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Has anyone started the EASY routine with 7 month old?

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Falsley · 11/05/2011 10:30

Hi,
My DD has started waking up at about 3:30 - 4:00 in the morning and then not being able to stay asleep unless I'm in the room. I don't need to be holding her or anything but need to be sitting in a chair beside her cot, sometimes with my hand on her chest.
Habing been up from 3:30 (also had a half hour wake up at 1:30) at 6am my DP got up so I put DD on the bed on his side and we slept until 8.45 so I'm not too sleep deprived but am worried that we will get into a bad sleep habit.
I did PU/PD when she was 6 months which got her to sleep in her cot ut we seem to have regressed a bit now.
What I'mn wondering is if implementing the EASY routine would help, if it is possible at 7 months and is it worth it as I go back to work in two months so will it go out the window then anyway?

Sorry this is a bit long (maybe I am sleep deprived afterall ), any help/advise would be welcome,
TIA

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BlueberryPancake · 11/05/2011 10:44

OK well I don't know what kind of other responses you will get but I think that sleep patterns should not be seen as progressive thing. Most babies will sleep through and then stop sleeping through when they are ill, and you will hare to cope with lots of situations when your baby will start waking up for verious reasons - at milestones for example, when she will start sitting up or walking. Sleep is not something that babies 'get' and then that's it forever.

She will start waking up when she is teething and that will mess up her sleeping pattern. Also she might do that when you introduce new solids. The books won't say that because they see sleep as an issue to solve, not to deal with as it comes.

I don't have a solution for you except that do what works for her, now. I would try to avoid putting her in your bed but hey I did it with both my children (and still do sometimes, they are 4 and 5!).

Good luck.

matana · 12/05/2011 10:34

Not sure EASY works for any baby tbh, mainly because when they're newborn they do exactly what they need to do when they need to do it and can't be forced and then, when they're older you can do EASY but it actually becomes EASYAE because they go longer without needing sleep/ food and then start dropping naps/ milk feeds etc etc. It's ok as a rough guide, but if my DS is sleepier, more wakeful or hungrier than usual due to growth spurts, illness or developmental milestones it all gets thrown out of sync very quickly.

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Falsley · 13/05/2011 17:26

Thanks both for the responses, I've been off line for a few days so have not been able to respond before now.
Its not really what I wanted to hear but what you say makes sense and I need to go with what my DD needs.
I think we may have half sorted the sleeping problem. her bedroom was very light so we have covered the window with towells to make it darker and she slept much better so think we will be buying a blackout blind in the next day or so!

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Octaviapink · 13/05/2011 18:14

I've never thought the eat-activity-sleep thing made any sense at all because they sleep far better with a full tummy than an empty one.

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Falsley · 13/05/2011 19:29

hmmmmm.... Good point Octavia!
I guess the only thing it does is break the link between feeding and sleeping and stops you feeding them to sleep which I must admit I am guilty of somtimes doing !

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Octaviapink · 13/05/2011 20:36

Meh. It's easy enough to break when they're older, I think. It wasn't a problem with DD and now DS sometimes feeds to sleep and sometimes chats himself to sleep after a feed.

matana · 13/05/2011 22:29

Ooooh, i love it when they chat themselves to sleep. DS does it a lot. He sounds so happy it melts my heart.

PrettyCandles · 13/05/2011 22:34

I did EASY with my first two dc - I had not heard of it at the time, it just seemed to make sense to me to feed the babies when they woke - and it worked very well for us. They slept well and self-settled day and night. With dc3 I got into a feed-to-sleep rut and it was an absolute nightmare. He could not go to sleep or stay asleep with my boob.

PrettyCandles · 13/05/2011 22:37

Not all babies wake when they are teething. My first two never did. My third did - until he had learned to sleep through without me, after which he rarely woke when he was teething.

oska · 13/05/2011 22:38

EASY is quite hard to follow without feeling a bit of a failure!!! But BW has good points on getting babies to sleep thru, the pick up put down worked wonders for us, took a couple of weeks tho. At 7 months check their daily nutrition, could be hunger or just a change in development. Have used PUPD method more than once as DS has developed and goes through changes which cause sleeplessness. Dont let them cry it out whatever you do as his will cause insecurity and make the problem worse. Good luck!

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