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Pennylane824
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My non-expert sleep training advice
Pennylane824
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I just want to share our experience with sleep training. We ferberized. Both of us read the book and became obsessed with doing it the ferber way. It worked some nights and didn't others. I kept asking what we were doing wrong.
I soon learned that what I was doing wrong was not modifying it for Madison. She likes to be rocked to sleep... so we do that. We don't ever let her fuss for more than 10 minutes because beyond that there is no calming her down. She likes the paci, so we kept that. We're lucky, she doesn't wake up needing the paci back and after a while she learned how to self soothe. We still use white noise because it works. The kid will now go to sleep wherever and it only happened once we started making "ferber's method" our own method.
So, my whole point and un-expert opinion is- read the books, educate yourself and be open to trying lots of things that work.
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Re: My non-expert sleep training advice
what's the gist on Ferber? Or do I HAVE to buy the book?
Our problem is we have a LO who looooves his mama :-) so doesn't want to sleep alone, nurses (or pretends to) 1,000 times a night, hates being swaddled and will reject the paci if he just wants me.
thoughts?
I think some of us are blessed with good sleepers. Madison was a pain in the a$$ almost the entire time she was awake for the first two months, but we could always count on the kid sleeping at night.
As far as keeping her asleep, I think the white noise is a big deal for us. Although I hear some babies hate it. We tried to cut it out, but it works so we kept it. Plus our dogs have a way of barking at random evening noises and the white noise blocks that out for her.