Sorry, me again, about sleeping and feeding...
How do I stop having to feed a two and a half year-old to sleep?
And then move towards him having a more independent bedtime generally?
It didn't matter very much before his sister arrived, but it's getting tricky needing someone to look after her while I get him to sleep. He has so far resisted attempts at establishing a routine leading up to feeding - starts throwing bedtime books on the floor, getting cross with songs after a while... He does have a bedtime toy, but that's about it. I have once or twice managed to get hi to go to sleep just lying quietly on my lap having fed for a while, but only once did I then manage to get him into his cot afterwards without him waking up.
He has amazing abilities in terms of staying awake at night without being fed, incidentally. Haven't yet found the limits, but latest was about midnight. He doesn't usually wake up at night now. Maybe once a week, or a bit less. He's never had a dummy (pacifier), or fed from a bottle, and it seems a bit perverse to introduce either now.
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