https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 02 May 2026 06:55:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134621 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 16:01:11 +0000 Penny Lane 1134621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>any day dwellers have any hints for me? :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134106 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 08:07:34 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1134106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Penny Lane: it never took her that long but sometimes a whike </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134103 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 08:06:49 +0000 Penny Lane 1134103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>okay!! 2am and I think he's finally asleep. wish me luck for the rest of the night! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134094 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:53:13 +0000 Penny Lane 1134094@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaBehr: I thought it was teething too, he's got his second upper left tooth trying to cut through, but we gave him pamol (like Tylenol) before bed tonight and it hasn't seemed to have made a difference... maybe it's a good idea to take him for a check up just in case. thanks!! :)</p> <p>@mrbee: ah, awesome! reading that right now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134089 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:46:28 +0000 MamaBehr 1134089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Penny Lane: Could it be teeth? He's about the right age for the first year molars to be coming in? It makes me wonder if something is bothering him (ear infection, tooth, etc) to make him scream like this, rather than thinking he needs to sleep train. </p> <p>Sitting in the room very rarely worked for us. We had to leave the room and just not come back when we started to do CIO. We did CIO with DS at 5.5 months old and with DD at 17 months old, it is hard and you have to stick to your guns if you are actually going to do it. But, before you do anything too drastic I really have to wonder if something else is happening.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134088 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:45:03 +0000 mrbee 1134088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Penny Lane: Was just doing some Google research on loveys, and stumbled across this old blog post from Bee that might be helpful!</p> <p><a href="http://www.hellobee.com/2012/05/21/introducing-a-lovey/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobee.com/2012/05/21/introducing-a-lovey/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134087 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:43:42 +0000 Penny Lane 1134087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I think this will be the next thing I try. he doesn't have a lovey, but he's always been able to get back to sleep without one til now! tomorrow, I think I'll look through his blankets and pick a cute one! thanks for weighing in! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134085 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:41:17 +0000 Penny Lane 1134085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: he doesn't always wake up screaming, but we definitely don't go in until he starts. we tried the bottle thing, he threw it away and screaming as soon as we left the room :-/</p> <p>@T.H.O.U.: how long did she normally take to fall back asleep?</p> <p>I must say, it's comforting I'm not the only one :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134084 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:41:11 +0000 mrbee 1134084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does he have a lovey, or another way to self-soothe when he wakes up? I'd maybe add those and then reassess! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134078 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:35:32 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1134078@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All I can say is I feel you. Around that time we implemented a rule that once she was down we didn't pick her up out of the crib. We would stay in her room and rub her back as long as she laid down. Eventually she fell asleep and would stay asleep enough we could leave. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134068 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:14:19 +0000 loveisstrange 1134068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My g nest advice is to wait it out. We did CIO but C went through a couple weeks like this where she would stay awake for 2-3 hours in the middle of the night. </p> <p>Does he wake up screaming? If so, I'd say try giving him a bottle with water in it and leaving the room. This is what we did for C and she would just lay awake babbling until she fell back asleep.</p> <p>If he wakes up without crying, I'd just leave him unless he starts screaming, </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/calling-all-sleep-trainers#post-1134064 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:06:07 +0000 Penny Lane 1134064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I need some serious help. if this were your child, what would you do?</p> <p>some background!</p> <p>LO is 14 months old. we have never sleep trained him before. he used to STTN from 8:30pm to anywhere from 6am to 8:30am, with maybe the occasional few second long "I can't find my paci" wake ups. he has a bottle before bed and then he falls asleep on my chest in the rocking chair before I place him in bed.</p> <p>the last 3 nights he has been waking back up at 11:00pm on the dot, and nothing works to get him back to sleep. it took til 12:30 last night. </p> <p>I can hold him til he is deep asleep, but the second I put him down... he's awake, standing, and screaming before I've even had time to step away from the crib. if I leave the room after this, the screaming will continue to escalate until I go in and pick him back up. seriously, I left him for half an hour the other night, and it just got louder. and then took me another 45 minutes to calm him. </p> <p>tonight I tried picking him up and calming him, putting him back down and sitting in the floor by his crib as he dozed off. it seemed like the perfect plan! his eyes were drooping and he was staying lying down! however... he proceeded to stay awake with drooping eyes and plentiful yawns for AN HOUR AND A HALF. as long as I stayed still on the floor, he would do everything he could to stay awake. if I dared move (even if he had been perfectly still with eyes mostly shut for 10 min) he would scream. </p> <p>it's currently 1am and DH is now in there trying his luck. I can hear LO babbling, so I'm thinking it's not going well. </p> <p>I'm not sure what to do from here. do I assume this is a phase, and wait it out? I know he's not teething right now, because meds don't make a difference. or do I need to try some sort of sleep training? if so, any hints as to what?? </p> <p>I'm convinced CIO won't work. he's got crazy stamina, a serious set of lungs, and I have no backbone. we also have a friend living with us, and I would prefer not to subject him to hours upon hours of screaming every night. </p> <p>I can't see sitting in the room as he falls asleep working either, based on tonight's experience. </p> <p>are there other sleep training methods I'm missing? is my addled brain missing something super obvious? if you were me, what would you do now?</p> <p>ETA: holy novel, batman! if you make it to here without falling asleep, I feel like you deserve some sort of medal!! </p>