Ugh, my almost 1 year old was STTN for a few weeks when I sleep trained her a while back. She then started teething and got sick so we were back at square one. For the past month or two she has been waking up 2-4 times per night in the earlier part of the night (9-11pm) and then again at 4am. I feel like at her age she should be STTN or at least down to only one wake up. I'm getting exhausted though so I think I need to sleep train her. I have a hard time listening to her cry though. Any tips for me? I sleep trained my oldest LO but I don't remember it being so difficult...
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M is a terrible sleeper. He does STTN now and then, but most nights he still wakes. More often than not, I can just not go in there and he goes back to sleep. But, it's still annoying and he does sometimes need rocking. I stopped nursing him in the MOTN though. It seems to have helped some.
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When ds hit 15 months he started sttn without any sleep training.
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Yes, they both did without official sleep training. We let the second one fuss herself back to sleep a few times. It took almost a year to happen consistently, and even now, with the eldest almost 3, and the youngest 13 months, they'll both wake some nights.
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@Dandelion: That's exactly what E wants is to nurse...how did you cut out those night sessions?
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@Bao: I stopped going in and when he is hysterical, I just rock him. It only took 2 nights for the crying to quit happening so much.
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@Dandelion: I'll try that!
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@Bao: we still have wake ups, but they're easier to manage. He quit crying once he realized there's nothing to cry for.
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We didn't do any sleep training. DD gradually has dropped MoTN feedings and stretch them out on her own. At 10.5 months she started sleeping 11-12 hour stretches. They were intermittent at first, but now at 12.5 months have been consistent for the past few weeks. Waiting it out was the right decision for us, but it was definitely rough at times!
ETA - my rule is that if she's still laying down, I don't go in unless she starts really crying. She usually goes back to sleep within 2 minutes if she's still lying down. It she was sitting/standing I go in and nurse her. There's no way around it - it was the quickest and easiest way to get her back to sleep!
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Yes but not reliably. I'd say he STTN about 90% of the time. It's easily compromised with missed naps or traveling.
We rock to sleep still at 1 year. My plan is to continue rocking to sleep until he's old enough to transition out of it on his own. We're really happy with bedtime and I think the cuddles help him fall asleep more peacefully.
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No sleep training and sttn, but we cosleep and I'm ready to have her out of the bed!
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Our LO did without training. We always let him fuss if he wasn't crying, but if he was actually crying and upset we always went in. He sttn early and until about 18 months - since then we've been dealing with some wake ups.
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no, we had to ST at 12.5 months. we did CIO with checks. it was WAY harder to hear her cry as a toddler and also in the MOTN, but it worked in 3 nights. we sent DH in because i was also night weaning.
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No. We "waited it out" for both girls and DD1 didn't start STTN until 22 months and DD2 is 15 months and still doesn't STTN.
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Miraculously just before his birthday he started STTN. However that only lasted two months and he's sttn since, but never consistently.
@Rainbow Sprinkles: you give me hope... my guy is 21 months. We're waiting it out and hope it happens soon!!
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S and H have both STTN since about 6 months but I also cosleep
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Yes, J never needed sleep training. He would sometimes fuss for 5-10 minutes, but then he'd settle down and sleep. He never escalated.
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We tried sleep training LO1 3 different times the first year and then gave up. He started STTN on his own right after his first birthday. With LO2, we never sleep trained. She started STTN on her own just before 15 months.
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We had to sleep train. But it worked!! He STTN 95% of the time since about 7 months, unless he's been sick or jet lagged.
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She started right around her birthday, on her own!
To drop night sessions I substituted the binky and pushed the feed back by 20-30 min each night until she didn't need it.
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We did light sleep training right around a year and it luckily only took 2 days before it worked. I actually think that LO had an ah-ha moment about sleep because then he started asking to be put in bed while we would rock after story time and we haven't had any issues since barring illness or teething (he's now almost 21 months).
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Kind of? But he still doesn't really STTN. Once we weaned him from night nursing, he slept much better at night. However, once he's sick or teething, everything goes out the door and we're back to multiple wake ups at night. We're lucky if he has a good week and STTN, but those are super duper rare.
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We lucked out - M started STTN at around 3 months with no issues. No real
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Both of my boys STTN on their own at 4 and 5 months. However, both stopped and started waking up crying at 7 and 9 months. I don't like letting them cry so we became co sleepers.
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Nope! We have sleep trained (using different methods and of varying intensities, haha) several times. Every time her sleep improves temporarily but as soon as her next big illnesses happens, we start back at square one.
Actually, more recently it's been my pregnancy illness that resulted in terrible sleep. My husband was in charge of all night wake ups from the end of December to just last week (because I was way too ill), and he really enables the worst sleep habits. She's 19 months old and he was doing crazy things like giving her nighttime bottles (which I phased out long ago), co sleeping most nights in her room, diaper changes in the middle of the night with turning on lights and everything---just generally doing everything "wrong" god bless him. She was starting to go back to waking up 3-4 and sometimes more times a night.
Buutttt....I've been feeling better these past two weeks and I cracked down on all of that. No more night time milk, no more turning on lights and NO diaper changes (she doesn't poop, it's just pee), and she's back down to one quick wakeup a night (generally I just go in and lay her back down and leave the room).
This morning, I heard her cry out and in my half asleep fog heard by husband get up. Assuming he was just going to lay her back down and leave, I tried to fall back asleep. But when I noticed him being gone a long time, I went out to find him MAKING A BOTTLE in the middle of the night. AUGH! I had to take over, send him back to bed--and all I had to do was go to her room, lay her back down with her blankie, and she fell right asleep.
Yeah, so long story short---definitely no natural sleeping through the night in our house. But I have an enabler husband who really rewards bad sleep.
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@Bao: I wish I had tips for you, but I need them, too! C never STTN, but was down to 1 wakeup for a few months. Now, she's back to 2-3 wakeups and it's killing me. What's up w/ these March babies??
ETA: I can't listen to her cry either. And, I can't let her cry it out because she'll wake up DH or W. I feel like I can't win.
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This thread gives me some hope! Lo is 11 months and sometimes does sttn but it's really hit or miss. I haven't wanted to sleep train bc she does sometimes sleep well so I feel like if she's up it's because she needs something, whether just comfort or milk, but I'm glad to know that she might grow out of it herself.
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He started sleeping through the night on his own shortly after his first birthday. It was a freaking miracle. I have no tips because I have no idea what the hell happened since we didn't do anything differently.
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