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Sleepeasy-Baby understand feedings?

Pantone99Pantone99
in September 2011 Moms

It's the middle of the night and the questions swirl in my brain

I'm sleep training DD (this is only my 2nd night) and I know she needs to eat at least 1x a night (per pedi, and we're not ready to try to wean her off that feeding yet). Just trying to wrap my head around how she knows it's ok that I pick her up for that feeding vs. not picking her up when she cries any other time.

Case- tonight she cried for awhile about 1.5 hours after we put her down for the night. We didn't pick her up, did check-ins, etc and she fell back asleep. She woke up again 7 hours after she went down crying so I fed her. Doesn't it confuse her that I picked her up the second time, and not that first? Is she going to be able to put together, "Oh, I was hungry, that's why she picked me up. When I wake up an hour from now, she's not going to pick me up b/c I'm just crying b/c I want someone to rock me back to sleep."

I'm sure I'm overthinking this but like I said, the doubts arise at night when my husband questions about why we're letting her cry even though we decided together that this is what we were going to do. Any thoughts or words of encouragement would be helpful!

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  • JKGymnastJKGymnast member
    imagePantone99:

    "Oh, I was hungry, that's why she picked me up. When I wake up an hour from now, she's not going to pick me up b/c I'm just crying b/c I want someone to rock me back to sleep."

    I'm sure I'm overthinking this....

    This is my exact thought!! Great question though... Does the book address it?
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  • Ms5586Ms5586 member

    You should be tracking what time that feed occurs, then setting an alarm to one hour before and feeding her then.  So if she usually eats at 2 am, set your alarm for 1 and feed her then.  Keep her awake just enough to eat, burp, etc, then put her back down.  That way, she sleeps through her usual 2 am wakeup.

    Yes, the book does explain it.  We're also keeping his one feeding right now, he needs it.

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  • monkyfishmonkyfish
    We're also keeping one feeding right before we go to bed, which makes his long stretch of sleep during the hours that we'd like to be sleeping, it's been amazing so far.  I would do what the op said and feed your baby 1 hour before she normally wakes on her own for a feeding and I would do a dreamfeed - that's been what works best for DS.  I just pick him up sound asleep and sit in the rocker with him and stroke his lower lip with the nipple until he starts to eat.  When he's done I just put him right back down in the crib and he's out.  I think doing it this way actually has helped him sleep more soundly for the rest of the night as opposed to waking all the way.  Sleepeasy has a little side note that stresses the importance of NEVER feeding them when they wake and cry, b/c it will confuse them just as you are worried it will.  Instead, if she does wake hungry, do your checks again and once she's asleep, wait about 10min and then go in and feed.  I just find that beating him to the punch with the dreamfeed is easier on everyone in our house.  Good luck! Smile
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  • Pantone99Pantone99
    Thanks ladies. WIll try that tonight!
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