What is Sleep?

eesnelling

I am having trouble with my eight month daughter sleeping in her own bed. My husband is strongly in agreement with letting her cry it out...I CAN NOT do that. I feel like the reasons she is crying is NOT for attention. Any way. We have tried letting her cry. We have tried conforting her. Sh will not sleep in her bed. She HAS to fall asleep nursing. And even then I can't move her to her bed without her waking up. I'm really frustrated and need help and advise.

Alissa9028

This is a really tough subject for me too. I feel the same as you, and my husband as yours. However, I needed to do something! I nursed my guy to sleep and then set him in his crib. He wakes up immediately but I let him cry for 5 minutes and then went back to get him. After a week I did 10 minutes and so on. It was hard but much easier than just letting him go until he fell asleep. He started getting used to the crib and by the 3rd week he started falling asleep on his own. He now sleeps for about 4 hours and when he wakes up I take him into our bed. It's a slow process but its working for us. At least we have some time now! Hope this helps!

Sbennett0417

Hi There! My little guy is 7 months and still refuses to sleep through the night so our doc said to teach him to fall asleep on his own and it would help.. It hasn't helped lol but it ha helped him go to sleep in his own bed. I could not let him cry it out either. Basically what we did at first was I put a chair right by his crib , first few nights once he was done feeding , moved him to his bed and stayed there to pay his back and have a little musical seahorse he holds . A few nights later I then would feed til he was almost asleep then put in his bed, pat him and played sea horse til he fell asleep , and then a few days later about 34 days for each set , I then put him to bed after bottle but before sleep , left the room for 5 minutes at a time . He did whine and cry a little the first night but I always went in after 5 minutes and rocked him etc til sleep. It took 30 minutes the first night and a few nights later only took 15 minutes , and now he falls asleep on his own after he has had his solid he bathes, we read a book, takes a bottle then I put him in his bed awake usually with his seahorse and most the time he goes to sleep on his own in his room . We slowly weaned him like that. I could handle a few minutes of crying but not much more . Now we are trying to break the middle of night feedings and that's impossible I feel like ! Hope that helps you. By staying in the room til she falls asleep and then several days into it taking yourself out of the room and back in , it helps show her your still there .

Aisham28

Have u read the baby whisperer? That helped me sooo much. My lo has no trouble since I read that book. I told my husband what to do and we stuck 100 to that plan. Took just a couple days but she was young then so she adapted quickly. At this age it may take a week or two. Id suggest picking a technique both u and ur hubby agree on and stick with it always. If you go wishy washy it wont work. GL!