Lucy Wolfe - success stories?

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Hi all!

Can't believe I've only just signed up to mumsnet 6 months in... Also can't believe I can't find more threads on this!

We are just about to move DD into her own room (after colds, eczema and all the reasons/excuses not to...) and are considering sleep training (shock, horror!) as I'm now back at work and her sleep seems to now be worse than when she was a newborn! Also, she's a chunky baby so rocking her to sleep every night is actually doing my back in!!!

I've read the Lucy Wolfe, Baby Sleep Solution book and her day time routine is already quite similar but it's the self settling I'm desperate for! Like that her method seems a lot softer than Richard Ferber, for example, BUT does it actually work?

Also, plan is to put her in own room immediately and start the training (and remove dummy - this adds to the night wakings!). Too brutal?

Advice please! Preferably without judgement please...

Big love x

It worked for us. We just used it to stop feeding to sleep and I'd say it took maybe three nights? She was never left to cry, as per the method. I sat beside her and stroked her head, sang to her, made silly noises to distract her etc. That was about five months. She's now 9 months and since then she has gone to bed by 7 without fail every single night, just into her cot and asleep quite happily.

We've never had particularly bad overnight wakeups so I haven't used it for that, however just the bedtime stuff seemed to improve her overnight sleep anyway.

@Celebelly Thanks so much for this! Sounds like it worked well for you and wasn't too stressful! We'll start tomorrow

@Celebelly Meant to ask, did you follow the suggested day time routine and milk 45 mins before bed too? I'm worried not giving her a feed before bed will make it harder to get her down! / more likely for her to wake up!

I didn't do the daytime stuff but her last breastfeed was about 45 mins before bed. I didn't find it made any difference v right before bed. Once we started solids, it sometimes ended up being even longer, although she gets a cup of water with dinner.