I am starting sleep training tonight. Wish me luck!

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Dd is 9mo and feeds to sleep and wakes around 5x a night and again feeds to sleep.
Tonight we start a month long programme of sleep training, basically of gradual retreat with slow night weaning.
Tonight she will feed before her bath and dh will cuddle her to sleep. I am only going to breast feed twice, with a 4 hr gap between feeds. Other wake ups she will be cuddled to sleep.
I am nervous.

Good luck, here's a very unmumsnetty xoxoxox

Oh gosh! good luck with that.

how did it go? DS is 11.5mo and have recently stopped feeding to sleep at bedtime and putting him down awake and just staying with him til he falls asleep on his own, but that's as far as I've got with sleep training. He still wakes 2/3 a night and I feed him back to sleep. Am starting to think about night weaning but not sure when or how...

Starting tonight flipflop! Am not honestly convinced it is going to work, but here's hoping I can leave the bleary eyes brigade eventually.
We got our plan from millpond.

Good luck! Be strong - its worth it. We've had to do it a few times with DD (now 17 months) and each time, although depressed that we have to repeat it, and grim for a few nights, I wonder why we didn't do it earlier. Everyone happier

Good luck! I have sleep trained both my boys and it was so worth it. Much happier boys and parents!

How did bedtime go?

Just wondering what the step after this is..? Are you going to night wean completely? Sorry just nosey! Good luck!! X

We did this at 9 months. We didn't cuddle to sleep though just put DS in his cot and did gradual retreat from there. Don't really understand why you are adding in an extra step that I presume you will eventually want to take away thus have to start all over again?

Good luck. It's so hard but worth every minute of it to have a sleep issue sorted. I remember the first time DS slept through after doing CC and feeling like id been on a week long holiday overnight!

Thank you all. The first night was not too bad. She cried for 10 mins in dh's arms before falling to sleep, and I only fed her twice in the night. (I know that seems a lot in a 9 mo) but 6x is not unheard of for us ).
Sharond I see your point but it is because she has only ever fed to sleep and is supposed to be a little more gentle. I suppose it does mean the next step will be harder than the first one but hey ho, we'll get there eventually.

I was in a similar situation which was why I queried your method. DS was swaddled and fed to sleep and we went just went cold turkey and one night put him in his cot. I stayed by his side and stroked his face and he went to sleep in 20 minutes. After a few nights of this he got bored of me and wanted none of the stroking. He rolled over closed his eyes and went to sleep. Since then he refuses to be rocked or fed to sleep. He just wants to cuddle into his shawl in his cot.