How long does it take for your baby to sleep through using the Gina Ford methods?

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I just started the Gina Ford routines for my 11 week old baby this week. How long does it take usually to get them to sleep through the night??!!! He is still waking twice a night...yawwwwwwn

Sorry forgot my lo is now 19mths and have had 4 disturbed nites due to illness since 12wks x

Forgot to mention I think wakings depends on size of baby and how much food can take at a time. Mine was 9lb 12oz so had an appetite to match and took about 6 oz per feed so could last longer between feeds

Can I just say that much as we can talk about GF on here now, it's a good idea if the comments aren't personal.

Not wanting to stop anyone posting.

Oh, no.

Just, you know...careful...

I threw BW and all my other parenting books out of the window as well if that helps

i did GF with dd (not fully baby boot camp style, just cherry picked which bits helped), took nearly 2.5 years for her to sleep through the night. doesn't matter what book you read, babies always have their own ideas

anyway, i would think that waking in the night at 11 weeks is normal. they only have tiny stomachs, so will naturally wake to feed. 6 months is a more realistic age to try and work on sleeping through the night.

Where is the OP ???

It's 11pm, she's in bed, LGJ

She'll be up at 6.45 to express...

probably feeding / changing / faffing like you do with an 11 week old

One of our number has just left here, with a big bag of stuff. If there is no Gap stuff in there when you see it, it has been rifled.

I did GF with DD from a week old. I did not use it rigidly but found the routine worked for me and dd.

She was sleeping from 7-7 from 6 weeks with a wake up and feed/change at 11pm. When I wenaed her at 4 months (on the advice from my health visitor not GF) she gradually went off last feed at 11pm and started sleeping through 7-7 from about 5 months.

I had and still have a very contented child and I am pregnant now and the book is on standby.

I know GF is not for everyone but she worked for us.I buy the book for my pg friends and say read it with an open mind and then decide if its for you and those who dismiss it straight away later admit to running to it after 6 months of sleepless nights!!

LOL LGJ! She was most cheerful about the prospect of getting first dibs Hope you've had a lovely day - TIA for the rifling bag, you fab thing you!

Crikey - i'm barely out of the door, and here you are, quick as a flash, talking about me.....

Do people assume that if you are doing GF then you are an advocate of CC? I never ever had to use CC but still found the routines worked well. Nor does GF actually advocate using CC, certainly not until the child is around 1?

aqua, you just need to be pragmatic; if you're following a routine that's keeping your baby happy and content, then you just have to accept the waking I think; there is no way I know of to stop them waking if they're going to. He obviously needs to and there's no changing that!

I think many people have night waking for MUCH longer than Gina says.

I followed her routine to a large degree and it suited us to a tee; DS was the archetypal contented baby and I was a blissed out mum most of the time.

However he woke in the night at about 3am for a long, long time.

It just happens, I think you may have to accept it for a while yet.

I followed GF book, but sticked to it when my baby was 3 mths old, it worked perfectly, sleeping through after 2 nights CC, she didnt cry much at all. Now she is 9 mths, but now started to wake up in the night once as she started to sit in the cot.
If you follow what she says( making sure she eats well during the day and naps max of hours she states, it normally works). I think the book is very helpful. Obviously I do not follow word by word. She is so content that all are asking me why she is so happy and hardly cries, I think its because she has a good routine. Sleeping through the night always helps as they get a good sleep and then they are happy during the day.