Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Behaviour/development

Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

Sleep training

5 replies

SweetLikeChocolate · 20/06/2012 13:07

Hi. My DD is coming up for 7 months now and I am a little confused on sleep training. She is now mainly bottle fed (early morning breast feed) and is doing well with her solids , enjoying 3 meals a day plus bottles. I know she is getting enough food but she has been waking At night - often twice. The 4am wake up was happening at the same time every night so I have taken it for habit and am trying to get her to give it up. I have taken to giving her a dream feed at midnight but to be honest she doesn't really want it but if I don't give it she is up at 3. If I do give it she still wakes at 4. Regardless of it being a 3 or 4 waking she still wakes at 5.30 on the dot at which point I breast feed her in my bed and we go back to sleep until 7. What am I doing wrong? We are on day 5 and she cries the same amount (30 mins) before settling herself again whether she wakes at 3 or at 4..... And then she wakes again at 5.30.... It seems like a pointless exercise. I may as well just go to her and give her a feed at 3 or 4 and then she might sleep through to 7..... Any advice? I should also mention that she is great at settling herself as I usually put her down for naps and sleeps awake with her dummy and teddy and she puts herself to sleep. It is only this 3 /4 wake up when she cries. I don't like it but apparently it needs to be done for them to learn to sleep healthily.....??????

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
hardboiledpossum · 20/06/2012 13:12

Who said that it needs to be done?! If you are happy to carry on feeding her then it isn't a problem and eventually she will grow out of it on her own. If you do want to stop feeding but don't want to leave her to cry then you could try another method. What are you doing at the moment?

TheGalliantLadyDidymus · 20/06/2012 13:27

i may as well In at 3 or 4 and feed her

Yep, just that. Babies don't need to be sleep trained to be healthy. What tosh. Who told you that?

7 months is still quite young so 1/2 night Watkins isn't that bad. If feeding her gets her back to sleep quicker then just do it. No point her screaming for a hour and you being awake listening to it if a feed will settle her back to sleep in 10 minutes.

Think of sleeping through as a developmental step like walking or talking. You can gently encourage it but ultimately they'll do it when they are ready.

My ds2 went from waking every 2 hours every night to sleeping 12 hours straight through over night when he was 14 ish months old. We co-slept to make the night Wakings easier.

TheGalliantLadyDidymus · 20/06/2012 13:29

Sorry, that was meant to say

I may as well just go into her and give her a feed at 3 or 4

TheGalliantLadyDidymus · 20/06/2012 13:30

Omg Blush Just ignore the rest of the typos please.

SweetLikeChocolate · 20/06/2012 17:59

I am 2 minds about stopping. However it seems to be happening as I have less and less milk with only the early morning feed left. But actually that is my favourite so I am ok. Mainly I want her to be happy and getting enough sleep. I feel she could be going all the way through and simply isn't out of habit.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page