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The good news is that for Lala, we were finally able to break the habit. The bad news is that it didn't happen until about 21 months! Of course, we didn't sleep train, so maybe that had something to do with it?

My baby can fall asleep on her own with a pacifier. Have you tried a paci?

That's what I was going to say... a pacifier. It's the only way that DH can really take over naps/nighttime. I've had him helping out with nighttime since DS was a newborn.

My LO used to always nurse to sleep. My husband was able to get him to sleep, but LO would cry for a while (not cry it out, which we never did, crying in my husband's arms). Eventually, there was less crying and now we switch off nights. I still nurse him to sleep about half the time. If he doesn't fall asleep nursing, I hold him or pat his back or whatever until he falls asleep. He is gradually moving away from nursing to sleep at 10 months, and we never had to do anything to break the habit. We did not use a pacifier.

I think some babies will eventually grow out of the habit without any intervention. He cries more when someone other than me is putting him to bed, but that's okay. He is definitely able to fall asleep when I'm not there, it's just in a different way.

It stopped at 3.5 months when we sleep-trained.

Early on I would nurse LO until he was super super drowsy and then I would either put him down or pass him off to DH to put him down. We gradually put LO down less and less drowsy.

At 10-11 weeks we started giving a bottle of breastmilk at bedtime and DH would put LO down in his crib wide awake. There was o crying involved although there has been a handful of times where LO has cried at put down. The longest it ever lasted was 20 minutes.

With that said, nursing to sleep at bedtime isn't a bad thing! It's just when it is the ONLY way your LO can fall asleep (or fall back asleep) when it can cause a problem.

I do the EASY schedule, even before bed, so we almost never nurse to sleep (only if he is really fighting sleep, but 95% of the time he goes to sleep without it)

Can I ask why you don't want to use a pacifier at bedtime? That is the ONLY time we use it, and so now LO associates it with sleep. We pop it in her mouth and she is OUT!

I am literally on day two of CIO sleep training, but that seems to be the only way he's stopped needing to nurse to fall asleep.