Where do I start, sleep training, need help??

[SLKsMum]

Help appreciated please. I have a seven month old son who is used to being held/cuddled to sleep then placed into his sleepyhead in his crib. He went into his own room and big cot bed last night but is still in his sleepyhead (which he's about to outgrow and husband refuses to let me buy the bigger one)! He has a dummy and is breastfed (wakes 3-4 times a night for a feed still)! I did gradual retreat with my daughter when she was 10 months old and it worked like a dream (we took the dummy away when she was 9 months). So I'd like to do gradual retreat with my son too but I don't know whether to take the dummy away and the sleepyhead away first? Both at the same time or one after the other? Which one first? I really want to start sleep training next Tuesday/weds as daughter will be in nursery and husband will be off work for a bit to help out too. I start back at work in a few weeks too and can't carry on this tired. Any advice will be greatly received... TIA XXX

I can give you good news but only due to training. Last week we had 3-4 wakings and feedings a night and a load of rocking after each one. Friday we started sleep training. Took away dummy and went with going back after 1 minute of crying to sooth, then 2 then 3 minutes. So no cry it out or anything like that but giving him the opportunity to self settle.

Day 1 was 90 minutes of that then only 2 wakings, day 2 was 35 minutes settling and 1 waking and day 3 was 3 minutes settling and no wakings!

So I wouldn't recommend taking anything away without starting some training too otherwise there's nothing to replace it.

Good luck x

I agree with Dappled. You need to get rid of sleep props and start sleep training at the same time - it most likely won't work otherwise.

Don't know if this will help but I balked at the price of the big sleepyhead too so what I've done is unzip the cover and remove the inner tube bit, and put that under the fitted cot bed sheets a bit like a bumper but obviously it's breatheable, I started with it in the sleepyhead shape and then gradually moved it wider giving baby more space.