Thank you @Lucy - this is pretty much what I want to try and break out of, right now its fees/sleep/wake/play/feed/sleep... Making that shift is hard because I'm always worried about trying to put her down and her being hungry 😭
@Lisa I know that’s what I thought as well but they do get used it pretty quickly. It’s really hard to get out of feeding to sleep as it’s something you are so used to doing but if her wake window is say 2 hours then she definitely won’t be hungry if you feed her straight after her nap.
I could have written this myself, nothing calms my baby down except the boob. He will literally thrash about, even if he's on my chest or in my arms he arches his back and kicks and throws his arms around screaming until I give him the boob and he stops instantly!
@Katie it's getting hard isn't it! I have absolutely loved all these cuddly moments as I didn't think I'd ever have another baby so I'm not exactly regretting anything but I just would really like it now if someone else could also deal with nap times sometimes 😅 I would kind of understand if she was just screaming because I'd left the room but that isn't even the case! I can literally be laying right next to her and she just gets so worked up!!
We had this exact issue, up until 10 weeks we co-slept with her and putting her down for a nap was like I was placing her in hot lava. She now does all her nap night/day in her cot. I still feed to sleep at night, but during the day I changed it so I feed her straight after a nap. So she had nap/feed/play/nap. This has helped to break the needing to be fed to sleep. I watch really close for sleepy cues and the second she rubs her eyes I take her up to sleep. She has exactly the same routine at every nap - we put her in a dark room, she has her rain sounds on and she goes into her sleep sack. So she knows it’s nap time.