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@Amanda would he cry or Would he scream? My son screams and it’s hard to listen to him 😢
Yes, he cries and screams when he’s frustrated. But he does learn how to do what is hard for him! He’s working on balance atm. He gets frustrated after he falls but I’ve just been aware and put pillows where he’s going to fall. I’m sure within a couple weeks he will figure out the balance. When he was learning to get up and down we would put him in his pack and play during the day and play peek a boo over it. Or use his activity cube and help him bend his legs to get up and down. It took a few days and he got it. But the week or so leading up to that when he was standing up and screaming because he couldn’t get back down was hard. I knew he was safe and he was fed and clean so it was okay to give him time and space to learn. Eventually he got tired and would figure it out. We have a monitor on him and we would check in when needed. But never do it for him.
We had the worst sleep regressions when he learned to sit up, roll from back to front and crawl. We haven’t sleep trained (yet lol) but it got better in a couple of weeks! Hang in there! Now he is pulling to stand in his crib when he doesn’t want to sleep…what gives haha. Such a double edge sword when they learn a new skill
My baby is also sleeping through the night and I didn’t sleep train, but I paid attention to sleep cues and wake windows and started putting my baby in the crib for naps around three months. He’s been sleeping through the night since aside from periods where he’s teething /sleep regressions of course but I feel like a baby should only scream for a very short period of time maybe one or two minutes if they’re overtired otherwise I feel like they need your attention or need something (hungry burp, diaper or teething?) If they’re crying, that’s understandable sometimes they are just frustrated or fussy And need a moment to fall asleep (I put my baby on his tummy and rub his back or pat it for a minute and it usually helps calm him - this is a method used in sleep training), but I think that having a shush sound machine that has sound detection (it turns on when baby cries) is pretty incredible and that tends to work if my baby wakes up in the middle of the night. Hope this helps!
Also I meant to ask if your baby is teething? That might be a reason?. Camilla teething drops are pretty great if so!
My baby has been sleep trained since 6.5 months. He is now sitting up on his own and will occasionally fight sleep time by immediately sitting up or even standing. We just leave. It usually takes anywhere from 1-8 minutes for him to settle. We go in at every 4 minutes and pat and say goodnight if he is crying until he falls asleep.
My sons nearly 11 months now and he was falling asleep on his own with his bedtime bottle in his cot, but from 9 months when he learnt to stand it was game over 🤦♀️ he just stands straight up! So for the past near 2 month I’ve been getting him to sleep on my knee again 🤦♀️ which isn’t ideal, but I really should try and get him back to falling asleep on his own x
@Jen my LO still sits up all the time been doing it for a couple months but the screaming/ crying he has only done when he’s teething
My son is 9 months and went through this last month. He’s been sleeping through the night since 2 months due to sleep training but has had periods of regression. Usually 1-3 nights then he’s back on track because we don’t bottle or help him. We just let him be for 10 min and if he hasn’t figured it out we would put him back down on his back but around 8 months he figured out how to get up and down on his own while waiting. Once he could do it his frustration went away and he’s been okay if he wakes up and able to go back to sleep with little to no noise. It’s hard to hear them cry but crying is frustration and then they eventually figure out what they need. Obviously their needs to need to be met and their space needs to be safe but if you’ve done that it’ll be okay! You got this! Stay with it!