tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post1099593957425364271..comments2023-08-22T01:59:18.988-06:00Comments on My Baby Sleep Guide | Your sleep problems, solved!: The Key To Sleep Training Success - ConsistencyRachel Rowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02160855322599826360noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-18740008723384885552016-04-20T16:48:42.904-06:002016-04-20T16:48:42.904-06:00Hi Rachel
Thank you in Advance if you respond i re...Hi Rachel<br />Thank you in Advance if you respond i read your blog like a book, i can't miss a page.<br />My question is my 4 month old is not sttn however is down at 7pm self settled with help of a baby shusher, naps really well with no fuss but wakes every night between 2-4am we recently started a dream feed at 10.30pm a week ago but shes still waking, previous to this she would just sleep through till 3am,shes gaining weight well, -should we just drop the df or keep at it, i am assuming its habitual waking now for the second feed.<br />Thank you <br />Justine Justine59https://www.blogger.com/profile/13966440129359557172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-52724408959792104512016-02-29T12:49:08.279-07:002016-02-29T12:49:08.279-07:00Hi Rachel, I love your website, and I've been ...Hi Rachel, I love your website, and I've been reading it since LO was about 5-6 weeks, but I have a question for you. She is 18.5 weeks now, and I'm pretty sure we are in the four month sleep regression, because she's been STTN for weeks (I was pretty religious about putting her down drowsy but awake starting at week 10), and she still seems to be doing that. However, naps are a disaster. She was a brutal catnapper until about three weeks ago, when her morning naps finally got closer to two hours, and I was putting her down in the crib for all naps drowsy but awake. That was progressively harder as the day went on, and sometimes the late afternoon cat nap ended up being in the baby carrier out for a walk. Fast forward to 5 days ago--it's like a switch flipped and LO will not go down for naps at all without bouncing, pacifier/my finger or being held. I feel like I'm undoing all my sleep coaching hard work from weeks ago, but I don't know that CIO for naps will work, and I'm confused how she can self-soothe at night, but never during the day...<br /><br />Thanks,<br />AdAbby Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05373467969802194351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-78949986644132660522015-11-01T22:24:43.625-07:002015-11-01T22:24:43.625-07:00Lydia Browning,
Great question! I have found that...Lydia Browning,<br />Great question! I have found that babies will learn to sleep well even with this conflict. They learn to fall asleep and stay asleep and just wake when they are hungry. BUT, you have a very good point. I think that sleep training has potential to happen sooner if you consider doing couple things first 1) train at bedtime first. Once baby has bedtime down well, he may stop waking up as much at night all by himself 2) feed at night wakings, but work on weaning from each one until baby no longer is used to eating then and hopefully doesn't wake for the feed anymore--this may or may not be successful and it is more likely to be successful if baby knows how to fall asleep and stay asleep on his own 3) wake baby up 30-60 minutes before he normally wakes up and then feed him. <br /><br />Overall, you just have to do your best to be consistent! I will write down to do a post about this in better detail and organization later. <br /><br />best,<br />rachelRachel Rowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02160855322599826360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-23434200991403518392015-10-18T00:24:21.629-06:002015-10-18T00:24:21.629-06:00I'm interested in this too. I'm trying to ...I'm interested in this too. I'm trying to teach my little one to fall asleep himself at night but he wakes wanting food through the night and I'm not sure if I should feed or hold out. Chloehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04018428103165560717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-43432888548626560352015-10-18T00:24:20.186-06:002015-10-18T00:24:20.186-06:00I'm interested in this too. I'm trying to ...I'm interested in this too. I'm trying to teach my little one to fall asleep himself at night but he wakes wanting food through the night and I'm not sure if I should feed or hold out. Chloehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04018428103165560717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-60755204371438139302015-10-18T00:24:01.401-06:002015-10-18T00:24:01.401-06:00I'm interested in this too. I'm trying to ...I'm interested in this too. I'm trying to teach my little one to fall asleep himself at night but he wakes wanting food through the night and I'm not sure if I should feed or hold out. Chloehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04018428103165560717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-70075955367833122672015-01-21T13:03:33.730-07:002015-01-21T13:03:33.730-07:00Great encouragement! Quick question - how does one...Great encouragement! Quick question - how does one communicate consistency while breaking the nursing-to-sleep association when baby may still need to eat in the night (less than 6 mo old)? I feel like baby won't understand why she gets milk sometimes in the night and not others, and that sleep training will continue to fail as a result. Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01180024466311574166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-67076981302489632052014-10-06T11:23:47.827-06:002014-10-06T11:23:47.827-06:00Hi,
