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WWYD: Advice re. getting baby back to STTN

CageyMackCageyMack member
in Babies: 6 - 9 Months
Hi!  

Background: Baby was STTN, 7:30 pm to 5 am, in own room, own crib.  Never would STTN (or come even close) in co-sleep.  Used graduated extinction over about two weeks and got to the STTN.   Baby never cried for longer than about 15 minutes, even at the worst.

Then BAM: Baby got a cold at exactly six months.  All H-E-double-hockey-sticks broke out and we were doing a lot of rocking to sleep, bottle to sleep, you name it. He was so uncomfortable that we certainly were not going to let him suffer.  Cold ended. A day or so passed. Some friends came to visit and he moved into a pack and play in our room since his room is our guest room. That day, a fever swooped in like a heat wave blanketing the panhandle.  The fever was up to 103, mostly around 100+, and lasted just about two days.  It became clear almost immediately that this fever was giving cover to two huge teeth working through.  Pacifier was used a LOT, as baby would instantly go to sleep.

Now: Fever is done. Teeth are mostly in? Baby is waking every hour to two hours all night long.  Will go to sleep with pacifier usually, but will occasionally repeatedly spit pacifier out with force of Niagara Falls; this indicates that he would like us to make him a huge fat bottle RIGHT NOW! Mostly we wake to him whimpering or crying and we frantically search for the pacifier; at our house now, the little things are worth more than Intel chips or an inside line on the Superbowl. 

Future: Baby can move back to his room Wednesday. What do we do?  Put him back in his room and return to graduated extinction (leave him, pat-pat, return in 1-3-5-7-9 minutes)? Would you give the baby a pacifier?  Or give it to him the first time then no more?  He also has a beloved fuzzy fox whose tail he will suck on, but probably not when he gets really upset.  Ditch the pacifier completely?  Gradual change or just cold turkey switch?  FWIW, we really can't do complete CIO, the most we would do is leave him for longer and longer amounts of time.

So, if this was the baby you were handed, what would you do? : )  He is super cute, which helps. Especially when he is super demanding. But only a little. Especially only a little at 3am when you have been up 5 times already. Aaaand it is pitch black. : )

TIA!

CageyMack
37, married to my favorite person in the world, DW! One darling surfer-girl (12) and one darling, sweet boy born 3/16/13.

5/2013 Started TTC #3, DW's turn: 5/2013: Diagnostics (shg) and surgery (polyp rem.) for best chances. July-Oct: IUI # 1-4, medicated, monitored, triggered.  All BFN. IVF in Jan May. Sheesh. Whoop! IVF#1 cycle started 4/2/14. 5/1: 19 eggs retrieved, 8 matured, ICSI'd.  4 fertilized.   Only 2 to transfer/freeze stage. 5/6: Two embryos transferred. 5/15: Beta #1 9dp5dt is 134! BFP! 5/19: Beta #2 13dp5dt is 672! B'erFP! 5/21: Beta #3 15dp5dt is 1853.  Yay!


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Re: WWYD: Advice re. getting baby back to STTN

  • Anjel_9@hotmail.comAnjel_9@hotmail.com member

    Give him a week to get used to being back in his room/crib, and then try your version of graduated extinction.  We just moved, and that's what we're planning to do. In the meantime, everyone is tired including the dog.

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