Routine

I may have inadvertently created a monster. Our nighttime routine is in place. I am not going to say yet if it is a good place or a bad place. It is in a place that works for us right now. It is in a place that allows us all a maximum amount of sleep at night.

While we are still in the living room, everyone is sleeping well! The way I am able to get Clay to sleep right now is laying down beside him and letting him breastfeed until his heart (and belly) is content. It does not bother me at all, I quite enjoy our time, but he will NOT go to sleep any other way. He has to be attached to me, eating or not, to let his little eyes fall asleep. He then stays attached to me, quite literally, almost all night. When he is not attached to me feeding he uses my breast as a little pillow. Fits his head quite nicely, I might add.

I'm just wondering if everyone that has strictly breastfed has experienced this or if I have indeed created this monster. Either way, I'm not sure how to break this habit or if we even need to. Because, like I said, it works.

During the day is a different story. He eats and I put him down and he sleeps beautifully. I am thankful that he has differentiated his days from his nights. I know that he can soothe himself to sleep because he does it during the day, but the second the sun goes down he forgets that he can go to sleep without me soothing him. (Side note - by soothing himself I don't mean crying, he roots around, finds his hand to suck on and falls quickly to sleep.) Maybe he knows it's soothing to me knowing that he is right beside me at night also. Who knows?

We are not changing anything for now. We are learning as we go. And we are enjoying every minute of the lesson!