Sleeping or hungry

My 11wo baby has taken to sleeping on the breast. When he gets hungry and sleepy, he sleeps when given the breast, gets upset when I unlatch. BUT he drinks when given bottle. Anyone experienced this managed to resolve it? How was the process #pleasehelp

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maybe he is comfort nursing , not really hungry. both my babies were like this. first baby we managed to push a pacifier to him. second baby rejected pacifier and he stopped comfort nursing after few months. we gave him some water and he will felt asleep while drinking the water

Anonymous

3y ago

thank you.. while comfort latching is a great thing to give some comfort, I hope this will end soon coz the sleep for both of us is so bad..

babies are programmed biologically to sleep on the breast, because it’s comforting for them. you can do a search about it. have to lightly nudge baby up to continue drinking

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Anonymous

3y ago

and he just keeps waking for comfort latch every hour I suppose

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