I've read so many posts here from mamas doing the SleepEasy technique, so... I've bought the book on my kindle and plan to start reading this weekend. Your stories of success have been inspirational!
I don't plan to start the technique until 5 1/2m (2 weeks) but I am nervous as my LO has been nursed to sleep at night since he was a newborn. My lil guy knows that after bath and baby massage comes food and then sleep.
Question for those moms doing the sleepeasy technique - what was your LO sleep pattern before doing this and how has your bedtime routine changed?
Re: Questions for Sleep Easy Mamas
We had already started a bedtime routine of bath, storytime, cuddle then I would give him a bottle until he would pass out-before the Sleepeasy tech. Now, we still do pretty much the same routine, but the bottle comes before cuddle time so he's not eating his way to sleep. Like PP, I lay him down drowsy, but awake. 5 minutes of some fuss(the crying has stopped by night 4 of sleepeasy), then he falls asleep. No paci, no bottle.
Before sleep easy, he would wake up 45 minutes after falling asleep, now he STTN. He also use to wake up every 1.5 hrs all night long, wanting cuddled and or a bottle, but he would only eat 2oz at best when a normal feeding is 7oz, so I knew it was a comfort feeding, not a hunger thing. The first few nights of sleepeasy, he woke for that comfort bottle about 5 hrs into the night. I gave it, but following the next day, I would just up his feedings by an ounce each one and then he no longer required that MOTN bottle. So we were able to eliminate that all together.
Naps before sleep training were hit or miss. Some days, he would take 2 1hr naps and a half hour nap...great! But other days, he would take 3 20 minute naps and that's it. Now, he takes a 2hr nap, then a 1 hour nap and a 30 minute late afternoon nap. bedtime is at 8:15 meaning he is in his crib at that time. We start our bedtime routine at 7:15 with the bath. He wakes up now between 7:00am and 8:00am like clockwork and his naps fall at the same times each day.10-12, 2-3 and 5:30-6pm. It definitely gave us more consistency.
Hope this helps!