https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:09:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1959156 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:01:23 +0000 fussygal 1959156@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Champagne: lol! I guess he wasn't going down without showing his displeasure! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1959084 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:09:26 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 1959084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@fussygal: good luck! Fwiw, my mom did the water in a bottle thing with my brother when he was one. He whipped it across the room and never woke up again in the night, lol! Hope it works for you too :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1959070 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:54:38 +0000 fussygal 1959070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ScarletBegonia: N was pretty hysterical at times and cried for about 1.5 hours (off and on though). It was so awful. Poor DH actually sat in there with her though - I'm so thankful for him!</p> <p>@blackbird: Fingers crossed that we have the same luck!</p> <p>@teawithpaloma: How did I miss your thread?! Glad to know I'm not alone, although sorry you're in the same boat :/ But your story is encouraging! My DH does the first wake up (10:00) and she usually goes down really easy that time. He has to wake up super early for work so I usually take any wake ups after that on the weekdays...it's getting rough. I may try giving her water in a bottle to see how that goes. </p> <p>@LovelyPlum: oh man, sorry you're in the club, too. Although it does make me feel like we're more normal than I thought! :) We're still slowly introducing solids too (she's only mildly interested!) so I feel you on wanting to make sure the calories are still getting in there! I'm trying the No Cry Sleep Solution night weaning tactics and N is basically laughing in my face lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1959011 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:03:47 +0000 LovelyPlum 1959011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@teawithpaloma: thank for the tip! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1959010 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:02:46 +0000 LovelyPlum 1959010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@fussygal: sending you hugs. G is still waking 3 times to eat, but at this point, I'm not ready to try CIO. I'm nervous to night wean because we're still going slow with solids, and I know that she probably needs the milk. Also, we only have a one bedroom, so we often end up cosleeping. To this point, it's worked for us, but who knows how long that will last. I totally, totally get why you'd want to, though. This lack of sleep thing completely sucks. </p> <p>Good luck to you and N! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1958895 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:39:23 +0000 teawithpaloma 1958895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were in this exact situation: <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/eight-month-old-nursing-2-3-times-a-night-feedback-on-next-steps" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/eight-month-old-nursing-2-3-times-a-night-feedback-on-next-steps</a></p> <p>We started having my husband go in and do comforting after each wake up. He goes in and picks her up and cuddles with her until she finds her thumb and puts her back in the crib after 2-3 minutes. The first night there were 5 wake-ups, next 3, and last night 2. After 4am I feed her if she's up and she also goes back down. </p> <p>All this to say - I went from feeding her 3-4 times a night to just 1x and she's doing great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1958891 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:37:36 +0000 blackbird 1958891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sleep trained at 6 months and E dropped Her night feeds and became a great sleeper. She was down to 1-2 feeds a night and sometimes skipping them so we started lessening the amount and really giving her a lot before bed </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1958888 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:32:21 +0000 ScarletBegonia 1958888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@fussygal: I started by nursing him to sleep, as I said, but within maybe a week of starting he wasn't falling asleep nursing anymore, so he would go into the crib awake. When that started, there was definitely some fussing, depending on how tired he was. After about 4/5 nights of that, he would start going in awake, rolling over a few times, and babbling himself to sleep. </p> <p>The crying the first night was on and off for a long time, but we have a video monitor so i could see that even when he wasn't crying, he was still awake. The crying the second night was solid for 15 minutes, and pretty hard at some points :bummed: - that was when my resolve was probably the closest to breaking, but I would say it never got hysterical, and he passed out pretty quick at the 15 minute mark. