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MissLinz
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Sleep training
MissLinz
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What worked for you? I have read about Ferber, No cry, CIO, Baby Whisperer.
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Re: Sleep training
i really do not believe anything should be done before 6 months. we waited that out and by that point he was still waking but clearly hungry and i just couldnt let him cry while hungry.
i would suggest reading all the books as they are different philosophies and you may not believe in a certain theory.
do what is best for YOU, not what others tell you. honestly, sometimes kids just dont sleep for long periods of time. 6 hours is considered STTN so dont expect too much too soon.
We have been following some of the Babywise stuff from day one. Mostly the sleep-feed-wake schedule and the concept of full feedings. Maya sleeps from 8:30-7:30 pretty much without fail but if she gets up, we check on her paci first. She is eating every 3 hours during the day, is still swaddled for naps and night time and takes a 4.5 oz bottle at 7 and then another 1-2 oz top off right before we read to her and put her down.
Have not had to face CIO or anything yet but if she starts waking, we'll probably do that around 5 months or so. I was trying to deswaddle this week for naps but holy hell! This child is definitely not ready for cold turkey and with a one-arm wrap is still only good for an hour. We'll see if unwrapping her in a few weeks has a negative impact. BFF Ferbered her non-sleeping son and it worked for them. They've had to do it twice now after he fell off the sleep wagon when he was sick.
Thankfully we haven't had to try any methods other than sticking to a routine schedule. No matter how tired we are we do it. Since she was born we bathe her, bottle, then read, then we do goodnight moon so we say goodnight to everything. This triggers its night time. We put her to sleep in her crib not with us and we give her the pacifier. She use to wake up three times during the night, but then slowly went down to just once at 3am. After she turned four months we started giving her the pacifier everytime she would wake up and soon after that she started sleeping from 7:30pm to 7am. We do not let her nap after 4:30pm either and we make sure she eats at least 5-6 oz. But all this happened now that she is bit older and eats solids as that keeps their stomach full.
But I would not recommended weaning off night feedings if the baby is not ready. Talk to your ped about it.
We used "The Baby Sleep Solution" by Suzy Giordano at about 5 months. It has limited CIO, but it was one I could live with, because you only let the baby cry for between 3 and 5 minutes before going back in. But a large part of the method is also having a (flexible) routine schedule for baby, including naps and mealtimes. But I say flexible, because if your baby is hungry, baby needs to eat, etc. I personally don't believe in being a slave to the schedule. But DD goes to bed at 8:30 (used to be 11 pm or so) thanks to the training.
She used to sleep until about 6 or 7, eat, and go back to sleep until about 8 or 9 a.m., but for the past month or so, she has wanted a middle of the night feeding, at 3 or 4 a.m. Maybe we should be doing a refresher!
ETA: But like Wee said, do what is best for you and your baby. A method that works for another parent might not be tolerable for you, and vice versa. And not every child will hit that magical "12 hour of sleep" mark. We feed DD right before she goes to bed, but she just gets too hungry to sleep for 12 hours, and was a 10 hour baby. So take a look at a few different methods, and hopefully one will jump out at you.
I used babywise from day one on the recommendation of my SIL who has 6 kids (one on the way), so I figured she had tried everything else out and could make a good recommendation. Reese sleeps for 6 hours straight and has been for the last 2 weeks. I love it, its not alot of sleep, but having 6 hours straight is good for now.
I am not a slave to the schedule. Its nice to know that at 6:00pm we can go have dinner and know she wont wake up to eat until 8:00pm or so. I am very type A, so the babywise schedule has worked great for me, though its not for everyone. If she is hungry, we feed her so she is not suffering any and so far it has worked fine. We havent had to make her CIO, which I am glad about. She goes down for naps pretty easy and down to bed easy as pie. Maybe I am just lucky.
I agree with the PP. Use what works for you and what you are comfortable with. I know many people hate babywise or babywhisper, but I read all those books before she was born and made a decision after she was born to see what was going to work with her personality. Good luck Linz... email me if you have any questions.