Hi everyone, really need some advice from mums who've successfully sleep trained their babies... I'm going back to work soon and my 8-month-old DS is still waking up 3-4 times a night :((( DH can't really help with night feeds but I won't be able to cope with waking up 3-4 times a night AND working full-time during the day soooo I think I'll have to sleep train him!!!
At the moment, he wakes up for the day around 7.30am, has a 60-90minute nap around 10.30, another shorter nap around 3.30, and goes down for the night around 9pm, which I know is late if I put him down earlier, he would get up in the morning at 6!!! I can never get him to sleep more than 10 hours or so at night.
So after 9pm, he usually wakes up around 1am, at which point I'd feed him (only 3 ounces). Then he sleeps for another 3 hours or so, wakes up around 5am, at which point I'd feed him again (only 3 ounces), and bring him into bed with me. He usually wakes up again around 6.30 or 7 but I would pat him on his back to encourage him to stay down for a bit longer. And this would be a fairly GOOD night! On a bad night, he would wake up a couple more times but I never feed him more than twice a night. BUT on the other hand, he can sometimes do a 6 or 7-hour stretch, which is DIVINE but this only happens very rarely, maybe once in a fortnight!!!! He regularly did a 6 or 7-hour stretch when he was 3-4 months old but for the last few months he's gone back to doing just a 4-hour stretch :(((((
I'm not opposed to CC - in fact I did CC when he was 3 months to make him sleep in his cot and it worked well. But now I don't know if I should do CC and cut out all night feeds, or still feed him once or twice a night, but try to extend the first stretch at least?
I'm not that 'greedy' - if I can make him consistently sleep a 6 or 7-hour stretch at the beginning of the night I'd consider that a success!!!
Really not looking forward to waking up 3-4 times a night and working a full day so am quite desperate now please share your advice/ personal experience with sleep training. Thanks in advance!
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mackoo0524 · 19/05/2017 12:26
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