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Sleep Training - good books or advice

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Philippat · 25/07/2002 14:58

DH has decided it's time to sleep train dd!

Now, admittedly, she is 9 months and she's never been a great sleeper. I can handle it better than dh so for the last 3-ish months he's been sleeping down on the sofa and I've been in the bedroom with dd. I did have a bit of a moan yesterday after being up at 10.30pm, 11.30pm, 12am, 4am, but that was an unusually bad night (last night she went through until 6am)!

Anyway, he's probably right, after all we are both trying to cram full time jobs and looking after dd into not enough hours so more sleep would be nice. Not to mention sleeping together again. And my employer would probably prefer me to be awake enough to tackle things other than looking on mumsnet!

So, advice on how we should do it, or books we should read, please! He's stubborn enough to just let her cry but I couldn't do that - 15 minutes is my limit.

For the record, her cot is in our bedroom and house is too small to change that (although sofa does open out to double bed so we can sleep elsewhere!). She's bottle fed (b/f until 6 months) and eating a reasonable amount. Water does not settle her! She's a big old wriggler and moves around a lot in the cot so putting toys in is difficult. She's in a sleeping bag.

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Kanesmum · 29/07/2002 21:41

I haven't read all the threads but My DS went through a bad patch of sleeping at about 6mths. This was through being unwell and he had got into the habit of waking. I bought 'The Good Sleep guide for you and your baby' by Angela Henderson and started a sleep diary. Within two days he was sleeping through. Now DS is 13 mths and sleeps 12-13hrs every night. The book is really easy to read (not many pages) and its cheap. Good luck anyway.

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