Questions about co-sleeping and controlled crying

[MakeTeaNotWar]

I've been reading the other thread about CC and wasn't clear on exactly how it works....DS is 6 months and can be put in his cot awake and gets himself off to sleep. However he wakes every 1.5 hours during the night and I feed him as I don't want his crying to disturb DD. How could CC help here, is it to get babies off to sleep in the first place or do parents also use it to reduce frequent night wakings?

My second question relates to co-sleeping which I've also tried in an effort to get more sleep but the frequent night wakings are the same. Is the idea of co-sleeping that baby is more assured by my close proximity and therefore should wake less (which is not the case with us) or rather that night feeds are less disruptive as they can be done lying down in bed?

If you crack cosleeping, baby will wake up and feed themselves, you won't even have to wake up.

No idea re cc ax I haven't done it but I would think it could be done to reduce the night wakings, tho it sounds like your D's cans self settle so maybe he us hungry when he wakes or teething.

Re ci-sleeping, ijts both babies mash wake less but mainly it is that it's less disruptive than getting up, particularly as they get bigger and can help themselves (if bfeeding) so you don't/hardly wake :)

If you think he us just feeding for comfort you could try pantley pull off technique or shushpat etc rather than feeding at each wake up.

I've bed shared from birth. Rather than there being any crying baby in the night, he wakes, wriggles a bit, I point a boob in his direction, he feeds and we both go to sleep. I don't know how often he wakes, when he wakes etc as its all done half asleep. I think the theory is also they wake but fall back to sleep as are reassured. I don't know about that as am asleep.

I imagine the characteristics of the baby play a part, for example mine doesn't need winding so we can just go back to sleep. And you need to be able to feed lying down. And we have a tiny night light thing so we can match nipple and mouth in the near dark.

Works brilliantly for us.

To answer more specifically, I though with bed sharing they wake more, but it has less impact. I have some vague recollection of the waking being a good thing in relation to babies' sleep cycles and safety. So they wake but just go back to sleep rather than waking and calling out for company.