https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:52:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2533021 Sun, 24 Apr 2016 10:08:35 +0000 shellio 2533021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought the book was interesting but long on theory and short on actual useful guidance/instruction. Agree with above, tackle one thing at a time. When I was looking to sleep train, the things I was reading said best time with an infant is 5-7 months. However all of my kids have been variable, even when we've had consistent routines and responses to them. (In other words, sometimes they cry when you put them down for bed even though they did great for the past 2 weeks. Sometimes they nap for 3 hours and sometimes they just fuss and won't sleep at all.) Don't beat yourself up about it, just try to follow their lead and give them what they need. With my first I always felt like I was messing him up for life if I didn't make him fall asleep on his own every single time, ensure that he always napped in bed at x time, etc. Now I'm on the 3rd and just trying to survive, ha ha, and all of my kids are still perfectly lovely and well adjusted so far. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532988 Sun, 24 Apr 2016 07:26:32 +0000 MenagerieMama 2532988@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used the book for its development appropriate sleep info, but didn't sleep train per say. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532973 Sun, 24 Apr 2016 06:04:43 +0000 catomd00 2532973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think your expectations are way too high for a 4 month old. Pick one thing to tackle at a time, but remember she's 4 months and sleep changes so much over the first year or two as they learn and grow. Adjusting my expectations and going with the flow and doing what worked in the moment was far more successful for us personally than trying any sort of "training". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532971 Sun, 24 Apr 2016 05:27:50 +0000 gracecat 2532971@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used the Healthy Habits book for night time sleep and Baby Whisperer EASY method for day times. fWIW my priority was to get them to fall asleep at night in their own crib with a dream feed. I never could get them to nap in their crib during the day though, I didn't have the heart or energy to do nap training so my Oldest never napped in a crib until she turned 1. Only the Ergo..... And so far my second is on the same path. Two bottles for dream feeding at night and naps almost exclusively in the Ergo. But I put up with it because her night sleep training went so well and as long as she slept at night I wouldn't ask for more. But I've read that you need to tackle day sleep first before you do nights... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532845 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:27:00 +0000 Keybee 2532845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you! I think I do need to break it down, I am feeling overwhelmed </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532803 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:21:24 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2532803@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree, that seems like a lot to tackle at once when your baby is so little! I think also some<br /> Suggest to do whatever you can to get those naps in so baby doesn't get overtired. Focus on bedtime first. Too many changes at once are stressful for you and baby! Good luck. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532799 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:11:46 +0000 Dahlia 2532799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I HATED that book! Not because of the information so much, but because I found it horribly written and so much longer than it needed to be. </p> <p>But to really answer your question, like @Foodnerd81, we took it in stages. At 4 months we taught her to go to sleep on her own in the crib. At 5-6 months I started waiting longer and longer before I nursed her at night. At 6.5 months we let her cry some MOTN to get her down to 1-2 wakings. At 9 months she's started sleeping completely through, but we didn't do anything. She just figured it out.<br /> We need to tackle naps next. </p> <p>In your case I might work on an earlier bedtime and going to sleep on her own first and see what happens. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532751 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:20:59 +0000 Alba4 2532751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We loved that book and it helped our son's sleep. I thought it gave good sleep schedule guidelines, although we didn't follow it religiously. We sleep trained starting around 4-5 months and it worked for us. He never cried for more than 7 minutes before falling asleep. He was in general an easy baby though. It does take time, and we had good and bad days. Hang in there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532720 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:02:24 +0000 Foodnerd81 2532720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also my younger is going through her 4 month sleep regression right now and I'm just powering through because I just can't do sleep training with a toddler in a small condo. She seems to be coming out the other side and sleeping a little better on her own? But it could just be a fluke too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532719 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:00:58 +0000 Foodnerd81 2532719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Are you trying to train her to fall asleep on her own and sleep through, no wake ups, at once?</p> <p>I read the book but didn't follow everything to a T. For me the bigger issue with my older one was getting her to fall asleep in her own, especially at night. It had been taking an hour of nursing, bouncing, crying, trying to put down then waking up... So for us it worked best to work on things in stages. That meant CIO at bed time, then I still nursed for MOTN wake ups and nursed to sleep at naps. Then I stopped nursing in MOTN before a certain time (midnight). Then worked on falling asleep on her own for naps. </p> <p>However sleep training for her MOTN wake ups just never worked for us. She got to the point where she mostly only woke up once to nurse and went back to sleep quickly, vs crying for ages and not resettling, so I just nursed until she dropped it on her own at 9 months. </p> <p>So all that to say doing it in stages worked better for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-experience-with-the-healthy-sleep-habbits-book#post-2532696 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:54:04 +0000 Keybee 2532696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD started the 4 month sleep regression some thought it was time for sleep training.<br /> Our previous normal was she would sleep in our bed or in her co-sleeper at night. She went to bed at the same time we did, 10-12, woke up with us too. She would nap in my arms or in her car seat or stroller, once in awhile in her co-sleeper. She was sleeping through the night starting around 2 months but stopped at 4. </p> <p>This week we started sleep training. I want her to sleep through the night, eventually in her own room but I don't care about that so much right now. I really need her to nap in her room though so I can get things done while she's asleep and spend quality time with her awake. I would also like her to go to bed before we do so DH and I can have some quality time. </p> <p>We started sleep training on Tuesday, things went better then expected. Wednesday was OK and the last two days were awful. She wakes up at night for over an hour, she won't nap... I'm way more exhausted then I was before we started. </p> <p>Am I doing it wrong? Is this just not for us? Or is this how it's suppost to go? </p>