Re-sleep training?

bermybabe68

Has anyone who's had to sleep train had to do it again? DD has been doing great since 4 months old. Sure she cried for a little bit here and there when I'd leave the room but otherwise she'd sleep roughly 7pm - 6am and wake up happy. Just over a week ago she started waking up 1-2 times though the night and be up for 2 hours. Turned out to be teething and she cut another tooth. She's doesn't appear to be teething still but freaks the flip out if I leave her to fall asleep in her own now ... even though she's almost asleep when I turn to walk out her door. I decided to let her cry it out tonight check on her every 10 mins and calm her before leaving again). I feel like a big ol' pile of poop now. I swear it's harder this time than it was before. I really hope this works, and fast. My sweet girl hasn't had a decent nights sleep in a while and she's waking up still tired in the morning.

smilingeyes2308

We haven't had to re-sleep train but I have read numerous times that you may have to re-sleep train after any illness/teething or big change (moving, switching rooms, etc). 

I will say that DD has gone through phases. We started sleep training at 6 months and each week is different. Most nights she will fall asleep without any tears or fussing, some nights she will cry for 10 minutes - usually no more than that.

She's never STTN since 3mo. It's her normal to wake up 2x/night, sometimes more, sometimes less. There was a period of time about 3 weeks ago that she was waking up every 2 hours and would be really hard to get back to sleep. She was teething so I didn't let her CIO - a huge tooth popped through (she has a fused tooth so basically 2 teeth popped through at the same time). 

No doubt it will be harder now since she is older. 

We're moving next week and I'm so worried that she will need to be "re-trained" as well. Right now we share a room so it will be a new place and a new room for her. 

Don't feel bad! It's hard to hear our babies cry but it's important for them to get good sleep as well!

RedDDD

We are sleep training now.  DD was a great sleeper from the beginning and about 6-8 weeks ago started waking 2 times a night.  Between family staying with us from out of town and my son getting hand foot mouth we hadn't had a good opportunity to be hard core on it.  So we are starting again tonight.  Im just going to work on the first wake up for now and work to push her longer.  It has a lot to do with the fact she needs to learn to put herself back to sleep and that takes practice.  

I also think this age is hard.  There is a lot going on.  Teething, crawling, trying to walk, trying to talk....all of this brain development disrupts sleep.

UpsideDownFrown

Yup, he was always a great sleeper but recently has started to freak when I put him down. I still just leave the room and he is usually out within 5-10 minutes. We will usually just let him cry if it's more of a whimper than an all out scream

amy11401

We had to do CIO when we went from the Rock N Play to the crib.  Then a couple months later we had to do CIO in the middle of the night to try to decrease middle of the night wakings/feedings.  I feel like this is one we are still constantly still working at. He will go through a week or 2 where he sleeps through the night then another week he will wake up at least once or more throughout the night and often cry for awhile.  I am thinking teething and other developmental milestones may be a factor.  Another issue may be that I still initially nurse him to sleep usually....sometimes he does go down drowsy though.  

barnwife

I once read something like "don't like how your child is sleeping. That's okay...wait a couple weeks and it will change. Like how your child is sleeping? Too bad, that will change in a couple weeks."

Three kids in, I believe there is truth in that. Therefore, I try not to stress/worry about sleep unless it's really awful. (And for J., as a baby it was. I can count on one hand the number of times he slept longer than 45 minutes in his first year of life.) S. though is happily waking twice a night generally to eat. And I am fine with that.