Sleep help!

muffin0526 · February 2013

So, we have always had sleep issues with DD. for quite some time she was in the bassinet in our room. We have done co sleeping for awhile too. I have been trying to get her to sleep in the crib for what seems like forever.

I will get her off to sleep and she will almost all the time wake up when I lay her down. Sometimes I can get her back to sleep by patting her. Other times I will leave the room and try to let her fall back asleep. Yes, I know inconsistent. I try to always walk away and hope she falls back asleep. DH doesn't help though and he is always ready to go in a scoop her up. There were a few times back when she was around 4 months old that she slept through the night. Now, if she falls back asleep she will be asleep for 4 hours max. With being a working mom it is easier to bring her back in bed most nights. Just to be able to get some sleep. I am looking for any tips, please! I really want to Gerber sleeping in her crib every night. I hope this all made sense. What have you all found to work?. Thanks in advance.

GAPeach68 · February 2013

Ross was waking up when I (or my husband) put him in his crib. We'd rock him and get him back to sleep. Well then he started getting up again and again. And sometimes several times during the night. I was losing my mind. I knew he could sleep through the night because he'd do it sometimes. So 2 weeks ago, after rocking him to sleep 3 times in a row and him waking up, I left him crying in the crib. It was a miserable hr. I went back in and patted him (as he tried to grab onto me) and told him I loved him and it was time to go to sleep. After 1 hr. he fell asleep. He woke up once during the night and cried for about 15 min. The next night I did it again, but he only cried once for 30 minutes. From then on, if he cries, it is only for a few minutes and then he goes to sleep. I am sooo glad I went through that one miserable night (really 1 hr.). I think I've actually done him a favor by getting him on the right path of soothing himself back to sleep. I can put him down now and not worry about how long it will be before I have to go back in there. Good luck!

wntrgrl83 · February 2013

I wish I could offer up some advice Muffin, but I am going through the EXACT same thing as you. I know that I need to work on him going to sleep on his own (soothing himself back to sleep), but a huge part of me is so afraid he will think I am abandoning him..... I hope you get the advice you need... a lot of the ladies here have gone through a similar situation it seems....

KatFCo · February 2013

We're working on No Cry Sleep Solution. It's a slow process, but gentler than any form of CIO. It hasn't helped with STTN (still wakes up for a bottle), but it is helping him go to sleep easier. There are several phases. We're on phase one, where we're working on laying him down sleepy but not asleep.

smithwilson1219 · February 2013

We did CIO too.ds was waking every 1.5 hours to nurse..we were cosleeping..and with getting up at 430 it was making me crazy. So after the pediatrician recommended CIO.dh agreed to try it. 1 st night he cried 15 mins, 2nd night 90 . It saved my life...the fog is lifting :-)