We have been on a night weaning journey for my 20 month old son for over 3 weeks now. He still wakes up and wails for milk every 2.5-4 hours (4 hours on a really excellent night). During our attempts to night wean he has popped three teeth and is now on his second cold. I was assured that every a few days of no milks over night he would "get it" and then start sleeping through the night. Needless to say that didn't happen. He has a bedtime routine (bath, books, nursing, bed). He falls asleep awake and up until two days ago this was without issue. The last couple of nights he has been resistant to not nursing to sleep but I just let him cry and with a few songs he fell asleep on his own. He sleeps on a floor bed. Here's my question: Anyone have any advice for sleep training a toddler of this age? My husband is ready to sleep up until now I had been really REALLY against it. But I am so so so tired. I don't want to listen to him scream (because he will scream, not cry, scream) for hours if we've missed the boat on sleep training. Please help.
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@Mammabare: is his floor bed in another room or in your room?
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@anagram In a separate room.
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@Mammabare: I hope someone who uses a floor bed chimes in! My LO is still in a crib, so I'm not sure how to go about sleep training in a floor bed.
Maybe trying the parent-attended CIO methods, with your husband patting LO on the back or sitting nearby, but not feeding?
But I feel like stuffy noses + teething isn't a good time to sleep train. My LO sleeps *terribly* when she has either of those going on, so both together just means bad nights.
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@anagram thanks yeah it's just we were already head first into night weaning when teeth and colds started showing up. It seemed like we should just push through. But if we actually do sleep train we would wait until at least the cold has subsided. He only has his 2 year molars left to pop out so hopefully we have a few months before those are interfering. We do have a crib and can put it up if it makes sense. Did you sleep train your LO at a later age?
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@Mammabare: I ended up needing to sleep train 3 times, because each time we would sleep train, LO would get a bad daycare illness within days and I feel like the good sleep habits didn't have enough time to "stick" before the illnesses, which would cause her (and us) to revert to the 4-6 wakeups a night, and us doing whatever it took to get her back down (feeding, rocking, cosleeping, whatever).
The last time I sleep trained was when I was out of work for the summer (I'm a teacher) and LO didn't get sick for 2 months afterward and it stuck. Basically. She still has bad nights when teething or sick.
I think you can push through with the night weaning, even when sick or teething, and just offer comfort and tylenol.
For night weaning, were you dropping 1 feed at a time or attempting to drop them all at once?
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Hi all. Jumping in the middle mix. With no real advice as we are looking to night weaning our LO and then transition to a floor bed good luck @mammabare, hang in there.
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@anagram We started off trying to do the Jay Gordon method, i.e. no nursing between 11-6. When that failed to prevent him from waking up still looking to nurse every few hours or so we inched the time back to 11-3 hoping to inch it back out. Now we are going to try one feeding at a time and let my husband be the first responder. If this doesn't work we'll have to buckle down and sleep train after the cold passes.
@munchkin thanks and Im trying lol!
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