As the most soothing way, milk sleep is the easiest to coax the baby to sleep, but it is also the easiest to rely on.
So milk sleep becomes very polarized, some people find it very convenient, breastfeeding sleeps, some people are very painful, have been feeding all night, sleep fragmentation.
So do you want to quit suckling? Under what circumstances should I quit? How can I quit?
What to quit
When is it not necessary to quit when breastfeeding?
-The baby's sleep does not have too many sleep association problems, and the amount of sleep is enough after drinking.
-Mom sleep ok, think milk sleep is easy, even if the nap is short, wake up frequently at night, you can also easily use milk to sleep, mom can continue to sleep.
- The age of the month is relatively old, and it will not be long before you plan to wean yourself.
When do I need to quit?
-Waking up frequently at night, mom's sleep is not good and she is already overwhelmed.
- The child's sleep condition is very poor, sleep is very fragmented and severely insufficient, small sleep is very short, and night awakenings are very frequent.
So in fact, the criterion for judging whether to abstain is very subjective, or the old saying, without the suffering of others, do not persuade others to be good. Some mothers have a relatively shallow sleep, and may not be able to continue to sleep again after waking up, and frequent night awakenings may make her completely unable to rest.
Of course, it must be emphasized that the baby wakes up at night, directly gives milk, and then sleeps directly on his own, which is a very dangerous move, it is best to wait for the child to fall asleep, take off the milk and then go to sleep.
And if you already feel too tired, you must consider quitting, because if you are too tired, you can't guarantee that you can stay awake.
Pantry gentle removal method
1. The baby drinks milk, closes his eyes to fall asleep, puts his hand to his mouth to remove the milk, and tells the baby that he can't drink milk and wants to sleep.
2. If your baby starts looking for milk, try patting him on the back or holding him to see if he can fall asleep.
3. If the baby resists and starts crying, put the milk back to soothe for 10-30 seconds, or until the baby is quiet again into a drowsy situation, and then remove the milk.
4. Repeat 1-3 times until the baby is asleep without milk.
Precautions and suitable for the crowd:
1. At the beginning, you can give milk until the baby just closes his eyes and falls asleep before removing the milk, and then shorten the time to give milk every few days, starting with 30 seconds and slowly reducing to 10 seconds.
2. This method is suitable for babies whose milk and sleep are linked together, that is, only if they want to sleep, they are willing to drink milk.
3. Babies with a gentle personality who are older or more moderate are also more suitable and can directly transition to pat sleep.
4. Only accept the mother's milk to sleep, sleep only to find the mother, who can not hold the more recommended this way.
5. If it has been pure milk sleep, hugging and patting sleep completely coaxed into sleep, you can gently pat your back (the strength of the body will not vibrate) for a week before starting to adjust, when feeding, to establish a constraint reaction, so that it will be easier to change to pat sleep.
6. This method does not have to be changed to completely quit milk sleep, for example, when falling asleep, you can still sleep with milk, but you can sleep at night. The condition of waking up at night has improved to the point that the mother can accept it. Generally, after the baby can accept the nap, the sleep condition will be much better than having to sleep with milk.
Substitution method
The substitution method is to replace milk sleep with hugging, and then slowly change the habit of hugging and sleeping.
(To change the sleep of hugging can see my other articles that improve sleep behavior)
Precautions and suitable for the crowd:
1. Suitable for babies who can sleep in a hug and can also sleep.
2. Suitable for other family members to help perform sleep, quit milk sleep when you can directly let the family take the baby to sleep.
3. Suitable for babies who are not bound to milk and sleep, and are not only willing to drink milk before going to bed.
4. Suitable for babies before the age of 1 or a little smaller weight, because the soothing strength of milk sleep is higher, it may take longer to change to hugging, physical strength is a problem, too heavy if it will be very difficult.
5. Changing to hugging and sleeping will not be easier or more problem-solving, but also gradually reduce the intensity of reassurance.
6. Suitable for babies who have not been able to succeed with gentle removal methods.
7. You can use a pacifier assist when you sleep, but of course you may have to quit in the end.
ICE Self-Asleep Exercises
1. Change the diaper after feeding the night milk, the purpose of this is to make the baby awake.
2. After the sleep ritual (hiccup), put down the baby and let the baby lie on his own to try to fall asleep.
3. If the baby is crying and feels unable to calm down, interrupt the exercise and coax the baby to sleep.
4. Try to see after each night milk, if the baby has appeared to be sleep dependent, and the night milk can not fall asleep on its own, then this method is not suitable.
5. Perform for 1-2 weeks to see the baby's condition, if you can also skillfully fall asleep on your own after night milk. Try to let your baby fall asleep on his own before starting to sleep at night.
6. If you can fall asleep on your own at night and stabilize, the daytime nap also tries to let the baby fall asleep on his own.
Precautions and suitable for the crowd:
1. Suitable for babies with a small age (before 4-6 months), the smaller the better, the lower the degree of sleep dependence, the easier it is to succeed.
2. You can use AESY, play with the way of eating and sleeping, and breastfeeding before going to bed.
For details, you can refer to the "ICE Self-Asleep Practice Method, The Baby Learns to Fall Asleep Independently Without Crying without Tears"
Joe's dad's broken thoughts
Don't violently wean sleep!
Don't sleep in isolation from weaning!
Quit milk to sleep, quit night milk, weaning the way to deal with breast milk is different, do not mix together a one-size-fits-all, which will make the baby very difficult to accept.
However, this practice is very common, and the impact on children is greater than the immunity to crying.