Is your baby falling asleep on their own?
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No, we are 4 months next week and I feed to sleep for bed time and he’s formula fed. Every once and awhile for naps but I can usually just rock him to sleep for that
Here for the comments as well. My baby will be 9 months and I EBF as well. I’m a human pacifier all night
It’s totally biologically normal for babies to be nursed or fed to sleep! I also agree with temperament being the biggest factor in falling asleep independently as well. My daughter never fell asleep on her own as a baby without being nursed or rocked or snuggled, but my son does fall asleep on his own sometimes. Every baby is different and neither way is right or wrong, it’s just whatever works for your baby.
My baby is almost 4mon and I love when she falls asleep after nursing. I wasn’t able to nurse my older daughter so the fact that I can provide that comfort for this baby makes me so happy. I’ve never tried to get her to fall asleep on her own but I don’t think she’d be able to. I agree it’s mostly temperament but also age. These are still little babies who are still trying to figure things out. Shoot I’m almost 35 and need a sound machine to go to sleep 🤷🏼♀️
My baby was like that when I was EBF but he wasn't taking enough milk during the day, so I had to start pumping and adding bottles. Now that he's mainly bottlefed and I spent a couple weeks on it he can fall asleep on his own fairly often. If it's close to his next feed I'll give him a snack to fall asleep to.
@GMF yes 🥲 I have a 3 yo that id also want to do bedtime with as well but they are both on the same schedule
Seeing all the comments about temperament 😅 and I never knew. My 3 yo has been a wonderful sleeper but she is overall very independent, I wonder how this little one will be
@Gabriela can you somehow involve the baby in the toddler’s bedtime before you then go to put the baby down? That’s what we have to do here, lol I also have a (almost) 3 year old.
We started sleep training 2 weeks ago. I had to because I have a 2.5 year old and I couldn’t ever get him to sleep in the same room. The first day just naps and my husband did bedtime but now he’s consistently falling asleep in his bassinet drowsy but awake. I do a quick routine sometimes bottle if he’s hungry, diaper change, sleep sack, 5 minutes or so of rocking. Give him a kiss and put him in our room with black out curtains and sound machine. He’s usually asleep in 10 minutes of sucking on his hands. After a 2 hour wake window. We do a contact nap here in there for bonding or when the toddler is sleeping. Now is the time to start because they learn how to self soothe and transition to having more adult like sleep cycles
We mostly nurse to sleep. Sometimes if he doesn’t fall asleep while nursing, we rock him when he’s tired and sometimes he will fuss until he falls asleep
He also falls asleep in the swing when tired but he will sometimes fuss during that too and then will fall asleep
Being able to fall asleep independently is largely due to temperament. My 3 year old doesn’t go to sleep on his own. Is there a reason you don’t want to nurse to sleep?