Parents who had the same worry, in their own words
“And Sam worked with us through that stage, and we never actually pulled any night feeds. Naomi just kinda just dropped them on her own.”
“And literally on night two, she was sleeping and only getting up once to eat.”
“He’s an exclusively breastfed baby, so he woke up for night feedings. He woke up for comfort, anything you can imagine.”
“We were paying for night nurses to help us basically survive because he was doing, I don’t know, five feeds a night.”
“We transitioned from co-sleeping and nursing all night to having a baby that’s sleeping like ten hours in her crib alone.”
“She sleeps, you know, eleven to twelve hours through the night.”
Why feeding is such a common worry
Lots of parents assume that sleep training requires cutting out night feeds. If your baby still needs to eat at night, or you are breastfeeding and want to continue, that belief can make any kind of sleep help feel off the table.
Among the families in this video are exclusively breastfed babies, babies who were always nursed to sleep, and babies who needed a bottle to settle. What they share shows that feeding and better sleep can go hand in hand.
Our approach to night feeds
How night feeds are handled depends on your baby’s age and is set in your custom plan. Dr. Sam writes a plan that fits around how your baby feeds, by breast, bottle or both, and the bootcamp-style coaching ahead of night one explains where feeds fit into your nights. Then come daily 1:1 check-ins, with naps coached until they are solid.
The families in this video began in very different places: five feeds a night, nursing to sleep every single time, co-sleeping and nursing through the night. Actually Sleeping wrote a separate plan for each one, and every family kept its own feeding choices.
More from client families
All 129 client video reviews are on the reviews page. To learn more about combining sleep and breastfeeding, read sleep training while breastfeeding. Before booking, you can also check that the company is legit.
On the free consultation, walk us through your baby’s feeds and we will show you how a plan would fit around them.
Want us to fix this for your baby?
Actually Sleeping is 1:1 coaching: Dr. Sam writes your baby’s sleep plan, you get bootcamp-style coaching before night one, and we check in every day until it is working. We have coached 700+ families, earned 129 video reviews, and offer a written guarantee: 8–12 hours through the night within 14 days, or a full refund.
Common questions
Do I have to stop feeding at night?
Not as a one-size rule. How night feeds are handled depends on your baby’s age and is set in your custom plan. A number of families in the reviews kept their night feeds while sleep got better, and one mom says her daughter gave them up by herself.
Will I be able to keep breastfeeding?
Yes. Plenty of the families in the reviews were breastfeeding, some with babies who always nursed to sleep. Dr. Sam builds the plan around how you feed, and nothing in it requires you to stop breastfeeding.
Is it a problem that my baby feeds to sleep?
It is among the most common starting points you will see in the reviews. Dr. Sam’s plan accounts for how your baby falls asleep now, feeding to sleep included, and coaching before night one prepares you for exactly what lies ahead.