I'm curious to see when your LOs stopped eating right before bed.
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R is 4.5 months old and nurses right before she goes into her sleep sack.
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E is 13 months and he still drinks a bottle right at bedtime (his only bottle of the day). In the next month we're planning on quitting this and replacing it with reading 2-3 books.
ETA: He's not asleep when the bottle is done. He finishes the bottle in the rocking chair with daddy in the dark and then DH sings him a few more songs while they cuddle. He goes into his crib awake.
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We started at 9 months when something I read about getting your kid to STTN (on trouble me tots, I think) said that you must put a break between milk and bed to sleep train. Who knew? M now gets into her PJs and nurses at 7:00, then we do our normal bedtime routine (kiss daddy good night, get into sleep sack, turn on white noise, sing bedtime song - whole thing takes 2 minutes) at 7:30. She had zero trouble adjusting and it *did* help her put herself back to sleep in the middle of the night without needing to nurse.
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R is 8 months and I still give her a bottle in her sleep sack. Then we sing a song but I am going to hate to stop it cause it helps her relax and get in nighty nite mode.
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@swedishfish: we still nurse right before bed at 11.5m with no plans to stop any time soon unless its his idea. He doesn't nurse to sleep, and whether he goes in the crib awake or drowsy has no effect on his night sleep an he normally STTN.
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At 11.5 months M started refusing her bedtime bottle. She got to the point where she would start crying when she saw the bottle and just point to her crib. It took us a few days but we got the message!
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What do you define as right before bedtime?
Since 10 weeks, we haven't nursed/fed Xander immediately before bed. I would nurse, then do bath, diaper change, stories, and then bed. Is that considered right before?
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@Adira: nope! I'm thinking if there's a break between then it's not really right before bed? Am I making any sense or does it just make sense in my head?
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@swedishfish: Okay, that's what I thought too, but wanted to double-check! So we did EASY, so we pretty much never fed Xander right before bed!
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We're still nursing to sleep at thirteen months
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Also curious about this...I still nurse before bed at 12.5 months and I guess I will do it as long as he wants? If he drank cows milk I would maybe try to switch to a cup of cows milk during after dinner if I wanted to wean from nursing.
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I am still nursing before sleep at 6 months. Sometimes he falls asleep, sometimes he doesn't. Sleep is the same either way.
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I still nurse to sleep at 6.5 months. It so far hasn't affected her night time sleep. She's been sleeping through the night (for the most part) since 9 weeks or so. I have no plans to stop unless this changes!!!
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T is 18 months and still gets a small bottle before bed (his only of the day, and he does not nurse). He's a peanut and we felt he could use the extra calories. But we're getting rid of that in the next week
ETA: since before 12 months old he never fell asleep at the bottle - it relaxes him and certainly helps him go down more
quickly but he is wide awake when he goes in his crib. He has sttn consistently since 8 months so I don't think it has impacted his sleep, though I do dread weaning the bed bottle! -
12 months today and he is still nursing to sleep. although since around 11 months he started sleeping 11 hours straight - not every night, but more often than not and we are quite pleased with it!
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We feed C a bottle right before we put him down to sleep. Sometimes he falls asleep while eating, sometimes he goes down drowsy but awake.
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We stopped recently, a little past 6 months, to seeif it would help her sleep better at night. It helped with naps, but she still wakes up a lot at night.
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We offer a sippy cup of milk a bit before bedtime routine. Sometimes, I offer it when I'm changing him on the changing table. We brush his teeth after, then do bedtime routine of books, snuggles, then into crib awake.
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