https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:52:44 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-your-post-9-mo-regression-sleep-training#post-2001891 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 01:03:05 +0000 SproutBee 2001891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly, my LOs naps have always been crap. He generally naps once a day now (at 16 mo), and even then it's usually only 2 sleep cycles (total of a whopping 75-90min). I blame major separation anxiety since birth as he seems to have no problem taking 2 hr naps in the toddler room at daycare. :-P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-your-post-9-mo-regression-sleep-training#post-2001572 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:41:43 +0000 fussygal 2001572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SproutBee: Thanks for replying! :) Luckily she goes back down easily - with nursing that is. Did you LOs naps get bad, too? Ours are back to being four short ones instead of two longer ones. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-your-post-9-mo-regression-sleep-training#post-2001029 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:49:19 +0000 SproutBee 2001029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 9 mo was our worst night sleep... Up 3-5x, and nothing was working well to get him back down. He'd often be awake for 1-2hrs, unable to fall back asleep. We did CIO for wake ups out of exhaustion - we were literally too tired one night to get out of bed one.more.time. What do you know, after a couple nights it worked. Before we knew it, he was sleeping through the night and has been ever since. I say don't prolong sleep training unless your baby is really sick... there's always new teeth and new milestones coming... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-your-post-9-mo-regression-sleep-training#post-2000930 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:27:35 +0000 fussygal 2000930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you sleep trained after 9 months (with a sleep regression or not), how did it go? What did you do? I've read that the ideal sleep training window is 5-8 months and now I totally understand why and wish I wouldn't have dragged my feet! I know it's not impossible, but at this point I feel really defeated and like we'll be waking up 3-4 times a night forever (ok, not literally forever, but help!).</p> <p>I've posted about some of our sleep issues before, but long story (kind of) short: She's always been a crap sleeper and at 9 months we still have 3-4 wakings per night. I was anti-CIO until DD was about 7 months when we attempted it for a few days and it seemed to work in the short-term (a few nights of longer than normal stretches), but she soon learned how to sit-up and crawl in her crib and was waking up a ton. She's still up 4 times a night and is usually fed for three of them (bad habit, I know!!) because it's the easiest way to get her back to sleep and I'm usually on my own for night wakeups past midnight. I'm trying to wean her off the first wake-up before we tried CIO again.</p> <p>Well, now that she's close to weaning off that feeding she's sprouted her first two teeth so sleep training is out the window for now. I know that there will always be something going on and that we can't delay it forever, but she'll be teething or learning to stand in her crib for the next few months so I worry that we've totally missed the window to successfully ST. Anyway, I'd love to know how you ST after the flurry of regressions, teething, motor milestones, etc. </p>