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Sleep training questions

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Yet another post about sleep training.  Sorry if these questions have been discussed before recently!

DD has practically never been able to fall asleep in her crib.  Night time is still going ok with walking around with her to get her to sleep and then putting her in her crib.  She will almost always wake once within an hour of falling asleep but goes back down easily.  However, naps have been getting worse and worse and often I can't get her into her crib without waking her. So, I am thinking of using Ferber's method.

Here are my questions:

1. DD falls asleep during her bottle about half the time.  If this was the case with your LO, how did you address this in order to do sleep training.  I know it is important to consistently put her down awake.

2.  As I mentioned, DD usually wakes up within about an hour of falling asleep at night and sometimes she screams bloody murder.  I am really worried about not being able to pick her up when/if this happens. I am more worried about this than her falling asleep in the first place. Any words of wisdom?

3. Sometimes when DD gets really upset, she gets the hiccups and then they wake her up/keep her from falling asleep.  She will also throw up if she gets really upset.  Did anyone experience this while sleep training?

4. I have read Ferber, Weissbluth, as well as some other books, but I have not read Sleepeasy.  What does Sleepeasy offer that Ferber doesn't?

 5.  Ferber recommends only letting babies cry for 30 minutes at nap time.  I am worried that this may not be enough time for DD to learn to fall asleep at nap time.  What is your experience with this.

 Thanks in advance for answering any of my questions you can! 

 

 

 

 

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Re: Sleep training questions

  • Oliver715Oliver715 member

    1. If you follow sleep, eat,, play pattern all day you won't have a problem with falling asleep during feeding. It also helps with establishing a routine. Everybody does better with a routine. 

    2. Don't pick her up if you can. If she doesn't have any medical issues (my DD2 has severe reflux and milk intolerance so when she screamed I had to make sure it wasn't a reflux issue) then just rub her back and let her cry. You know she is fine if she stops crying when you go in there and rub her back. Try to stop rubbing her back right before she goes to sleep. Maybe have a white noise machine to help her get back to sleep when she wakes herself up.

    3. The hiccups and throwing up may mean she is in pain from some reflux or something. How old is she? The fact that she does go to sleep means she is capable.

    So here is what I learned from my 2 girls. The first one I was tough mom. I let her cry it out and she slept great. But it was horrible on me. The second one I rocked her and held her. But I also had to sleep train her because I had to take care of my oldest. (They are 17 months apart) it was hard because she was having major issues lying flat because of her reflux. Se slept in a rock n play for the first 8 months of her life. She grew out of it but she slept so good in it. If your dd is young I would try putting her in a rock n play. It's the best $$ spent. Try just rubbing her back. It will take an hour the first wk or so but one night you will lay her down and realize she is about to go to sleep on her own. Just stick with it. Like I said though if your heart tells you something just isn't right check it out. But I'm telling you those babies are smart. They know how to get us to pick them up! Just remember this is what's best for her. She needs tone ale to get herself back to sleep at night.

    GL! I know it can be soooo hard! I cried many a tear. :) 

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  • Oliver715Oliver715 member
    Ha. Just saw the ticker. 7 months is prob too old for a rock n play. My other quest is what was she sleeping in before? If this is a new location it will take some getting used to. Hang in there and stick with one thing for a while. 
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  • Natali25Natali25 member
    Just wanted to add about the throw up thing. Our son does it too if he gets to upset. It's a wait and see kind of process for us. He has learned how to put himself to sleep, however, I think sometimes he just doesn't want to. We did the sleep easy solution. Now we just go off his moods. If he needed a bottle right before bed we'll usually put him to sleep because he will throw up his food if he gets to worked up. In the book, it kinda says to let them just do it and then go in afterwards and say it wasn't a big deal, clean them up and move right back into the training. However, we don't usually do this cause it's a super big pain to clean up and it wakes them up in the process. Guess it depends on how hard core you want to be with your CIO. Good luck!

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