Looking for moral support! We are doing CIO with checks. Almost an hour in with this MOTN wake and he's going strong. He's 7 months.
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Well it's not a holiday weekend for me, but I am going to sleep train starting tonight. I can see now that my good sleeper relies on me too much. He used to be able to soothe if he woke himself in the MOTN, but now he screams to be held. Sometimes he needs a bottle, but even after he wants to be held until he really is fast asleep.
We lowered his crib over the weekend. My plan is to put him in his crib when he shows signs it's time for bed. Then CIO with checks.
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@mamabolt: does that mean he's been crying for a hour?
I'm tempted to introduce a lovey for sleep, but that would just be another sleep aid.
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I also don't have a holiday weekend but I'm at least doing nap sleep training. W is 8 months so as of yesterday we're going to 2 naps a day and I'm just putting him down in his crib instead of rocking him to sleep. Yesterday went pretty well but today he woke up way earlier so we'll see how it plays out. I predict a grumpy baby by bedtime.
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Me! We already have bedtime down but it hasn't helped at all with MOTN waking, still wakes up every 90 minutes at 6.5 months. He slept much better as a newborn. So we are working on that. But I'm dreading it so much because hearing him cry every 90 minutes is going to be terrible. But every 90 minutes for 3 months has been terrible too.
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Yep. Last night he went down without crying (very surprising, all the stars must have been aligned) and then was awake from 11:35-12:45ish mostly crying, with some calm times and some screaming (
) mixed in. We were going to do extinction and we lasted 20 minutes and then checked in, and then every 5-10 minutes after that. So sad and guilt-inducing. But he has to learn.... he STTN months 2, 3, 5, and 7, and now it's 9.5 months and I'm done.So, asleep 8p-6a with a solid 70 minutes of crying around midnight. No milk all night though!
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We probably will do something starting Sunday night. This will be my third time getting dd off the soother at night. Everytime she's just getting weaned and sleeping well, something happens and I give it back (vaccines, son split his head open and I just needed dd to sleep...)
She's currently screaming but supposed to be napping. I'm giving myself a breather. I am so so exhausted from the last couple days and now I'm sick. She can figure it out. She's fed and changed and warm. She'll be fine. My mantra.
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We just did night one last night with my 5mo old. Was asleep in 25 min so better then I expected. Fed him at 4:30 and he slept until 7. For comparison the night before he was up at 11:30, 2,3,4,5 so we really had to do something.
@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I would give a lovey. That's a good sleep aid because they can always have it and find it at night. My 3yo still uses hers
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: We did checks and he would calm briefly but he did cry for about an hour and 20 min altogether. But after that he went back down for the rest of the night until we woke him at 7! Good luck tonight!
@erinbaderin: Good luck with nap training! I'm hoping working on the self soothing skills at night carries over to naps as well.
@Miss Flamingo: I feel you! He wakes up 2-3 times a night usually, comfort nurses back to sleep, and then startles awake when I put him back in his crib or within 10 min.
@DesertDreams88: Sounds like we had similar nights! DS has never STTN and so I'm not trying to night wean yet, but I want him to be able to settle himself with some of these MOTN wakings instead of comfort nursing. I've decided whenever he wakes after 2 am I will nurse but he has to learn to self soothe back to sleep.
@Mrs. Champagne: Hugs mama. She is fine and you are doing great.
@gotkimchi: Sounds like a good night overall! Hope it continues tonight!
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@mamabolt: to be fair I accidentally had the sound off on the video monitor
I keep telling myself I would have heard if he was really crying though...
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@gotkimchi: I turned off the monitor sound on purpose, agree, you would hear real crying!
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Night 3 - I put him down early because he seemed tired which was a mistake. He was crying a lot for night 3 so I got him and fed him and re did bedtime routine. Put him back down. He cries for 5 minutes and fell asleep. Did I totally mess it up?
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Night 2 / Day 2!:
Night: Slept 6:30pm-7am, with two wakings... one at 7:30 where we gave him milk (we didn't think he drank enough before bed) and one around 12:30ish that involved 30min of crying with two checks about 10 min between each.
Nap #1: Screamed bloody murder for 10 minutes until DH went in for a check, and then went right down. He woke up after 20 minutes and DH rubbed his back to get him to go back down for another hour
Normal nap length of about 1h15min.Nap #2: Cried for 2-3 min & then went right to sleep for 1h45m, which is long for him.
Tonight is night 3, I'm really hoping the crying won't take as long!
I keep telling myself I would have heard if he was really crying though...
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