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Breastfeeding & Comfort feeding?

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Caitlyn comfort feeds. She cannot get to sleep without my boob! This is making breastfeeding impossible to stop. I'm not stopping yet. She has some formula but I still can't get more than 2-3oz down her at a time. I will continue breastfeeding for now, I'm just wondering, when she gets older, how am I going to stop???? :(
 
the only way i can see to do it is CIO. but i know you dont like that, so i dunno!! katie always had to be fed to sleep until she was about 8 weeks when i decided to stop and we let her CIO. are you still co-sleeping? maybe it will be easier when she goes in her cot??
 
Erin was doing this too and had to go to sleep with the boob in her mouth. I managed to get her out of the habit when I got her going to sleep in her cot rather than with me at night (we didn't let her CIO). I still let her have a comfort suckle for a while after she finishes her feed, but then I have to take my nipple out (she'd stay there all day if I let her) - I usually just prop her up on my shoulder then and she settles. She's found her thumb though so will pop that in instead.
 
I think the only way to get around this is going to be when your finally ready. I agree that putting her in her own bed/room will help, as well as a really proper good bedtime routine. Babies thrive off routine (obviously not as newborns) and take comfort in routine. Right now Caitlins "routine" for bed is being breastfed to sleep because you let her and havent enforced any other kind of comfort item (thumb, soother, stuffed animal, blanket etc). Routines are comforting to babies, it makes them feel secure and developes trust.

Dont do it unless you are completely ready to stick to an effort and enforce it. You may have a rough couple nights when you do it, but they adapt quickly.
 
Yeah, I'm not ready yet atall. Just worried about when I am. Soooo scared to have her crying and not have my boob to come to the rescue! :dohh:
 
Does she have some kind of comfort item at all?? A blanket.... toy? If you remember that thing Ema has for Jacob ( the elephant )...I know alot of people who have them and their babies love it...

I would find something she likes and start integrating into her night sleeping. Then she will have something familiar when you do decide to go ahead.

Jasmine has a fuzzy pink blankie and a little stuffed horse... She plays with the horse allll the time so I make sure she has her blankie and horse in her crib. Although its easier for her because shes been in her crib since a week after she was born.

She has an ocean wonders aquaium too... It has things the baby can press themselves once they get big enough... It works like a charm when she is fussy. The little boy I babysit who is 17 months still loves his.
 
She loves her little Mickey Mouse stuffed toy, and will go get him before she sleeps. He is her comfort too. He'll be the main focus when I do stop I think. She also has a Winnie The Pooh lullaby thing that I put on before she falls asleep in my bed. So that, that can go in her bed with her when we do make the transition.

Trying to do what I can do make it easier when we do!
 
Well thats good! Im sure you will be suprised and she may do just fine.
 
I think thats how I was.. I wanted him in our bed more than he actually needed to be. Although we did let him CIO, after the 3rd day he was going to sleep with just a little whimper, and after the 5th day he was smiling at me after I gave him his "nigh night" kiss :cloud9:
Then last night, OH wasn't going to be home, so I brought him in my bed and we cuddled/slept there and then I woke up like 10 times through the night! Oh, it was awful! I love cuddling, but will probably opt out of sleeping with him again :lol:

Good luck when you do decide to change her up! Like ryder said, whatever you decide to do (CIO, etc) it will be really rough the first few days; and not JUST getting her to sleep.. it was hard for me to fall asleep without him the first couple of days (although great waking up & getting to sleep with no interuptions)!
 
Ok, Kaya was like this and I certainly wasn't ready to give up. You don't need to give up BFing or co-sleeping or let her CIO, what you need to do is get a good bedtime routine going - bath, teeth, story, feed. Once you've been doing it for a week or two, change the order of the story and the feed, so it's feed then story. If she falls asleep before the story, fair enough, but try to stop the feed when she's drowsy. Once she's going down ok with this, you can move the feed to before the bath. This is what worked for us.

Another method I've heard good things about is to feed until she's almost asleep and then gently remove the breast and put your finger under her chin, if she cries give her back the breast but keep trying to remove it with this method. The idea is that she learns to fall asleep on her own.

You also need to decide if you actually do need to get her to stop. If it aint broke why fix it? If it gets her to sleep quickly and easily why make things difficult for yourself? People often say 'oh don't feed them to sleep' with BF babies but most bottle fed babies are fed to sleep as well.

Sometimes I wish Kaya would just fall asleep with a feed, but tbh she's outgrown it. And that's the other thing, they do outgrow it, surprisingly quickly at times. A year or two from now and you'll be wishing you could just plug her in and get her to sleep, as you chase her back up the stairs for the 50th time! lol!
 

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