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Talk to me about sleep training
theimpossibleastronaut
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I know it's not recommended before three months. Is there anything we can start doing now? When we put LO down drowsy, she wakes herself up almost immediately and starts fussing, which leads to crying. Anyone have anything that works? We are still dealing with freakouts every night where LO cries and cries before we can get her to sleep. We've tried earlier/later bedtimes, but the crying before bed continues.
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Re: Talk to me about sleep training
When I read the books on sleep training (and I read a LOT of books on ST...), they said wait until your LO is at least 15 lbs, so that they can maintain proper glucose levels all night. I don't think the age matters so much as the weight. DD was 6 months old when she finally hit 15 lbs, and that was when we used the sleep easy solution. But I am with PP... I swaddled DD and that helped a lot before I did any sort of sleep training with her.
My dd would cry for hours when we rocked her to sleep for the first 4 months. She was swaddled and shushed and it took an hour to get her to stop crying and fall asleep and it was another hour before putting her down The night we did CIO she cried for about 20 minutes and she was out. So she cried less during CIO than being rocked. My point is that in her case, all the rocking was just getting her agitated.
Most say you aren't supposed to do CIO until 4 months. But some people say that doing CIO at any point is terrible. So no one really knows for sure. Weissbluth says you can start experimenting with it at 2 months. Trust your gut. And nothing you try for a couple of nights will permanently harm your baby.
ETA: I mean CIO for bedtime, not STTN.
I guess I'm looking for something we can do to avoid her crying in our arms every night before she finally gets tired and falls asleep. Maybe this is something she will outgrow? I just feel bad that she has this crying period right before bed.
As I said above, we don't CIO. She cries while rock/ try to soothe her. We swaddle and use a white noise track from HBOTB. She still ends up on a crying jag before going to sleep.
She does have a milk protein sensitivity, but I have cut out all dairy from my diet and she gets a soy formula for supplement.
I was just wondering if there was anything we can do so she's not crying every night as we try to get her to bed. I feel bad that this is how bedtime is for her.
It will pass.
Both my kids had witching hours around that time. Eventually it ended. Listened to a lot of Journey during that time.
Good luck.