Apropos of yesterday's UOs.... (PR)

Re: Apropos of yesterday's UOs.... (PR)

• thebanich member

  January 2015

  It is reasonable. Just be prepared to sit there for a long time. (IME!!!!)  DD would just stare at me for 45 minutes or when she would finally drift off.
  
  (She had never STTN the night up to that point though so maybe your kid will be nicer and just GTF to sleep.)
  
  
  

  

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• littlestjerry member

  January 2015

  I would not give him water because it seems like that would just wake him up.
  
  I'd pat his back for increasingly shorter periods, then stop patting and just sit there, then move to not going in at all. Over the course of several days.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

                                       DS is 1DAF
  

  
  

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• pepperedmoth member

  January 2015

  ScoutNumbers05 said:

  Have you read Ferber?

  I have not, mostly because I've read so many people saying he is so so evil. Is he?

  

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• pepperedmoth member

  January 2015

  Do you (plural you) think it would keep him awake if I read to myself using the low red light on my headlamp while I sat there?
  
  I have failed a few times at the sitting thing because *I* keep falling asleep and I need something to keep me awake.

  

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• pepperedmoth member

  January 2015

  @luxannie‌ maybe I'll lay down on the floor. Good point.
  
  I've been sitting in the rocker and can't actually sleep there, so I nod off and snap awake, nod off and snap awake...I find it super unpleasant.
  
  I like the idea of being right there so maybe I will check out the Pantley.

  

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• pepperedmoth member

  January 2015

  TwoScoopz said:

  
  

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  When should one stop feeding in the middle of the night? DS usually wakes up twice and I nurse him for 10 mins and then put him back in the crib...am I doing it wrong? He's 4 months and double his birth weight.

  
  

  I'd go by what your pediatrician says.  Mine said, given DS's weight, I could have stopped by 3-4 months.  But I decided I would willingly do it until 9 months because it was the fastest way to get him back to sleep.

  
  

  ...until he started waking at crazy times, like one hour after bedtime and one hour after feeds.  Then I got tougher and we needed to sleep train.

  
  

  This is my current situation.  My 8 month old's sleep is a mess (keeps getting worse since 4 months).  I will probably try Ferber very soon.  Staying in the room while trying to sleep train wouldn't work for me because I would just cave and feed the kid so that I could go back to bed.
  
  I have caved a few times too! MH and I are going to make a blood pact tonight.

  

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• tattooedtragedy member

  January 2015

  I'm re-training this weekend after almost a monthly of shitty sleep due to various issues (teeth, travel, sickness) We do our own version of CIO taking ideas from several other methods.

  I thnk the most important thing is to find a method that feels right to you and stick with it for a few days. It isn't all going to change and be perfect on the first night. (Oh but how I wish it would)

  
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• pepperedmoth member

  January 2015

  bunnyfungo said:

  @pepperedmoth‌ Can YH do MOTN wakeups for a few days? If I go in DD wants to nurse because she knows mama is for milk, but if DH goes in and pats her back she goes down without needing to eat.

  Yeah. We're working on a strategy for fair division of labor here.....

  

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• lululolo member

  January 2015

  @lovethatdirtywater‌ we had to send DS1 to my parents house for two nights, for this exact reason. Is something like that an option for you? OP, we just did sleep training over the holidays. My previously great sleeper had been waking up every 1-2 hours all.night.long for about two months. I tried the back rubbing and patting and staying close strategy, and while it certainly soothed him, he would wake up again 1-2 hours later expecting the same to still be happening. For my son, he needed to be able to put himself to sleep. So we decided to ship off ds1 for a sleepover with the grandparents and we did sleep training with checking in at increasing intervals.He took to it amazingly well. Good luck! It is so hard, I know, but do what feels right and is best for you and your LO.

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• pepperedmoth member

  January 2015

  This is all soooooo helpful. Thanks everyone!

  

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