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September 2011 Moms
JKGymnast
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*~*Sleep Training Check In*~*
JKGymnast
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1) Day number/Start date
2) Length of time crying before LO fell asleep
3) Any wakeups
4) Dreamfeed/regular feeding
5) What you did to stay busy and not cry
6) Any challenges/questions/concerns
7) Progress Update/Successes
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Re: *~*Sleep Training Check In*~*
1) I did 2+ weeks of sleep training but I feel like I need to focus more on naps. So, I'll do Nap check-in's now. Day 1. :-)
2) 3 of her naps were in the car/no crying. Last nap of the day, in her crib, cried for 45 minutes!! :-(
3) n/a
4) I tried feeding her again before this last nap of the day to see if she'd sleep longer; and for the 2nd time, it failed!!
5) bump...
6) I feel like I need to lock myself into our house for a few days to do every nap in the crib. I know the book says car ride naps (lengthy ones) are ok, but I think we need to stay home and get these naps squared away asap. They just aren't easy anymore. ;-(
7) TBA!
This totally worked for us. We started sleep training 1 month ago. Emily went from only sleeping in her RNP for naps and the PNP at night to totally sleeping in her crib in 2 nights. I didn't leave the house during the day for a good 4-5 days to get her naps on track. I also try to have her nap her first and second naps of the day in her crib. I try to leave my errands for the afternoon hours. I'm not sure if any of this would work for you depending on your daily schedule, but I wanted to at least suggest it.
We're on day 4 of nap training (had 2 daycare days in between).
Put her down at 7:40 and she cried 7 min and fell asleep. Woke babbling at 8:30 so still taking 45-50 min naps but I'm not trying to make them longer at this point. One battle is enough.
We'll see how others go today. 7 min is an improvement over 15 but of course I'd love no fussing. At least she is still waking up happy.
PS: Nap #1 of today, 30 minutes of crying so far... Gah, I feel like I'm starting night sleep training all over again. I'm having to force myself not to go rescue her. This sucks so bad! ;-(
ETA: 30 min crying/10 min whimpering -- and she's asleep. Phew!
1) Day number/Start date - Day 3, 7:00 - 5:30
2) Length of time crying before LO fell asleep - N/A, not a peep!
3) Any wakeups - Not that I heard, until about 5:15 this morning.
4) Dreamfeed/regular feeding - 3 dream feeds - one at 9 pm before we went to bed, one at midnight, and one at 3
5) What you did to stay busy and not cry - No tears all around!!!
6) Any challenges/questions/concerns - I wish he would've slept until 6 am like he did yesterday, but I knew there was no way he'd be happy in his crib for 45 minutes until 6 am, so I left him in there for about a half hour, until he really started to fuss.
7) Progress Update/Successes - Mommy, daddy, and baby all got a great night's sleep...I couldn't be happier with his progress at this point. I hope it continues. FX!
Ohhh... I'm so sorry!! It's soooo hard to sit there and listen to them crying. Every instinct says to scoop them up and cuddle them. Glad that she is finally asleep there. Here's hoping for a good long nap!!
I totally agree with the one battle at a time thing! For me naps are now going awesome and bedtime, but it is the middle of the night I am really struggling with and until that is solved I am not listening to crying during the day as well!
1) Day number/Start date Night 7
Sleep duration 6:45p-7:20a
2) Length of time crying before LO fell asleep None at bedtime in days! The crying for us is after I set him down after a feeding in the middle of the night.
3) Any wakeups- 10:37- Fed since it was after 5 hours since he had eaten
1:45p- Fed since this is usually around when he is hungry
4:00p- Fed and then he had a really hard time falling back asleep and cried for along time.
I cried to because I don't want to have to listen to anymore tears in the middle of the night. It is way more difficult than during the day.
5) What you did to stay busy and not cry - Listened to ipod
6) Any challenges/questions/concerns- I think I have totally confused my LO at night time because I just have not been consistent. The nights we let him CIO at his first awakening he only eats once and then sleeps until morning. If I feed him earlier it all seems to go downhill. Middle of the night= me feeling like a failure. Please help me get back on track! Should I just consistently let him CIO the first awakening and hope it goes away? or I am thinking of trying the SleepEasy Method instead, but I am wondering if trying yet another thing isn't such a good idea.
I also think a later bedtime might be better for him because he was really having a hard time falling back asleep after 4. Has anyone had luck pushing the bedtime back? It just is so hard to control since his naps are not consistent and still are not all that long.
7) Progress Update/Successes Naptimes and bedtimes are awesome!
1) Day number/Start date: 6
2) Length of time crying before LO fell asleep: Last night it took us an hour to get her to go to sleep. I think she was over tired for some reason.
