When a baby falls
asleep during breastfeeding, he does not learn to comfort himself and fall asleep on his own.
Although it's normal when babies fall
asleep during breastfeeding, there are some cases that parents should wake them up.
Without being conscious of making Mom's bed safe in case she should fall
asleep during breastfeeding, this sleeping arrangement could pose risks for baby.
Not exact matches
Babies have also been known to fall heavily
asleep during or after
breastfeeding, reacting to the sedating side effects of the drug.
There have been many times
during a
breastfeed where my baby was sleeping peacefully while continuing to «eat» yet once I got another let - down (where my milk starts flowing quickly again) they would promptly unlatch and stay
asleep in my arms.
Babies need frequent cuddles and
breastfeeds, including to fall
asleep at night, throughout the night and to take naps
during the day.
Then they will start to nap for a shorter time period and will need more frequent
breastfeeds during the nap or night to stay
asleep.
My only problem is she wakes up between 2 - 3 times
during the night for
breastfeedings and I am concern about her teeth because she falls
asleep while
breastfeeding, I even notice that there is a little yellowing behind her teeth.
I'm so happy that you mentioned that when your daughter was eighteen month she still nursed to fall
asleep and woke up
during the night to
breastfeed.
Yet unfortunately what many women hear is that their baby should be sleeping through, that babies need to learn how to sleep longer, fall
asleep without
breastfeeding and that the crying or «protesting»
during the sleep training is what we are supposed to do.
Do not
breastfeed during the night substitute with a warm bottle or warm water in a sippy cup, every night make his little mattress further from your bed and each night cut his nursing down and start laying him on his mattress awake so he can fall
asleep himself.
Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs
during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving
breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother,
breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if
asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.