Talk to me about sleep training

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What did you do that worked? I won't do CIO.

DD is 8mo, exclusively breastfed. She used to self settle but since the 4 months sleep regression she's just got harder and harder to get to sleep. She just wants boob in her mouth from bedtime (around 7, she set that herself) until 11 or so. At 11 she'll generally go in to the cot in our room, or in our bed but not in her cot. She then wakes around 3 feeds, goes back to sleep.

The night waking I don't mind but I want to get my evenings back, I feel like a prisoner, I can't even get myself a drink or go to the loo!

Help!

*not in her cot in her own room

I also have a 3yo who was a nightmare sleeper until about 2.5, I don't want to repeat that. We tried various things with him but they didn't work. DD is a very different child though.

I followed the plan on this link, I think he was a little bit older but not much, and was breastfeeding to sleep. It worked really well, although there was some crying, but I managed to keep going because I was right there with him, so I didn’t feel I’d deserted him when he was upset.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sleep/1394888-What-worked-for-us-Hope-this-helps

If you don’t want to do cry it out, have you looked at the pick up pick down method? It’s a gentler version and one your partner can do.

Thanks, I'll take a look