The Baby Sleep Site, sleep trainers or r ride it out?

[freelancegirl]

Anyone used this at all? I found their website during many hours of googling sleep issues due to a feeding-to-sleep boob dependent frequent waker (now 9mo) and get their weekly emails. Am tempted by a personalised sleep plan as it's cheaper than a sleep trainer, I can't seem to do it on my own and I'm thinking having a plan I can follow might help me stick to it. But also wondering if it's just a waste of money. And even if I can stick to it once I've bought it.

Half of me is now clingy to DS as ive got used to cosleeping! But realistically we all need more sleep as in the evening we can have as often as half hourly wake ups which only diminish to every two hours once I go to bed.

Anyone else been tempted to use them, used someone else..? I feel I need to do something before he starts crawling and can more easily fall out of bed.

[freelancegirl]

Used the Baby Sleep Site that should be, in first line.

[InmaculadaConcepcion]

I think the difference is if you've paid for something, you're more likely to stick at it than if you hadn't..!

[freelancegirl]

Yes I agree with you snow and IC! I go through phases of tiredness and frustration and then other times am fine with it. That's why I'm torn between just carrying on as we are and enjoying it! It probably doesn't help that we travel around a lot and have active social lives that disrupt DS from having much of a routine for long. I emailed the sleep site to ask about this and as to how long, if we were to do the sleep training, we would need to be in one place and they said two weeks - which we could do. And paying for it might help yes! Or of course just be something else I've paid for and not given it my best shot / not worked.

Is your DS crawling yet more snow? Where do you put him to sleep when you're not ready for bed?

[freelancegirl]

Gosh crawling at 5 months is really early isn't it? I think! DS isn't yet crawling at almost 9 1/2. He likes a roll around though and is a chunky thing so am thinking he'll get there soon :) We have his cot next to one side of the bed so that acts like a rail as well as an empty storage space

I'm sorry - I can't go on. We've just had I can't believe we've completely screwed up for months moment! As I was typing this I asked DH about converting the cot into a cot bed to have alongside the bed instead. As maybe it would be easy than trying to lower it into the cot. He suggested taking one side off. It turns out that when I asked him 5 MONTHS AGO whether one side could come off and HE SAID NO. What he thought I was asking was could it be lowered like, well, those cots that have a lowered side. He said had I said 'can one side come off' instead of 'can one side come DOWN' he would have known what I was talking about. Of course I could have looked up our model of the cot too so we have both screwed up. But it turns out that ALL THIS TIME I could have done what I long wished I could have done and have him in a makeshift (making it safe of course) side sleeper, trying to shuffle him over and get him used to the cot a bit that way.

5 MONTHS AGO!! Aggh!

Oh I go to bed around 10-11pm but he wakes every half an hour or so before that anyway so am up and down the stairs. If he was crawling it would be different as at the moment he can be hemmed in by pillows at the side of the bed. I alsp paranoid first time mother have him on a breathing monitor and audio monitor but have been considering video too.

DH is off to take one side off the cot. We both laughed so much we cried! 5 bloody months!!!

[InmaculadaConcepcion]

Ha ha ha!! Sounds like you now have the same arrangement as us free!! Good luck, hope it helps xx