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11 month old sleep training.... help!

bino63bino63 member
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My daughter wants what she wants.... to be rocked with a bottle. We have tried other methods of sleep training other than CIO. And it has not worked.

Last night we started with supportive crying with routine check ins and she cried for an hour and 15 minutes. My husband and I cannot continue to rock her and feed her because she wakes in the middle of the night for hours expecting the same thing. We are just spent!

 I need to hear from other mothers that she will learn and get better. What age do you think she will just go into her crib and understand its bedtime... and not cry?!? Maybe this is just a dream land I live in. I miss my baby in my arms... but I know she can't do this forever.

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Re: 11 month old sleep training.... help!

  • hopecountshopecounts member

    the first night is typically the worst, hang in there and be consistent. She's old enough to understand cause and effect now so if you keep it up she'll learn that when she goes in the crib it's time to sleep and Mommy/Daddy isn't going to rock her.

    After a few nights of Ferber DD started going down w/o a peep and still does.  If you didn't read the book I'd reccomend it, there's all sorts of advice and guidance on sleep that's helpful.

    Also, watch her carefully for sleep cues and make sure you aren't putting her down to early or late. The key for DD was learning the right time to get her down, at least until she got the hang of putting herself to sleep, now it doesn't matter unless it's way too early or late.

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  • Dreamsicle23Dreamsicle23 member
    If you stay strong I bet it will be drastically better within a week. You can't give in at all though...even if night 2 or 3 is worse.
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  • AlXaNgElAlXaNgEl
    I'm in the same boat as you.  We can't let DD CIO cause DS's room is next door and he's such a light sleeper.  It sucks cause I know we have to be hard with her on this, but the last thing I want at 3am is both kids up and fussing. 
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  • MrsJOSEnADRIMrsJOSEnADRI
    Hang in there!  We are on Day 3 and it's going much better than we anticipated.  We had given up in the past because we started with shorter intervals and it just seemed to upset her more.  Now, she either falls asleep within 5 minutes or I just have to go in once.  I'm hoping that eventually she goes back to STTN with me putting her down awake.  She used to do it so I know she's capable of it, but she's been off for the past couple of months due to the new milestones, teething, a cold, traveling, etc.  It all threw her off and we starting picking up some habits we're not comfortable with continuing (i.e. rocking her to sleep, sleeping in our bed, etc.)
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  • DavesGirl9019DavesGirl9019
    My DD had been sleeping with us until about 11 months old. Her baby brother was due to arrive in another month. Against everything I had wanted to do to get her sleep trained.. I put her down for her afternoon nap and let her CIO. For 3 hours I got busy and cleaned the house, took a shower etc. She finally slept... for only 30 minutes, but she has slept in her bed and went right to sleep for almost a year now. I wouldn't have done it different if I had to do it over again.
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