Breastfed Baby and Self Soothing

Hey,

Sleep training aside.

Just want to know if anyone breastfeeding has a baby that learnt to self sooth on there own with no help from the breast or a dummy or any kind of sleep training. I have a five month old who wont take a dummy and cant be soothed at the moment unless nursing. Patting, rocking, shooshing, finger, music, motion just dont work. Will she as she gets older just start putting her self to sleep when she is tired. I'm fine with nursing her to sleep if thats what she wants but only until about 9 months or so until i stop breastbeeding.

Please share your thoughts.

I nursed my DD to sleep ever since she was born and never thought of how I would get her to sleep when it was time to wean her. She is now 14 months old and has been off the breat for just over 14 months and will not self settle!! I have to pat her too sleep everytime. I really think they have to learn young otherwise it is really hard for them. Your little one still might be young enough to learn but my DD wasent sad I am hopeing when she is 2 she will be older and able to understand that it is bedtime and she doesnt need me there to go to sleep. When I have my next bub I will know not to BF to sleep! smile

Sorry me again.... I actually think it is easier for them to learn when they can’t sit up yet or especially stand like me DD could. I am sure she would have been able to cry herself to sleep if she wasn’t standing... That’s just what I think smile

My second baby do, since about 3 months, but have to say there were some crying involved but with a toddler to keep me busy as well I simply couldn't rock my baby to sleep everytime so had to put her down in a cot to sleep. She refused a dummy and doesn't really suck on her thumb but do suck on her hands sometimes for comfort. I feed her when she wakes up, have a play and give another top up when its bedtime, she gets calm and drowsy when feeding, then have a quick burp and cuddle and put her down in the cot, she usually fusses a little bit, I can hear her make noises or she grizzles for a few minutes then falls asleep. Night time she just feeds and basically asleep when she finished feeding. She is 6 months now and I just find she falls asleep a lot quicker without me than she would if I try patting or shooshing her, she just starts laughing at me and want to play.

The most important thing I would say is to put her down when she is tired but not overtired. If she reaches the point of being overtired it will be very very difficult for her to settle herself to sleep.

hello , yes my little one starting helping her self go to sleep at 3 months old.
I stopped rocking and all that as was not working
just let her cry but go back in every 5 minutes or so and not let her get worked up
we had about a month of her not liking it but then we had a whole month of happy baby no cry for sleep time ...yahhh but then teething started.
lol

DS2 did. He was fed/rocked/held to sleep consistently until he was about 5ish months old. Sometimes he wouldn't feed/be rocked to sleep so would pop him in bed and he'd drift off. Then when he was about 6 months he would just muck around if brought into our bed until put back in his. When he was 11 months old he night weaned so wasn't feeding to sleep at all, ever, even after I tried to start again after a bought of illness saw none of us sleeping at all! blink

No crying, no 'training', just a boy who when he was ready was happy to put himself to sleep. smile So the long and short of it was that by 6ish months he didn't need 'help' to go to sleep, and when he did it was usually only once or twice in the middle of the night; he could consistently get himself off to sleep in the day fine from then..though I always helped if he was amenable.