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1958853 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:58:19 +0000 fussygal 1958853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ScarletBegonia: Thanks! :) I never thought I'd do CIO, but as time has gone on it's something I became open to and once I saw the results after the first night (4 hour stretches which were basically unheard of for DD!) of Sleep Sense (CIO but staying in the room) I was amazed. I truly never thought she'd put herself to sleep but she did a few times on the first and second night! </p> <p>The first few nights did your DS go in the crib awake without a fight? DD absolutely hates going in her crib awake and I'm dreading it! Maybe it get's better after the first night? Also did he cry the entire time, or was it off and on? DD was off and on and she'd get SO CLOSE then jolt herself awake - super frustrating!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1958796 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:11:00 +0000 ScarletBegonia 1958796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sorry you're dealing with so many wakeups - you must be going crazy :sad: </p> <p>I think sleep training is SO personal - you should obviously only do what you and your husband are comfortable with. So, I'll share my story of what worked with A (who I believe is only a few days older or younger than your daughter?) but with the caveat that we are and have been open to CIO since he was about 4 months. </p> <p>He had a pretty brutal 4 month regression coupled with getting 4 teeth, his first cold, and a trip to Canada that lead to some TERRIBLE jetlag. Basically at 5+ months sleep was a shit show. We unswaddled and started CIO with checks for nighttime only, wherein I would nurse him to sleep, put him down, and he would wake up like clockwork 45 minutes in - we would go in and pat him, shush him for about 2 minutes, and then leave. We quickly realised that this was making him super angry, so we had 2 very rough nights of letting him cry and not doing checks. The first night he cried about 40 minutes all up, with breaks, and the second night he cried solidly for about 15 minutes. The third night, he fussed a bit and then fell asleep. As soon as he could fall asleep on his own, he started sleeping through from 7pm to usually 3am, up for a quick feed, then back to sleep. From 6 months on, 3am turned into 4, then 5, and now he fairly reliably sleeps til 6am and is up for the day. Naps also started to lengthen around 6 or 6.5 months, and again once he could put himself to sleep it all just clicked. Its been awesome and from my point of view, definitely worth the first few difficult days and the odd day or night we now have where he might cry - we are consistent and don't attend to him unless we know something is wrong (and its easy to tell now if something is wrong, his cries are very distinctive in terms of just being fussy vs. being in pain or distressed/poopy). </p> <p>Anyway - wall me if you have any other questions - but again I want to be clear I know this method is not for everyone, and one of my friends IRL has called my husband and I heartless, which really hurt. Its a totally fraught subject and I wish you guys the best in figuring out what will and won't work for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-weaning-and-sleep-training#post-1958776 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:55:38 +0000 fussygal 1958776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right now DD wakes 4-5 times a night (minimum) and she's almost 8 months. I know it's not unheard of, but I feel like it's pretty crazy and I haven't slept more than 4 straight hours since she was born. My patience is wearing thin and DH and I are constantly bickering about her sleep. </p> <p>She slept in our bed most of the night until 6 weeks ago and while it was great in some respects, it just wasn't a good long-term solution for us. Now she's in her room all night, but as I mentioned before - so. many. wakings. The past 10 days we've been doing some light sleep training using the Sleep Sense program, and the first few nights it was pretty great - she slept 4 hour stretches all night and was putting herself back to sleep multiple times a night. However, since things were going so well, we became a little lazy and her sleep has been pretty hit or miss the past week. I feel terrible because our inconsistency is sending her major mixed signals which isn't fair to her. We obviously need to just commit to doing it right, but I'm so nervous. Mostly about feeding. </p> <p>In general, she eats very often, even during the day. At night I try to only feed her every three hours (she's often up more frequently) which I feel is still a lot for a baby her age. Ideally we'd be down to one or even two per night. I'm scared that while sleep training I'll miss a hunger cue and she'll be super hungry and crying and pissed. She also relies heavily on nursing to sleep which we're also trying to work on but in the middle of the night it's hard to resist letting her pass out while eating so I can just get back to bed. Again, I just need to get over it and start putting her down awake. I'm not 100% sure what I'm asking for here, but some encouraging words for sleep training and to hear your experiences on night weaning and cutting out nursing to sleep would be great. </p>