Anyone had to revisit Ferber after initial sleep training success?

[ginmojito]

After some advice and to see if others have had similar experience?

We sleep trained our baby at 6 months using the Ferber method and had great success after a few days. For 2 months she had fantastic sleep - falling asleep independently at naps and bedtime. There were night wakings but she would cry for 2-13 minutes and then put herself back to sleep without any intervention from us.

About a month ago she had a cold, cut 2 teeth and has started to become more mobile. Night wakings increased (probably co inciding with sleep changes at 8 months old) and when we went in after 20 minutes, she became much more difficult to settle.

Fast forward a few weeks and my baby who had been night weaned for 2 months is now waking most nights and to settle her I am giving her a breastfeed once a night. This happened gradually …I am keen not to feed at night if possible so had tried to put it off! (she is eating solids in the day albeit with moderate success)

I think it has become a habit now - she has a big feed at bedtime (7pm) and tends to wake at 11pm when she gets a feed. I still leave her 10-15 minutes to see if she settles herself but the pattern of late is that she doesn’t.

Has anyone else had similar? I am considering revisiting Ferber method formally to try and get back to where we were … has anyone else done this? Any thoughts?

Thank you!

I would just feed her once in the night if that is what it takes. Sounds perfectly reasonable if it's just one night waking.
If her solid intake isn't that great then she might need extra milk.
Also a night feed is going to boost your prolactin levels...maybe she is trying to boost the milk supply through the 24 day...babies are wired to feed at night for that reason.
Also teething continues for ages...a quick comfort feed does no harm to naps and self settling...babies still are babies not little mechanical devices

I don't want to worry you but you may have increased her need for comfort cuddles by leaving her to cry for 20 mins. It's a very long time ...she now may need more reassurance not less.
I would go in the minute she cries and get her trusting you will meet her needs again. It's a peak separation anxiety age.
Google child development.
My babies were good at resettling and good sleepers overall (had good nap routine bedtime etc woke at reasonable hour in morning say 7.30/8am) so I don't think going in for a quick breastfeed does any harm whatsoever and it doesn't create "bad habits" if the rest of the framework is there.

@ginmojito Do you have any updates on how your ferber sleep training is going? Currently training our 10 month old and early days but not seeing much improvement