No Cry Sleep Solution - basic tenets?

[dorisbonkers]

Hi all, I bought the NCSS but it's found its way into bulk shipping (have just moved continent) and I won't be able to get my hands off it for weeks. I briefly skimmed the parts on the pull off technique but unsure of the rest.

Not sure sleep training will even work for my velcro baby but she's awful at napping and takes a heck of a lot of breastfeeding to get her to sleep and she's almost 7 months and I need a little teeny bit of sanity!

Thanks so much (any other advice welcome!)

I'm really just bumping this for you as I don't know if I'll be of help.

I didn't read the whole book (I'm terrible for that!) but what I did read gave me reassurances about my style of parenting.

The basic idea I took away from it was to replace one kind of comfort for another, rather than just abruptly stopping bf. And be prepared for it to take some time! Until ds was over a year he was bf to sleep and bf when he woke in the night (we're co-sleepers). Once I was confident that he didn't need the milk I began unlatching him before he fell asleep and started patting his back for comfort instead.

After a (long) while he no longer needed feeding to sleep or feeding in the night, and a reassuring hand on his back was all it took to get him off to sleep. He's 3 now and I still hold his hand while he falls asleep.

My dd is 10 months and I'll start it with her once she gets to 12/18 months. At the moment feeding is so effective at getting her off that I don't feel a need for change!

Hopefully someone else will come along with something more inciteful!