Whats' your sleeping through the night tip?

[peaches27]

Sleeping through the night hints and tips - how do you get em to do it and what is the secret of your success? OK Ive read Gina Ford and I dont want to get up at 7am thank you ... I am also worried about my mums favourite tip (rusk in the bottle).

I tried hungrier baby milk at night on advice of HV but she sicked most of it up and her vomit was really thick and curdy.

I was just wanting to collect together a thread of everyones tips or experiences of going through the night, but looking at it, there is no real common ground. They either do or they dont.

Swaddle firmly for the first 12 weeks/ 12 lbs
then into a gro bag some babies still like their arms held in which case tuck them inside making sure that they cannot slip down inside the bag, a row of tacking stitches across the bottom is sometimes needed.
Blackout blinds and curtains.
Introduce a dream feed from 10 weeks onwards.
If you can face it try resettling at night before offering food as often babies are not hungery but are just not sure how to get themselves off to sleep againn after waking, although I fully understand why any mum feed straight away in the desperation to get back to bed and SLEEP!

I'm with Jambot on this one...

Call me old fashioned but I think a routine for night time...
I used to wake both of mine at about 10pm to give them a bath.. at first they hated it! screamed the house down, so I used to do it as quick as possible, then give them a massage and a bottle in a darkened room. the next feed was roughly 4 hours later.. say 2:30am. I would feed as soon as they started crying and again feed in a quiet darkened room.. no eye contact.. talking... then put them down again, till they woke up about 6:30/7:00am... I did this every night.. soon they enjoyed their bath, and they started to wake later and later so their 2:30 feed went to 3:30 then 4:30 till at 7 weeks they were sleeping though till about 7am. I then moved the bedtime forward half an hour to an hour each week.. till at 10/11 weeks they were sleeping though...

I thought that I was just lucky with daughter untill I did the same with son with the same results...

sounds like your doing a good job with her
does she have a comforter like a muslin or nappy to hold?