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Babies: 6 - 9 Months
Sleep Associations and Biological Clock Question.
Hey Everyone.
Im Trish. Im new to the 6-9 month board. My baby girl Jillian just turned 6 months a couple of days ago. *waves*
My LO have Never ever ever STTN. I have come close before and I do believe she is capiable of doing so, but we have this biological clock issue. She goes to bed at 8:00 (we start her bedtime routine around 730) and she'll only sleep until 1030. She'll wake up and cry and the only way I can get her back to sleep is by feeding her. I EBF. She sucks for about a minute or two and then is passed out. She will easily go back down to sleep after that minute or two of sucking, but then is up again at 2:30. Again the only way she can fall back asleep is by me nursing her.
During the day she can go 3-3.5 hours between feedings. 4 hours if she has had solids previously.
Ive tried to let her CIO - I let her go for a couple of hours a few nights in a row and apparently that just doesnt work for her.
She hasn't taken a paci in months - although I have to wonder if that might help.
I've also started her on solids 2-3 weeks ago and that doesn't seem to be bothering her at all.
Can Anyone Give me any advice?
TIA!
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Re: Sleep Associations and Biological Clock Question.
Well...just a suggestion, but if at 10:30 it only takes a minute or two of sucking, then I might let her suck and then unlatch her and stick a paci in (obviously not hungry) and try to train her to take a paci at that time??
Edit to add: Do you have a SO at home that could go in at that point? Maybe without you going in, your LO might be able to be soothed to sleep another way? We did this (but not until ds was 1 year old) and he was MAD. Cried and cried while in daddy's arms, but after a few days was sleeping through the night.
If it were me, I would just nurse her for a couple of minutes twice a night. That's actually pretty close to how things are with my LO and I think it's great! Everyone in my house is well rested.
If that's not the case for you, obviously something needs to change. Make sure you do your research, though, letting LO cry for hours doesn't sound right to me. I haven't read Ferber and maybe I am misunderstanding you, but I do not think that's the principle of it. I have heard good things about The No Cry Sleep Solution re: breaking night comfort nursing.
We did Ferber and he does not recommend letting them just cry for hours by themselves. But he does talk extensively about sleep associations and internal clocks, so I think the info would be really helpful for you.
The nursing to sleep thing is a huge part of it. If that's how she's falling asleep the first time, that's what she's going to need every time she wakes. The waking in the middle of hte night is normal and even adults do it, she just doesn't know how to fall back asleep without nursing. The fact that she just sucks for a minute or two proves to me that she isn't hungry, she just has it as a sleep association.