08/09/2025
Have you noticed that feeding our little ones to sleep is blamed for so many sleep complaints!
But here’s the thing: if feeding to sleep is working for you. You don’t have to stop. Your child will stop feeding to sleep at some point. Take it from a mum whose little one would always settle much quicker with a bottle.
Breast milk contains a wonderful mix of sleep inducing hormones, and sucking by itself is really soporific. It’s often the quickest and most natural way to settle your little one, so it can be really hard to stop them falling asleep while feeding even if you wanted to!
Now, I’m not saying you have to feed to sleep, but what I am saying is:
🌙 if you are feeding to sleep & you’re happy, then keep going.
🌙 if your little one is waking overnight, don’t immediately blame feeding to sleep
🌙 don’t stop feeding to sleep unless it’s becoming a problem for you, or if you want to
🌙 don’t stop feeding to sleep because somebody else has told you to
🌙 remember that feeding to sleep is never a bad habit. It’s biologically normal!
