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17 wks: Are we slowly saying goodbye to nursing to sleep?

It has been a few days now, if not more than a week, that Brie refuses to feed to sleep.

I have always preferred to nurse my baby to sleep because it was the least stressful and also the fastest way for her to sleep - especially since she still feeds every 2 hours, spending a long time helping her to sleep often makes her wake up too early because she's hungry (again).

However, lately she's been changing the routine herself. Maybe because she's getting more efficient in feeding, and she doesn't want to keep nursing when she's already full (so much for comfort nursing!). So what she does when sleepy (and hungry) is feed for a few minutes then unlatch and wriggle and eventually look at me and chat - more like whine. That's when I pick her up and rock her to sleep. If she's tired enough but not overly, painfully tired, it will take 5-15 minutes before she sleeps.

This is very timely because I've been wondering if I should gradually stop nursing her to sleep. That is why I've introduced white noise whenever it's time for her to nap or to sleep.

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