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Babies: 6 - 9 Months
lindsayandwillis
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7 Mo and up 2x each night... Mama needs some sleep!
lindsayandwillis
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Ok, so I'm the first to admit that we aren't in a good routine, mostly because we've tried all sorts of things to get her to STTN none of which have worked. She just went on formula 2 weeks ago after being BF for the first 6 mo (which is why I thought she wasn't sleeping b/c the B-milk digests more quickly). But she wakes up around midnight (goes to bed at 8:30 max) and again at 3ish. I'm not a SAHM (although I wish I were) so I can't "nap when the baby naps". We've tried to let her "cry it out" in the night, but bless her, she cries for 45 minutes with blood curling screams... I'm about at my wits end! ANY advice will help my feelings, I'm sure!
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Re: 7 Mo and up 2x each night... Mama needs some sleep!
Is she actually eating when she wakes up? How much? Does she fall asleep with the bottle?
If she's waking up to eat, read Ferber's book (Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems). He doesn't push just letting them cry, especially for cutting night feedings - it's a rather meticulous methodology that will take some time but will make you and baby ease into sleeping much better.
He has a chapter on cutting out night feedings, which a 7m old certainly doesn't need if she's gaining & wetting properly. It's most likely a comfort thing for her at this point. The night feedings may actually be the cause of her not STTN, because she's associating falling back to sleep with getting a bottle first. Sticking to it is the most important part - she may fight you the first night, but the second will be better, and the third will be even better, and so on. The method of Ferber's that I like best is to give less ounces at the nighttime feedings to start while giving her more ounces during the day if she'll take it. Then cut the feedings out one at a time. There's a whole chart on how to cut them in the book.
Lots of luck!
My DD wasn't sleeping through the night, waking up around 1am and 4am ish...to eat or so we thought. We tried the Ferber method and slowly weaned the night feedings. The first night I didn't feed her until after 1am, then the next night it was later and later. She did cry about 45 minutes the first night, but as you'll read in the book, we checked on her at intervals. The 2nd night was 25 minutes and the 3rd was less than 5.
Now she'll sometimes wake up around 3am and fuss for a few minutes. I feed her if she wakes up anytime after 5am and she goes back down until 7ish.
Just a word of advice - I'm still on mat leave, but my DH works. We started Ferber on a Friday night when she wasn't teething, felt fine. That way, by Sunday, he was able to get a good night sleep!
Just wanted to say that we are in the same boat. With no paddle.
DD goes to bed around 7 and is up before 11. Again around 130. Again around 330 and then at 6. It's a baaaaadddd time around here. She is EBF but doesnt always want to nurse, just snuggle.
I need to work on this. But at 2AM my tired body just wants the quick fix.
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