Will be baby REALLY eventually sleep through the night without some form of CC?

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I am so reluctant to do CC and have been told if my heart is not in it really don't bother.

My question is though, will my 7 month old DD who just started weaning ever sleep through without some form of training? She was EFB until weaning, now I have tried combo of a formula feed late, or in the middle of the night, but it actually seems to wake her up!

She has me up at least twice usually 3 times a night at the mo.

Have you thought about pick up put down? My SIL used this to great effect at around 15 months for dn who was waking hourly - fed bf to sleep and at wakings prior I think...

May take a while but all mine did so eventually. I tried CC with my youngest and worst sleeper and it worked for one night and then back to square one!

Yes they will. DS took until he was 1 to sleep through (he was desperatly hungry in the night, so would feed and sleep immediatly), but since then sleeps like a log and never, ever wakes.

Yes

ds1 slept through at 14 weeks
ds2 slept through at 7 months

No controlled crying, pick up put down etc etc involved.

I believe so, yes, when the time is right for them!

Thanks so much for all your advice - good to know it all just clicked for some of you eventually!

sedgiebaby - I feel incredibly lucky that to date she seems so content - besides the waking for feeds - that I wasn't even sure about trying PUPD and risking unsettling her.

I am shattered, but as I'm not working at the mo, happy to put up wth it if it's what's best - despite LOTS of pressure from other people more determined to get her into a routine than me!!

That said I am swayed by the argument that a routine, while at first seeming unsettling is what makes a thriving and content baby in the long run?!

As you can probably tell - my first!!!

If some day you do break and try some form of CC, please don't beat yourself up or feel you've failed. Do also realise that some babies need peace and lack of stimulation to sleep, some also cry/grizzle themselves to sleep.

But whatever you do, unless your child has a SN they will get themselves to sleep with no input from you by the time they are 18. So something is going to happen between now and then.

Elizabeth Pantley - if you really can't do CC

I more or less follow Gina Ford routines without having to use CC. Her routines make sure thatyour baby feeds most during the day and gets most sleep at night. I use alternative ways of getting my baby to sleep, ie shush pat and rocking and singing. And i always make sure that my ds goes into the cot drowsy but slightly awake. At 7 months he still used to wake for a feed so my husband settled him instead, using above methods. We got it out of his system fairly quickly and now he sleeps through most nights. Sometimes he wakes early in the morning and i feed him straight away because this is the most successful way of getting him back to sleep.
Anyway, to answer your question- youdonot need to leave your baby to cry to get him to sleep through, there are other ways. My DS is 10 months old btw.
HTH

Don't feel bad, my first slept through at 10 weeks or so, as in 11 hours a night and has rarely woken up during the night since (nearly 3 years old now). We co-slept for first 6 months and I did no sleep training of any sort.

Dd2 however is 7 months old and wakes 3 times a night and sometimes is awake for a couple of hours. I'm desperately hoping she will sleep through without any dreaded "sleep training" from me... No way I'm doing cc though.

Ever sleep through with no CC = yes.

But.....it might not be for a very long time....

DD was 27 months.

Thanks all - it's really helpful... She's had her worst week so far this week - but I'm putting that down to tooth 2 and getting used to solids?

7 months is still incredibly young to be sleeping through the night. I know that's not what you want to hear right now. There are so many things people try, and so many different types of baby... it's hard to pinpoint which tactics work and which don't. Give yourself a break - you're not doing anything wrong, you're doing what you believe is best for your little girl.

The thing that worked for us was getting our little boy to self-settle for naps in the day. As soon as he cracked that, he was better able to self-settle when he woke at night.

Good luck xxx

mamalazarou please expand "getting our little boy to self-settle for naps" - how?