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Me! I nursed lo1 to sleep until 9 months when she decided it didn't work anymore.
I nurse my 5.5month old to sleep, I'll keep doing it until she decides to stop

I nursed to sleep almost every night for 20 months when DS decided to wean. It worked for us.

DS is 34 months now and goes to sleep fine on his own. He has ever since he stopped nursing to sleep.

Almost 6 months. Nursed my first to sleep past 2. It worked, we loved it.

Me! Almost 5 month old....

I'm a retired member who will be coming out of retirement in May

I nursed DD to sleep for as long as it would work, probably 9/10 months. And even after that I still tried haha. She's 2.5 now and perfectly fine!

I did for almost a year! Around 10-11 months she would sometimes push away so I would just lay her down! At 12 months she basicly weaned from the session her self! I know it is not always that smooth and easy, but it can be!
I miss it dearly!!!@Applesandbananas: Amen!!!!!!

I am a former member too. Although I regret it since my 2y9m old still needs one of present when he falls asleep whereas my 12m old whom I never nursed to sleep falls asleep on her own in less than a minute or quietly talks to herself before falling asleep.

My twins are almost 21 months and I still tandem nurse them to sleep for naps and nighttime. We used to be able to lay them down without nursing all the way to sleep, but somehow that totally broke down and we are back to nursing completely to sleep. I find it cozy and relaxing, (especially at naptime when I just want to snuggle them and fall asleep under them!) but I also worry that we will never be able to stop!

Me! But my LO is only 3.5 months old.

@sarac: @Applesandbananas: @Kemma: For those of you who nursed your LOs to sleep for a long time, how did you ever stop? Was it when you weaned completely? Or did your LO just decide not to nurse one night? We've done sleep training before, but when they are nursing to sleep so fast and well, it's hard to see that as an option we'd go back to?

Not currently but I did with both of my kids. Not really by choice but they were both really lazy nursers so I just went with it. I nursed until about 10.5 months with number 1 and about 8 with number 2.

I nurse DD to sleep every night. She's 3.5 months. I really can't see a downside to doing it at the moment. She sleeps really well at night.

I nursed my little guy to sleep (or until extremely drowsy) until I weaned him at 19 months. Dad took over for the first few weeks post weaning and it went better than I expected. I needed to be out of sight at first & dad would read stories / rock a little until very tired. The first several weeks after weaning dad stayed in the room until he was completely asleep (shushing to reassure he was ok).

My thoughts were always keep doing what works until it doesn't and then figure it out

I was part of that club for months with DD... it stopped working when she was about 13 months. She grew out of it on her own, BUT we switched over to giving her a bottle of warm cows milk every night during lullabies until she was 2

For those who nursed their LOs to sleep past 4 months, did you find that baby started waking in the MOTN and would only be soothed back to sleep by nursing (even if perhaps they didn't need the feed)?

We faced that struggled with LO1 (starting around 4-5 months) so I had to push nursing earlier in our bedtime routine... trying to figure out what to do with LO2. I love nursing him to sleep though.

I stopped nursing before bed a week ago (13 months) and it was actually so easy! We're weaning and it was natural. I asked if he wanted to nurse and he didn't take out his pacifier, so I figured he was all set. We just read books and snuggled and I turned on his projector and white noise and sang a song. He's been going down for naps without nursing since 10 months though.

Enjoy your continued snuggles!

We did!

Me at 7 months.

I tried to break LO1 of the habit when we sleep trained but she would just fall asleep during our last nursing session no matter how early I did it. I gave up on that battle.