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Jsthomas618
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sleep help!
Jsthomas618
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DD will be a year old in 3 weeks and still doesn't consistently sleep throught the night. Lately she's been waking at 2:30 and its really wearing on me. If I nurse she goes back down but I really need her to be sleeping better now. At a loss for what to do, I tried CIO but after a week she was still crying for 20 mins at that time...therefore not only is she up, but I'm up listening and theres a very good chance she'll wake DD1 too. What would you do? Did I not give CIO long enough? Could she be genuinely hungry? Any ideas!?!!
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Re: sleep help!
Sorry - nothing like sleep deprivation to make you miserabke. When you talk about CIO, what did you do in terms of sleep training? How long has she been waking at 2:30- 2 days, a week, 2 weeks? There might be teething, developmental changes, etc but if it is longer term, that is a different story.
Yes, kids wake up to eat oftentimes this late, but you absolutely do not need to still be nursing in the middle of the night if it isn't working for you. I personally dropped the feedings in the middle of the night by 4 months for both kids. I weaned both off of it- one it was easy, one it was hard.
My DD is 10 months and we just went through the sleep sense program for sleep training. My DD was still waking 1-3 times a night and needed to be nursed to sleep. The way the program works is:
Nights 1-3 sit in a chair next to the crib and use a calm unemotional voice to say something like "it's ok, it's time to go to sleep." You say this every 3-5 mins (enough to let them know you're still there, but not enough to become a sleep prop) until they fall asleep. My hubby did this since she associated me with milk. You can lay them down 1 or 2 times (don't let it be a game). But ideally, they have to do it on their own. Also, on the first couple nights we gave DD 2 then 1 oz of water to tide her over until morning. She nursed really long in the morning and shifted her eating to increase during the day to make up for the night feeding.
Nights 4-7 sit in a chair in the middle of the room. Same thing.
NIghts 8-10 sit at the door. Same thing.
After night 10, stand at door.
Our DD cried for 90 mins the first night, 80 mins the second night, 60 mins the third night and then it was done. Made for 3 long nights, but after that she was sleeping through the night. Now if she wakes up and doesn't settle, all we have to do is go to the to and say "it's ok, it's time to go to sleep." And she'll settle herself back down.
Good Luck!
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