sleep help...again and slighty desperate!

chocolatechippy

i feel like a broken record!  i've come to this board for help before, so hopefully you can all help again!

DD will be 9 months next week and weighs somewhere around 20ish pounds. She has never STTN, and only a handful of times have woken up once (last week she did that 3 nights in a row...it was amazing!). Last night she woke 4x and i have instilled the habit of having to nurse her back to sleep. She goes down at night awake, and is able to fall asleep.

I have done sleep training in the past, and have gotten down to a 2-3am feeding. But slowly that feeding time keeps moving up until she is waking at 12 and 4, and then 10, 12, 4, etc.  Simply said, I am done.  I am beyond exhausted and I have to get up at 5:30 everyday and work 40 hours a week.

I'm not even sure where to start. I did Ferber with my first child, and it was fantastic!  But I am not sure how to wean out all of these nursing sessions without confusing her.  Should I go cold turkey and just let her CIO with checks until 6am and hope she picks up on it?  Help!  please

Summer in CT

Not sure if this is helpful or not, but you are definitely not alone!  My son isn't sleeping through the night either (he is 9 1/2 months).  He wakes up 3+ times a night still.  I've been FF since 4 months and I was finally able to cut out

DCMerged

No do not go cold turkey from feeding her multiple times a night to nothing and no responses. Even Ferber says it is cruel to do this. Since you did Ferber with your first do you have the book? There is a chapter on night feeding and how to phas

The Pippins

You're not alone. I have a 9 month old who still does not sleep through the night. He's also teething so I take that into consideration. But I have not figured out how to get rid of the middle of the night feedings and I do work full time. Coffee has beco

ephillips1981

I know your pain! I am so sorry and I know the exhaustion you feel.  My Lo is 11 months old now, but at 8 months I had had enough.  I was still nursing then and I cut it down to twice a night first.  I made a pact not to get up with her bf

desertsun

I tried a lot of different books/methods for helping my LO sleep. He had a hard time going to sleep on his own.

We're down to one MOTN feeding and he goes to sleep with minimal fussing at bedtime and for naps.

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