Not sleeping well

We broke down and started cosleeping. I haven’t slept so well in months. Ik you’re not supposed to do it but our babies are big now so I’m not as worried as I was when she was a newborn.

We started experiencing this around nine months as well and we went insane! My boyfriend and I were teaming it and ended up having a really hard time. This is when we decided to start sleep training. I’m a firm believer there’s no right way to sleep, train your baby because every baby is so different. But if it’s any consolation, you’re not alone and maybe it might be time to start thinking about sleep training. I will say I am no sleep expert, but my baby never slept day or night. Once we did do sleep training he’s been sleeping through the night for about 10 1/2 to 12 hours, and put himself down for naps, etc.. I am also a stay at home mom so I was able to start the sleep training process during the day during his naps !

Sounds like a sleep regression? I would ask her doctor about trying to cut out night feeds tho, they say babies don’t really need them anymore at 9m. But it varies. My son was done w them at 9m but my twins both still got them til 1yr & at that point I just had to let them cry it out at night (which only lasted 2 nights, after that they sleep fine)

@Meghan since my bf is the one who has the baby at night he doesn’t feel comfortable co sleeping because when he turns in his sleep his arms fly everywhere. They’ve bonked me a couple times awake. Because of this I wouldn’t feel comfortable with him co sleeping with her either seeing that when he has let his arms fall on me it didn’t wake him up. It’s a no go for us ☹️

@Aria which method of sleep training did you use? At this point I think we are willing to try anything

@Hannah we felt like she had been over her sleep regression (it started at 7 1/2months and lasted about 6 weeks) and then she went right into teething so she wasn’t sleeping well either. Just two weeks ago she was only waking up to feed 1 time and we felt so relieved thinking it was all over until this started. My bf said she woke up at 11pm last night and didn’t go back to sleep til 2 am.

For his days we followed the taking cara babies schedule for naps and eating. For the night, we completely cut out his feeds cold turkey. And then we did a mix of the chair method with the Ferber. We noticed that the Ferber helped us a lot more. We did a mix of stuff but specifically those two and changing his day schedule, and cutting out his feeds at night really helped a lot. Also, because I have a hard time listening to him cry.

Yeah that sounds similar to my twins. It’s get better & then worse & back and forth, so tiring. I would say try the Ferber method first, then if that doesn’t work maybe cry it out if that’s something you’re comfortable with? Me personally Ferber didn’t work for me solely because my twins cried even harder when they saw me because I wasn’t picking them up. Like no amount of consoling while in the crib helped them. But once they turned 1 and were off formula I wasn’t going to be giving them whole-milk bottles in the middle of the night so I felt like I had no other choice but to let them cry. It never lasted more than an hour and I kept an eye on them on the monitor. She’ll eventually learn to keep herself busy until she falls back asleep. At this point now my babies can be awake in their cribs in the middle of the night and play with their hands or crib rails until they fall back asleep. Good luck mama!💕

Not sure but I notice when I give my baby a bigger dinner he sleeps better, if he doesn’t feel like eating too much I give him avocado since it’s a bit more fatty

Try a binkie and white noise or a yellow or light blue night light in her room