Sleep easy, night 1 tonight.

forestdancer · January 2013

My LO has not slept through the night more than handful of times. With reading others success I got the sleep easy solution book. After waiting for right time we are going to start tonight. So many emotions going through me. Nervous, scared, hopes.

Any advice out there?

forestdancer · January 2013

Change that starting tomorrow she's to overtired from not great nap,day.

chocolatechippy · January 2013

Oh! We are going to start Thursday night. The plan was to start last weekend, but LO got an ear infection. The longest she has ever slept was 6 hours on a row, and that was at 2 months! Now she is up every 2 hours. So you won't be alone!!! Good luck and may sleep come quickly!

JoannaR1381 · January 2013

We started last week as DS2 was up every two hours since birth. It has changed my life!! Last night he slept 7pm until 3am (up to nurse) and was back down until 7pm. Hang in there and I hope you find a solution that works for your family.

unaveragejane · January 2013

I LOVED SleepEasy for night time. (We're still working on lengthening naps.) We eased into it since I had already started laying him down awake. Our problem was frequent night wakings and DS wanting his paci every time he woke. I had to do some check-ins the first night, but after that he was good to go. He still fusses b/n sleep cycles, but he puts himself back to sleep. (In fact, last night DH broke the rules and went in to replace DS's paci, and it actually made DS mad!!! It's not always that easy, but it's also not always as hard as we anticipate. Good luck!

lil_jen051708 · January 2013

Good luck! Night 1, I did the 5 and then 10 min checkin and then he fell asleep. Night 2 was horrible! Cried for 45 min to get to sleep, cried for like an hr overnight. Night 3 we didn't even do it because he fell asleep and wouldn't wake up but slept from 6:306:30 with a dream feed at 10. Night 4 tonight he went down with NO CRYING!! I know the book says not to touch or pat the baby during checkins but I did anyway several times he rolled onto his belly and was not happy.

Stick to it! Good luck!

traveltheworld · January 2013

I wish you the best of luck! We tried SleepEasy and un-swaddling at the same time. I'm not sure whether it was the lack of the swaddle that really upset DS, but he cried for close to 1.5 hours (on and off) the first night. It was probably the hardest thing I had to do. The second and third nights were better. He did wake up in the middle of the night and cried on and off for an hour each night. After that it was a lot better and by the end of 10 days he was sleeping 7 to 7, with 1 dream-feed at 10. Unfortunately due to some feeding issues, DS is now back to eating several times in the MOTN.

Tweets06 · January 2013

First of all - good luck with sleep training! DD is 6 months old and wakes up every 2 hours. Which brings me to my second of all.

What is the gist of sleep easy? I have read multiple sleep training books (the no cry sleep solution, Healthy sleep habits- happy child, and 2 others which I honestly can't even remember the titles of at this point). I would really love to find a solution that will work for us, but none of the books that I have read have been specific enough (for example, in the no cry sleep solution, they tell you to pick your child up if she is crying... but what if you can't set her down without her crying?). I don't want to buy another book that isn't going to be useful to me and I'm too tired to read anymore theory about why one person's ideas are better than another's. Do you think that the sleep easy solution is easy to understand and comprehensive enough to follow?

Does anyone else have any advice / comments?

forestdancer · January 2013

Tweets06:
First of all - good luck with sleep training! DD is 6 months old and wakes up every 2 hours. Which brings me to my second of all.
What is the gist of sleep easy? I have read multiple sleep training books (the no cry sleep solution, Healthy sleep habits- happy child, and 2 others which I honestly can't even remember the titles of at this point). I would really love to find a solution that will work for us, but none of the books that I have read have been specific enough (for example, in the no cry sleep solution, they tell you to pick your child up if she is crying... but what if you can't set her down without her crying?). I don't want to buy another book that isn't going to be useful to me and I'm too tired to read anymore theory about why one person's ideas are better than another's. Do you think that the sleep easy solution is easy to understand and comprehensive enough to follow?
Does anyone else have any advice / comments?

i read couple if different books after reading others success on her I got it. Read parts over and over and hopefully waited for right time. I think the book is very easy to read and supportive. Crying it out is going to be hard but after six months its time for sleep for all of us.

Basis is pre bed routine, put to be awake and let them cry it out. They suggest going in for checks if they cry but no touching, just some words. You can modify that a bit if you want. You stick with it and hopefully in 3-5 days baby goes to bed awake, falls asleep and if wakes go back to sleep on own. There is advice in ooh up to I think 5 years of age.

Thanks everyone for support. I'll let you know tomorrow how our night went. I'm going to try to work on naps to like book suggests but he naps are so different in length we will see.

unaveragejane · January 2013

Tweets06:
First of all - good luck with sleep training! DD is 6 months old and wakes up every 2 hours. Which brings me to my second of all.
What is the gist of sleep easy? I have read multiple sleep training books (the no cry sleep solution, Healthy sleep habits- happy child, and 2 others which I honestly can't even remember the titles of at this point). I would really love to find a solution that will work for us, but none of the books that I have read have been specific enough (for example, in the no cry sleep solution, they tell you to pick your child up if she is crying... but what if you can't set her down without her crying?). I don't want to buy another book that isn't going to be useful to me and I'm too tired to read anymore theory about why one person's ideas are better than another's. Do you think that the sleep easy solution is easy to understand and comprehensive enough to follow?
Does anyone else have any advice / comments?

I tried to use the advice in The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems, but it wasn't working for us at all. I would get stuck in that same rut of him crying as soon as I would start to set him back down. With SleepEasy, the check-ins are brief, and the purpose of them is less about getting them stop crying b/c you are there and more about giving them moral support while they learn how to put themselves to sleep. For some reason, this was a huge change in my mindset. I really like the advice in SleepEasy as it was concrete, supportive, and easy to understand. The process itself can be trying, and it's not been a complete fix for our naps, but it has done wonders for our nighttime sleep. I also like that it has advice for dealing with other sleep interruptions that come along as baby gets older.

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