Starting Controlled Crying Tonight 6 month old

[ChampooPapi]

So my baby is now 6 months old and I am starting Controlled Crying Tonight. I know some people don't agree with it and I do understand that but I have made my mind up to do this.

Advice needed on techniques, and also do you do the same for when you put them to bed as when they wake in the night?

It's cruel. Of course people that have done it will defend it, though.

The sheep of wall st you've put it perfectly.

thank goodness for the sense of the past 3 posters.

Good luck op. You'll get flamed.

FWIW we did CC from 6 months but only ever left it a few minutes before going in (not for normal fussing). Was sorted within a week.

Except motherofkitties 🙄

Neither of mine have needed feeding at night at six months? Why would they?

This is crazy

If they cry and you feed them then of course they will drink milk but it doesn't mean they are hungry, just unable to go back to sleep on their own.

Ugh. Put your baby first while they’re still SO little.

My DS cosleeps. Started sleeping through at 12 months.

All in his own time. We all get a great night’s sleep now.

I would never have put my needs before his so early on.

I find this bonkers with a baby so little. She still NEEDS milk in the night, and that arguably trumps your need for unbroken sleep.

Tell that to the mum who is broken by PND, exacerbated by lack of sleep.

Tell that to the mum of 3 under 4 who needs more than an hours sleep to function in the morning.

This is one of the most mum blaming, guilt tripping posts I have seen on here.

Some of you are so holier than thou.

Imagine a life where you can't be awake all night because, shock horror, you are a single parent and have to work in the morning. Therefore your sleep is very important to keep a roof over babies head.

Tell that to the mum of 3 under 4 who needs more than an hours sleep to function in the morning.

Isn’t that just lying in the bed she made?

Your poor baby. I get it, sleep deprivation is bloody hard. But your child needs to gently learn to stay asleep, and will need food during the night, not to be upset and ignored for 20 mins! If my husband left me crying for 20mins I'd think less of him. My son slept through eventually at 10 months using the no cry sleep solution which I would highly recommend. But this is a tiny baby!

So many sanctimummies on this thread. Don’t worry ladies I’m sure you’ll get a crown for your martyrdom.

Hope you and your baby get a great night’s sleep as soon as possible ChampooPapi.

Can I ask please, what sort of “sleeping through” are you aiming to achieve? Genuine, nor pointed, question.

(Mine is 7mo and I’m wondering at what point - meaning, how often are wakings - do people start to sleep train?)

I don’t have a horse in this race, am just curious.

When many say 'co-sleeping' what many mean is bed sharing, which is very different.

OP you know your situation and your baby. You just do you. Others can do themselves. After mismanaging my first baby's sleep I did controlled crying and it changed everything - as a forces wife I was often left hundreds of miles from family with a husband away for weeks on end and needed to sleep badly.

My other children never had a sleep issue because I learned from my mistake.

Try nethuns if you don't want the "holier than thous". In a way I think it's cruellest when breastfeeding. You can't load them up like you can with formula so she probably is hungry in the night.

So many sanctimummies on this thread. Don’t worry ladies I’m sure you’ll get a crown for your martyrdom.

Because we didn’t see our babies as being an inconvenience?

as a forces wife I was often left hundreds of miles from family with a husband away for weeks on end and needed to sleep badly.

Not forces but that was me.

I still didn’t do controlled crying.

@Whistle73 I agree with this. So much about infant sleep/feeding is about habit. I 100% agree that babies needs come first. I don't know any parent who can ignore a child's hungry cry. That's really not what this is. No one would do this if their children were starving and loosing weight. Many babies are capable of getting all their calories in the day time. Some arn't and that's ok. CC would not be for them.

@Jestem people who have done it will defend it. Equally people who are against it may never try it and so will have a preconceived idea that it is cruel. Thousands of mothers cannot just be selfish and cruel, surely.

Thousands of mothers cannot just be selfish and cruel, surely.

They can if they’ve been conditioned into thinking it’s the right thing to do.

There are mothers that think FGM is the right thing to do, FFS.

Babies born to mother goddesses who don’t need sleep I’m sure are never an inconvenience but for us mere humans sometimes our babies have to learn to live in a world where other people’s needs also matter, lest for instance their mummies crash the car and kill someone.

The cattle are lowing the baby awakes
But little lord jesus no crying he makes.
^Because Mary and Joseph thought he was a pain
So they read Gina Ford who said they should sleep train.

Op PLEASE don't do this. This is abuse!!!!!! Abuse at any age but SIX MONTHS?!?!??????

I won’t get into the rights and wrongs of controlled crying, but please do check with your health visitor or another professional about a six month old not needing milk for a whole night. Just from my own experience and those of friends and family, I’d be very surprised if a six month old would not need milk during the night. They may not be hungry as such but will probably get thirsty.

I remember the human dummy days, but I would have thought they were getting some at least some milk from you during the night.

2 DAYS ago the OP thought the baby might be teething.