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Amazing! I think this is what I’m going to try! Did you pick her up at all or just comfort in the cot? I tried the pick up put down method, but did nothing other than kill my back! Just needing more than 1 hour stretches at night x
No but i need to try something like this. X
@Chloe it would depend, my goal was to not pick her up but if she was still upset then I would pick her up just to settle her a little. I think if you don’t put too much pressure on yourself about what you should/shouldn’t be doing it will work better for you both. I felt if I left my daughter when she was really upset it made me feel awful, but at the same time there was the odd occasion where I had tried everything and actually leaving her for a couple of minutes to cry she actually went to sleep. Xx
First night I tried I was so determined as I was exhausted and so was she. I really stuck to it so as soon as I’d gone in and she was okay I would leave again and stick to the time. The first night I did it she slept almost all night. I think this method worked well as well because she would still cry if she was hungry but it helped her from not waking up all the time for no reason x
Yes and it's saved us!!
@Merryn what method did you do ? X
Fully recommend nights with Nat on instagram. We're currently working with her with our 14 month old. She had only slept through twice before we started this week and were on our 4th full night with no dummy and no night bottle. Still working out the initial self settling but the improvement is 100% already. We were usually up at least 4 times a night and nearly always for an hour or so each time.
@Chloe we went with a sleep consultant called Beth Bayliss who was amazing. Basically we made sure we were following wake windows for naps in the day and making sure she was getting 3.5 hours of day sleep (now reduced to 3). Then we put in a bedtime routine which we keep the same every night and we used controlled crying reducing physical presence (that bit I can't really remember exactly how we did it)
I did with my first, very gentle and gradual Ferber method at about 8 months. Although never left her if she was extremely upset, only if she was more whinging sort of cry. Started by putting her to bed then leaving the room for about 30 seconds, then go in settle down and leave the room for 40 seconds and so on so you leave bigger intervals in between each time. Worked amazing and didn’t actually involve much crying as my daughter soon realised I would go back when she needed me x