Sleep training
I am desperate to sleep train my six month old but I am majorly failing. I can’t hear her cry. So I cave & hold her to sleep.
Can anyone recommend a successful method please. Or a sleep trainer based in spring/ woodlands area
Help!
Thank you !!!
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When my 6 month old started waking every hour to eat, one thing that worked for us was to not feed until a certain time - for example no feeding until 11, then 2, then 5. After awhile no feeding until 11:30, then 3, then 6:30 etc until there was only one feeding. At first, it was less sleep because I had to rock her until feeding time. But eventually she just woke up once or twice. So if feeding seems to be the isssue, this is one way to get longer stretches without crying. No matter what you do, it’ll get better eventually. Hang in there!
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So I can’t stand to hear my baby cry either so I dreaded sleep training. When she turned 10 months, I started the chair method of sleep training and the first night she did cry for 40 minutes but I was right next to her, holding her hand, rubbing her back, singing to her etc so the crying didn’t hurt me like normal because she wasn’t crying alone. So anyways. First night 40 minutes. Second night 25 minutes, third night 10 minutes. Now it takes her 4 minutes to lay down and go to sleep. Side note, she only cried bad the first night. Second night she whined here and there but has never cried again and she actually sleeps through the night since we did that. She would wake up 2-3 times before we did this. Worth it!