Training breastfed baby to self soothe??

[Karenb]

So... I have been feeding my baby to sleep which has worked fine for us, going to bed at nine... Now baby proving she needs to go to bed much earlier and I am struggling with this! I have tried feeding her until awake but drowsy and putting in crib but she just cried. I have tried feeding to sleep but she wakes and cries when I move her, any tips please??

 

[babyscotcher]

Bottle fed but our little one was used to be fed to sleep. The first few nights I stopped feeding and then rocked him to sleep to get him used to not being fed. Then after a few days I started putting him down but keeping my hand on him and shh ing him. Then sitting in the same room and shh ing. Seems to have worked with getting him to go down.

My issue is getting him to stay down for the night, lol.

Good luck with whatever you go with. I had always been told in the past and thought myself that the best thing was to let them cry it out but didn't work for me or my boy so whatever you choose to go with know that you don't need to justify it to anyone. X

 

[dolly26]

My lo is bottle Fed but she is still sort of awake when put to bed so I put on some white noise and 5 mins later she is fast asleep. Hope it helps x

 

[Coletteypie]

Karen we use the Ewan dream sheep to get her to sleep. Used to rock her till she was almost asleep and then lie her down with the sheep playing soft music. Slowly we have been able to put her down less and less drowsy. Now we can just put her in fully awake and she goes to sleep on her own. Takes a Wee bit of time, and we had a few nights where it took up to an hour of picking her up to soothe and when she would go mental etc. But eventually she learned what her crib and the musical sheep was and stopped fighting it.

Good luck xx

 

[Belfa]

I second Ewen the sheep! Alex is usually asleep by the end of his little round of noise. I will admit that we are in the habit of giving him a bottle before bed but I will try to wean him off this when we move to solids as I don't think he will last the night without that extra top up x

 

[Beckyb1991]

I had to use dummies with my little girl xx

 

[El1en]

I had this issue a little while ago, I was trying to get her to sleep sooner and I could feed her to sleep at 7.30 but I couldn't put her down until her next feed at 10/10.30. Using her mobile started helping but then my oh broke it so I found some lullabys on YouTube I play to her, it usually takes about 6-8mins for her to fall asleep. If this fails I lie on my bed next to her crib and read to her for a while

 

[Karenb]

Thanks, I have Ewan but she doesn't seem fussed by it and her crying is much louder lol! Will be more pesistent though and keep trying, thanks for replies xx

 

[purplecandy]

Try warming her bed up before putting her down in it, the midwife suggested that to us. We have a little teddy that goes in the microwave so just sit it in the Moses basket for a few mins before putting him down so it's warm x

 

[Rooster30]

My HV told me with both my children to take them to bed, tell them it's bedtime, give them a kiss and leave. Depending on age return after a minute (if very young), if they are crying and comfort them leave and repeat process until asleep. It doesn't work for everyone though. It was a process doing this with my son when he was 8/9 months old as he just would not self settle, it worked after about a week and he's super now. I think we just got lucky with our daughter though. She sucks her thumb to settle herself - thankfully nap/sleep time is the only time she sucks her thumb!