How to Stop Feeding Your Baby to Sleep — Gently, and Only If You Want To
Feeding to sleep is the statistical norm, not a bad habit. If you want to change it, the gentlest route is to move the feed earlier and fade the help over a week or two.
Feeding to sleep is the statistical norm, not a bad habit. If you want to change it, the gentlest route is to move the feed earlier and fade the help over a week or two.
Bedtime fading, fading the feed-to-sleep link, camping out, graduated checks — what each one actually is, what the trials found, which ages they apply to, and why the method you can do consistently beats the “best” one.
If you only change one thing about your baby’s sleep, change this. A short, consistent bedtime routine is the best-supported single intervention in infant sleep — and most of the benefit shows up within three nights.