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If you Ferberized-?'s

Ernie52408Ernie52408 member
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Did you start with night sleep, then tackle naps? Or did you do a full blitz and tackle both at once?

Also, did anyone break the swaddle at the same time? DS is addicted to the Miracle Blanket. I've been trying to wean for about a month with no luck. I'm figuring on just deswaddling cold turkey when we start Ferber.

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  • weberm05weberm05 member

    Well I quit swaddling at like 3 months so can't help you there.  But we did quit that cold turkey

    But I started ferber around 8 1/2 months and we won't full blown naps and night sleeping!

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  • katlizabethkatlizabeth member
    We did arm out with the swaddle.  Then the other. Actually we tried that and realized that she wasn't sleeping any worse without it, so we ditched it.  It was like 3-4 days).  We haven't done ferber with dd, because she hasn't needed it (knock on wood!!)  With ds, we only did a modified for night sleep at about 5 months.  And we only did it to get him to sleep.  We dealt with night wakings in other ways.  Naps were different too. 
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  • leneae10leneae10 member

    We quit swaddling around 4 mos becuase he was rolling over.  We went cold turkey with a sleep sack.  If your LO isn't rolling over at night, you could do arms out, then switch to sleep sack?

    At 5 months, we started Ferberizing (no more than 2 mins crying at a time, and really it was just fussing/whining).  Took away paci at 6 mos, even though he was never really attached to it. He'd suck to fall asleep, and once he was thoroughly out, he'd spit it out.  He didn't look for it again.

    We actually started with naps!  I started watching the clock and put him down around 2 hours of wake time.  Once he started napping better, he started sleeping better at night.  He self weaned a night feeding; I think by 5 months.  Since then he slept 8 hours straight with 1 feeding, at 6 months he started 10-12 hours with no feedings. 

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  • Ernie52408Ernie52408 member
    Fortunately DS has no interest at rolling at night, but it's the arms out that is killing me on the deswaddle. He refuses to go to sleep by himself if his arms are free. I've been trying with one arm out and at best he will wake up every 1-2 hours. A month later we haven't made any progress. At this rate I will be swaddling him until college.
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  • chardonnay24chardonnay24 member

    We did everything - naps and nights. I didn't want him to get confused. Naps are still not perfect (for example, he can only fall asleep in his crib with his security blanket and glowing seahorse thingie) but a vast improvement over what they were.

    We cut the swaddle and pacifier at the same time. He was just over 7 months and no longer fit the Miracle Blanket. We were still using it for his arms but it wasn't as terrible as I expected. He sleeps on his tummy, though, which I think helps him settle his arms.

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  • meltoinemeltoine member

    Have you read Ferber's book? He answers both of these questions in the first couple of chapters. Please don't do Ferber without reading the book. 

    But to answer your question, you have to do nights and naps at the same time if you are truly using the Ferber method. You also have to break any sleep associations that LO cannot recreate for themselves, i.e. swaddling and paci.  

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  • Jacqui105Jacqui105 member
    I did only nights first and stopped swaddling at the same time. It worked great. For us we figured she would be up crying some, so might as well just do it all at once rather than get sleep training done and then regress to waking/crying to get used to no swaddle. PP mentions Ferber does naps and night at once. That may be so, but as with all baby books conflicting, Happy Sleep Habits book suggets basically daytime sleep habits have no effect on nighttime sleep habits. So we combined the two books and night trained only at 5.5 months. It did not hurt her nighttime sleep at all to not be ferberized for naps. I just now started putting her in the crib for some naps and ended up not even needing to do more sleep training. So, you can do it all at once, but my experience is, if you only do one and get that settled before tackling the other, it'll be ok.
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