What sleep training techniques have u all tried?
Hi all my ds is 6 month 3 weeks and started sleeping through for a few weeks 7.30pm-6am now hes waking about 3 times on average.
ATM i hold his hands and sing to him while he falls asleep and i know when he wakes he expecting me to do this again.
Sometimes at 3am ish he will grizzle and fall asleep 5 mins later and i leave him. But im thinking about doing cc.
Its just ive read it can have a negative affect on the baby and cause depression etc in later life. I feel really bad about it but im so tired and he is so ratty in the day and needs 4 hours in the day.
Anyone tried it or have any other suggestions?
ATM i hold his hands and sing to him while he falls asleep and i know when he wakes he expecting me to do this again.
Sometimes at 3am ish he will grizzle and fall asleep 5 mins later and i leave him. But im thinking about doing cc.
Its just ive read it can have a negative affect on the baby and cause depression etc in later life. I feel really bad about it but im so tired and he is so ratty in the day and needs 4 hours in the day.
Anyone tried it or have any other suggestions?
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we did cc at 11 months and by night 3 it was working well and on night 4 she went down no crying at all and slept through 7-5am. it took a few more weeks to get her going 7-7 and she did that by herself. you cant start it and then give p as i you do that youve just let your baby to cry or no reason, which is cruel. so id say get the book and make sure you have a plan beore you start. we did it so i did all the get ups so there was no conusion. a friend has alternated between her and her husband and is taken them a lot longer.
My mum let all four of us cry and non of us are depressed!!
Lxx
anyway no advice sorry but shall be seeing what other says, i dont see the problem with cc as long as it is controlled which im sure it will be or you could always do pu / pd /cc so your letting them cry for 10 mins say and then going in, again it takes a few days and not much fun in the middle of the night but we gotta do what we gotta do!
With regards to waking in the night, i am pretty certain that when she wakes it is purely because she is hungry (if she doesnt eat a great deal of solids in the day i know i'm in for a long night) as her waking time is haphazard and she can sometimes go for 8 hours - i can usually feed her back to sleep, if not i just have to keep letting her comfort on the breast until she is asleep enough for me to put her back down - it's silly but i cant leave her to cry in the night as my husband has to be up at 5.30am and i dont want him waken - as well as the impact on the neighbours.
Hope that you find a solution that works for you soon xx