Feeding to sleep
Any tips on how to stop my LG feeding to sleep. She won't take a dummy and during the day for her naps will have a feed and then fall asleep in a pushchair or in the car but for her night sleep she will only fall asleep from a feed. She is BF and we have started to introduce formula so we will have stopped BF by the time I go back to work but I just don't know what the best way to get her to fall asleep without relying on me without using the cry it out method and to still get some sleep. If I do the put down and pick up if crys method (can't remember what it's called) she gets mad with me a squirms round trying to find a feed also what do I then do if she wakes in the night for a feed?
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@Tanya yeah I've tried patting, singing, shushing, white noise, projector almost everything I can think of
Ok so there are a range of other sleep training methods, here is an overview so you can see what might suit you. https://huckleberrycare.com/blog/sleep-training-infants-how-to-methods-and-tips Pick up put down only really works with younger babies I think. You would generally use the same method for night feeds, opinion varies on how many feeds a baby needs at what age. But you could just work on bedtime & naps and then night wakings may reduce anyway if she's waking to connect sleep cycles rather than because she's hungry.
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Have you tried any other ways of settling her in the crib like patting/shushing/singing? I stopped feeding to sleep and instead sang my babies to sleep, only if they were getting upset. So after a few weeks they could self-settle and didn't need the help anymore. If October baby wakes in the night crying I feed him, but i don't let him fall asleep on the boob. If he starts to I stop feeding him and put him down then he'll get himself to sleep, but he has been self-settling for about 2 months.