https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 15 May 2026 02:24:32 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-wwyd#post-2661057 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 22:23:06 +0000 DesertDreams88 2661057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How is he doing with solid food and when does he get solids? I feel like my baby didn't start sleeping very well until he had 3 predictable meals a day.... especially dinner.</p> <p>Also, I understand the rationale of partial night weaning, but I feel like sleep training isn't very successful without complete night weaning... even if in your head you say "I'll only feed when..." ( after 20 minutes of crying, after midnight, etc) the baby doesn't really understand the difference it seems, and they just know that sometimes when they cry they get comforted, and sometimes they get ignored, and sometimes they get milk, so it's all very confusing and doesn't work well. At least, that's what it seems like to me. We've sleep trained three times, each with varying degrees of success. It is so hard!</p> <p>Also, do you nurse or bottle feed? I found that my baby did better at night when I started to bottle feed him at night. I thought he drank more quickly, and stayed sleep sleeping longer. Based on breast fullness and his eating / sleeping habits, I inferred that I had low supply at night starting around month 7 so he wasn't really filling up during his night feeds, which was why he was waking up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-wwyd#post-2661047 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:06:06 +0000 wrkbrk 2661047@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You're not a terrible mama. Some kids sleep and some don't and it doesn't have as much to do with us as we think!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-wwyd#post-2661035 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 19:05:06 +0000 brownepiano 2661035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If Ferber isn't working but you want to continue in that direction, you could try extinction- cio. </p> <p>DS was doing something similar at 7-8 months but I was pretty sure he wasn't really hungry at night. I decided that I was not going to feed him again till 12 after putting him to bed. So when he woke up at 9 pm after going to bed at 7 pm we let him cry himself back to sleep. After that he quickly went to only waking once every night! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-wwyd#post-2661031 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 18:48:01 +0000 LemonJack 2661031@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so sorry, that's so hard. Are you able to get enough rest when you're cosleeping? My DD was very similar to this, and although we tried a few times to sleep train her, it just didn't work. As an infant she just really wanted to be cuddled up next to me, so we coslept. There were times I wasn't thrilled with it, but overall we all slept better than we would have with her constant wake ups, so we did what we had to to survive. Eventually she outgrew it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-wwyd#post-2661027 Sat, 03 Dec 2016 18:33:13 +0000 Miss Flamingo 2661027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hello! I have a lovely little boy who is 7 months old and is a terror at night. He slept alright as a newborn but wakes up every 90 minutes since July. At the beginning of October I tried Ferber and it didn't really help much. He didn't cry very much at all but he still woke up every 90 minutes. After about a solid week of trying I went back to consleeping because it was the only way to get rest. Two days before Thanksgiving I decided to try again because he started to stay up for hours in the middle of the night, this time the crying has been a lot worse. Now we have been doing this for 10 days and he falls asleep at bedtime with maybe 10-20 minutes of crying, about 3 hours after his last nap. This is usually 6 0r 6:30. He wakes up at 10 every night and then every two hours after that until 3 when it is every hour. Twice during this time he has cried on and off 4 hours from 10:30-2:30. I feed him if it has been 3 hours (this is what my pediatrician said to do) and it just doesn't seem to be helping. I feel so hopeless and like such a terrible mom.</p> <p> I don't know if I should keep trying with the sleep training, but it just seems cruel at this point. Or if I should just stop, but going back to every 90 minutes seems like a terrible option too. I have another kid at home and I don't feel like I can be a good mom to her when I am so exhausted. She was a terrible sleeper too and didn't sleep well until I night weaned at 14 months.</p> <p>Any guidance or at least some hope?! </p>