My LO is 20 weeks now and had been sleeping te...Hi,<br />My LO is 20 weeks now and had been sleeping terribly up until this past week. Her naps were very short 30-45min (mostly 30). She would sleep for a few hours and night then wake very frequently till morning. What's worse was how long it took us to put her down for bedtime and naps. Sometimes we would have to pull out every trick to soothe her -- rocking, running water tap, singing, bouncing in our arms. It could take up to two hours. <br /><br />Finally we couldn't take it anymore and did CIO for 3 night. First night was intermittent crying here and there, second night longest cry was 1.5 hours. Third night she only cried one hour. Fourth night she didn't cry. Woke up for a feed and went back to sleep easily.<br />Our intent for CIO was not for her to sleep through because she still needs one feed as per our pediatrician, but she gave us the ok to let her cry.<br /><br />Now she sleeps much better. Longer naps (45-1.5hr) and much easier to settle. We just sit and read a book, lullaby, and she gets drowsy enough that we can put her in bed and she dozes off while her eyes flutter. I know she has learned some self soothing cause she does this head bobble thing and covers her eyes o fall asleep when she wakes at night. <br />Problem is tho, sometimes her eyes pop wide awake after we put down. I know we supposed to practice "put down drowsy but awake". But what do we actually do? Ideally we should catch the sleepy window and she dozes right off, but sometimes she doesn't, then do we just leave and let her cry?<br /><br />when she does, we start to hum and give her a few pats and she goes back to sleep. She also has a pacifier that she uses. She doesn't always fuss when it falls out and we haven't had to go in multiples times to replace, we are hoping to be able to teach her to grab and put it in her own mouth in the future. We find it helps sooth her and don't want to take it away. <br /><br />can you please provide some thoughts as to how we are doing so far? Anything need tweaking? I don't know if we are still doing too much by having to still pat her to get her to doze off completely. I'm happy with how she is since she's sleeping much longer naps and nights than before. But don't want to be creating trouble for myself down the road. (Don't want to go from rocking for hours to patron to patting for hours)! Thanks!!Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06913587659852444979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-57835419163359395882014-08-12T08:25:43.751-06:002014-08-12T08:25:43.751-06:00Thank you. This is actually very helpful and very ...Thank you. This is actually very helpful and very realistic plan. <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09227282820729849054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-53966290404071207092014-08-12T08:13:19.113-06:002014-08-12T08:13:19.113-06:00Hi Rachel,
So LO has been sleeping STTN for the l...Hi Rachel, <br />So LO has been sleeping STTN for the last 2.5 months. He has always taken naps well and slept at night well even before STTN with just one or two wakings to eat. So I felt that he was waking because of habit not a need so I did CIO for a few days and he's been STTN since (with exception to a Dream Feed that he didn't actually wake for)...Until now. So he turned 6 months a few days ago and for the last few weeks he has not been taking his last nap even though he seems to still need it and he has been waking up a lot at night. He's the baby that if I go in I or my husband goes in we are committing to either rocking or feeding him. So we try to give him 15-20min and sometimes he will go back to sleep but not most of the time the other day I gave him an hr. and he just cried. I'm usually consistent but with this is't so out of his ordinary I'm not sure what to do. Because before this after he was STTN if he woke up and cried it was for a need. I have looked over a lot of your blog and so I did try changing his bed time to an earlier time also I am trying my best to make sure he's fully nursing at his feedings (he is super distracted) so this is what his schedule looked like and what it is now. He's on an E/P/S schedule. <br />7am eat<br />8:30 nap (2 hrs)<br />11:00 eat<br />1:00 nap (2hrs)<br />3:00 eat <br />4:30 nap (1hr)<br />7:30 bed time<br />10:00 dream feed<br />then a few weeks ago he started not napping at the 4:30 so a few days ago I tried putting him down about 6:45 and one out of a few days he didn't wakeup until 6:45am but the rest of the days he did still wake up a lot . I am hesitant to do CIO again because I feel like it's most likely more than just a leap. I think it has more to do with him not taking that last nap and possibly being hungry from being so distracted. He has been waking up on his own (which he didn't used to) at 9:30pm so I have been going ahead and feeding him since it's close to his dream feed. Then he wakes up multiple times and if it's before 2:30am he will go back to sleep on his own if it's after I still try to give him time to Self sooth but I end up going in an nursing him and he will sleep until at least 6. I know as soon as you think you have something figured out they change it on you. I'm just trying to figure out what the new need is for this change. I am sorry this is so long and I hope it's not to confusing. Please let me know if you have any thought. Thanks.JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788705276082354092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230077724876087121.post-59486333278328009362014-08-12T07:47:35.664-06:002014-08-12T07:47:35.664-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788705276082354092noreply@blogger.com