3) Any wakeup: 10:30, 1:30, 4, up for the day at 6
4) Dreamfeed/regular feeding: 1:30 and 4
5) What you did to stay busy and not cry: well, I tried to calm her down.
6) Any challenges/questions/concerns: I'm concerned that she's not napping long enough during the day. She will still only do 30 min cat naps.
7) Progress Update/Successes: she's sleeping better than she was a few weeks ago.
1) Day number/Start date
Day 6 - slept 8pm-6:45am
2) Length of time crying before LO fell asleep
none! He talked to himself a couple minutes at bedtime, no fussing though. After his feeding I never heard a peep!
3) Any wakeups
One at 3am for a feeding.
4) Dreamfeed/regular feeding
regular
5) What you did to stay busy and not cry
n/a
6) Any challenges/questions/concerns
no
7) Progress Update/Successes
I've noticed he even wakes up nicer. He used to wake up crying. Now he wakes and talks a little bit, sucks his hand, takes his time. I like to give him a couple minutes of that before going in.
Last night was so amazing. Not only did A sleep from 8-3am but I slept too! I went to bed at 8:45 and didn't wake until his 3am feeding. Amazing. He's done long stretches before but I usually am checking the clock. It's amazing was 6 TRUE hours of solid sleep will do for you! (how many times can I say amazing)
Prior to starting sleep training, how often were you feeding him? Were you feeding everytime he woke up?
At about 10 weeks A would often just do one feeding a night. I'd feed twice if he woke twice but by 12 weeks, he was just eating once. So when sleep went to crap, I didn't add back feedings, I still just fed that one time.
His feeding was usually between 2-3am. When we started sleep training, I made a rule that if he woke before 1am, he wasn't getting a feeding because I knew he didn't need a feeding at that point. He does (did) a lot of 11:30pm wake ups and that's when we did CIO. Sometimes he'll do a wakeup around 4am and we'll CIO for that one too.
Hope that helps.
At about 10 weeks A would often just do one feeding a night. I'd feed twice if he woke twice but by 12 weeks, he was just eating once. So when sleep went to crap, I didn't add back feedings, I still just fed that one time.
His feeding was usually between 2-3am. When we started sleep training, I made a rule that if he woke before 1am, he wasn't getting a feeding because I knew he didn't need a feeding at that point. He does (did) a lot of 11:30pm wake ups and that's when we did CIO. Sometimes he'll do a wakeup around 4am and we'll CIO for that one too.
Hope that helps.
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Bold- this exactly
Underline- does this work for you? I want to do this because I have somehow gotten myself all screwed up and am now feeding DD 2x a night when I know she really only needs to feed once, because she was good with one feeding at 12 weeks. I have been hesitant to let her CIO if she wakes too early/after the 1st feeding because...well, of course I can make a million excuses for her (maybe she didn't eat enough during the day, eetc. etc) when really my issue is that I'm.so.sick.of.the.crying. It's really, really getting to me. Last night she was up 3 hours after she went to bed and it turned into a sh*tshow, with my husband picking her up after 50 minutes of screaming bloody murder. I fed her then and again later in the night. I don't think she needed it.
And now we have visitors starting tonight which means not alot of CIO as we live in a supersmall house and they will be staying on an air matress in the living room.
I'm so worn down with all of this. Naps are killing me too. She just slept for about 20 minutes of the last hour and is crying now to get up. These days have been so long when she doesn't get good sleep. I'm at my wits end.
Didn't plan for this to turn into a vent. Sorry ladies!
Pantone- I feel your pain. Things are way better here but during the night there seems to be 45 minutes of crying no matter what we do. I just cannot take it anymore.
Solsbury- Using that method how long did it take to get better? I know LO probably only really needs to eat once since he has done it 3 times this week when we let him CIO for his 1st wake up. He seems to need to eat about 8 hours after his last feeding. I am thinking of just waking him up shortly before this and feeding him and letting him CIO all of the other times. It just seems like it confuses him that sometimes when he cries I come and then I don't others.
It does work for us. DH is in charge of any wakeups before 1am. Mostly because we're in this together, but also because if I go, my milk lets down, he smells the milk, it's a big mess. Say he wakes at 11pm. We let him cry 5 minutes, DH checks on him (doesn't pick him up, rubs his back, says soothing things, etc. for a minute) and then we wait 7 minutes before the next check in. We haven't had to do a 2nd check in, he falls asleep a couple minutes after the first check in.
Have you tried that?
Before sleep training, DH would get him and rock him back to sleep at that wakeup. One of the reasons we started sleep training was to hopefully get rid of that wake up. Pre sleep training he woke at 11pm probably 75% of the time. During the 6 days of sleep training, he's woken at 11pm twice. So there is an improvement.