No Cry Sleep Solution??

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Anyone used the book The No Cry Sleep Solution ?
Im curious (and/Or desperate!) for experiences with this, I’ve ordered the book because currently at my wits end with sleep!

5 month old DD, sleep regression hit at 3.5 months and has just got worse and worse. She won’t under any circumstances sleep in the car, the pushchair or the carrier. So it’s house arrest for us and an endless battle of feeding and rocking and placing in the crib. She sleeps best in the crib itself but will not fall asleep in there with any amount of patting, shushing or rocking.

naps sometimes happen but are short. Bedtime takes hours and hours and she’s awake every hour or less to be fed back to sleep and is often awake from 1am - 4am or thereabouts.

white noise has no effect, dream sheep had no effect, it’s always dark and quiet, it’s always either an appropriate wake window or most often when she shows tired cues, she’s actually started screaming at her consistent sleep associations now such as the lights going off or being placed in the cradle position which I don’t understand because we’ve never made sleep time stressful or negative.

I know she’s too young right now but If I get nothing from this no cry sleep solution I feel I’ll have nothing left but to do the Ferber method which I don’t really want to do and I doubt it’ll work as she screams the house down, I feel like she would just make herself sick.

I know it’s normal but at the same time I’m running out of ways to actually get her to sleep and not be overtired all the time. I try to be as consistent as possible but anything that seems to work only works for a day or two and then stops working completely

I'm no expert, but that doesn't sound like topic sleep regression situation. Any chance something else is wrong? Teething or illness? Uncomfortable in some way? I'd consider if a dose of calpol makes a difference - it's not a long term solution, but might give you a clue.

Otherwise, please hang in there! Most haveMUCH more routine naps and drop the long night wakings by 6 months. I know it's a bit of a killer while you're in it, but it passes and when to look back it seems a very short time.

Oh, and yes, i do have that book and found it really useful with my eldest.

Check out Lucy Wolfe on Instagram in the meantime. Her book is called the baby sleep solution but she also posts lots of free stuff on IG. Really helped me. Good luck!

I literally came on this thread to recommend this.

I saw it on a thread last week, I was desperate (I mean, I had paramedics out on Thur because I was suicidally sleep deprived), I bought it on Amazon Prime and it arrived the next day, I read it through sleep-deprived glazed eyes and started implementing on Friday as we needed 2 nights in a row when DH would be home. The first night was an awful stressful disaster. The second night onwards it's been working. DC2 has been sleeping by herself for two days now.

This is a EBF baby who has historically only fallen asleep next to me, latched onto the boob which she sleep-feeds for hours.

The only thing I don't like about this book is I didn't know about it for DC1.

I used the book Precious Little Sleep at 5 months with my DD and her sleep was amazing after a few days (but yes there was crying...). Went from same as you describe to one feed per night within a week. She's 3 now and still a good sleeper.

What I recommend is first teaching baby to fall asleep lying down, rather than nursing / rocking. If you can get her attached to a little tiny soft toy (keep in your bra/shirt for a few hours beforehand so it smells like you, then keep it with her all the time for a few days), that can help. I think the little £3.50 bunny from JoJo Maman Bebe is perfect personally. So night 1 is the big one: lie her down on your bed after a nice bath and solid bedtime routine, and bring her little soft toy, then you say something like "it's time to sleep now. I love you, goodnight" (say the same thing every night). Put on the white noise, turn off the lights and do whatever you can do to soothe her to sleep lying down (rub her cheek, pat her tummy, let her chew on the toy or suck your finger, sing a song over and over, shushing, whatever works for her). She will probably cry but you have to stick it out. Be there with her and persist in soothing her. She will learn in that first night how to fall asleep lying down. It might take an hour or so but you'll be right there with her. Do it again the next night and the next. She'll get faster at falling asleep. Slowly pull back on your soothing as she starts to get the hang of it. Eventually hopefully she'll be happy to cuddle her little toy and fall asleep on her own. Then put her in the cot one night and lie next to her to fall asleep.

Sleep training really helps and I found 5 months was a really good age to do it.