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Sleep training???
Hi Ladies,
My HV has ask a nursery nurse women to come to see me about sleep training for my little man who wont sleep. He is 19 weeks on Sunday and has never slept longer than 6 hours (did 8 hours twice but never again), he wakes at 1am and then every hour after and we have to keep going back to put dummy in.
Anyone else had this (the sleep training) and can tell me what it involves?
Thanks
Sxx
My HV has ask a nursery nurse women to come to see me about sleep training for my little man who wont sleep. He is 19 weeks on Sunday and has never slept longer than 6 hours (did 8 hours twice but never again), he wakes at 1am and then every hour after and we have to keep going back to put dummy in.
Anyone else had this (the sleep training) and can tell me what it involves?
Thanks
Sxx
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good luck xx
Let us know how it goes.
sarah
Would love to know how it goes. Good Luck xx
Sorry if i've gone into too much detail - it might not even be the same thing that she is going to say but this is what my hv told me.
I'd say it's not for everyone but I had tried other methods, such as pick up / put down (really made it lots worse for us, just totally riled him up) and holding him til he fell asleep but this just resulted in him needing me to hold him every time he woke up and then I had to wait longer and longer (up to half an hour) after he'd fallen asleep before I could put him back in the cot. It's difficult to hear your baby cry - no two ways about it - but the most important thing is that if you decide to do it, stick to it 100% otherwise you're just being cruel for no reason. Also remember that it's in your baby's interest to be able to get all the sleep they really need. If you can't do it though, don't beat yourself up, as I say it's not for everyone!
Good luck, hope you get some much needed rest soon. xxx
Looking forward to Tuesday now!
Sxx
It's v depressing but at the moment she still needs the night feeds as she's got silent reflux and not eating enough during the day. If she was eating fine I'd def do sleep training. Like Moomin says, it's basically leaving to cry (and either checking regularly, doing shhh/pat etc). But from what I've read and heard 3 nights should crack it. It sounds like you just need to get rid of that dummy and he'll be fine as he's not waking for food.
I'd agree that your baby is perfectly normal at the age of 19weeks and can't believe an hv would offer sleep training that early!!
I am in fact quite jealous as my ds didn't sleep for more than 4 hours at a time until after 9months!!! and hv's in my area won't offer any help with sleeping until over 11months
we finally go lo to sleep through with controlled crying at 9months but I don't think i'd like to use this method on such a young babe.
most babies don't sleep through at a young age xx
To be honest she is probably just going to tell you to ditch the dummy, as this always seems to be their answer to everything.
good luck with it, and let us know how you get on.
Nx
by the way - I did a version of sleep training with Abby from a VERY young age (about 5 days) and it worked REALLY well, so it can be done earlier - but they dont tend to recomend it, and it is tricky to get it right. xxx
Sx