Sleep coaches/guides

Honestly I never thought I’d consider this but after 5 months of sleeping a max of 3 hours every night I’m gonna exhaust all options. My LO has terrible sleep, we were lucky that he used to do a 4 hour stretch and then wake every hour. He hit the regression and was waking every 30 minutes at night. We’re now in the other side but sleep is still poor and he can only sleep a max of 1.5-2 hours if I’m lucky at night before waking. I feel like we’ve tried everything at this point and still not sleeping. I’m due to go back to work in the next couple months and I just cannot imagine working when I’m not getting a decent night sleep. So has anyone used any sleep guides or sleep coaches that have actually helped and worked. Or just any tips or suggestions at all?? Everyone keeps saying it’ll get better but it hasn’t and I can’t just sit and wait for him to magically start sleeping…. He’s EBF and we already co-sleep and be only contact naps.

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Same boat so no advice but you’re not alone - following in case someone has some sort of spell 🪄

You’ve probably tried this but have you tried extending wake windows and reducing total nap time? We did this for our little girl and she’s now only waking once a night. I realised she wasn’t actually that tired and I was napping her too soon xx

@Charlotte we trialled with 3 naps a day and also reduced total nap time and we had two good nights but then after that he went back to waking hourly again. How often and how long for does your LO nap?

Yeah I want to try and reduce total nap time but it's so hard as my boy gets so grumpy

Aw that’s really tough. She tends to nap every 2-2.5 hours and she’ll do 2 x 45 min naps and 1 x 1.5 contact nap. Or if it doesn’t time right, she’ll do 4 x 45 min naps. Every hour is so tough. mothernourishnurture is a great sleep coach but I don’t think she advocates for sleep training. She offers gentle tweaks to help things. It won’t always be like this. You’re doing so well xx

Do you have white noise on at night? We’ve started having it on all night when my LO started teething and it’s really made a difference so far with her wakings. Hoping this isn’t just a fluke 🤞🏻

I was in same position and found soundasleepguru on IG, we paid for support and our LO sleep was transformed within 3 days. He was cosleeping for parts of the night, rocked to sleep and contact napping. Now he does all naps in his crib and sleeps through the night. Expensive but best money we've spent, as i knew if I wanted to sleep train I wanted to do it properly and they were amazing

In the same boat here 🙈

There’s a Facebook group called ‘ respectful sleep training / learning ‘ it’s full of lots and lots of information including guides - it can seem over whelming but gives lots of theory on sleep training

Extending wake time is what worked for us, LO does best with consistent 3 hour wake windows or 2.5 minimum, naps around 2.5 hours total during the day.

Cut contacts naps and did the feber method worked with both my sons x

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