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We sleep trained also and my 6mo old goes to sleep by herself and easily but also wakes 2-3 times per night. I don't know what to do about it either. I've tried feeding her less to drop a feedings but she just wakes earlier. I think we might have to make a firm no feeding before these times and just stick to it

@Leah: I know my lo has definately been able to go longer than she has been, I think she just likes a cuddle and a boob and is pretty used to it at this point. I was trying to get out of it with minimal amount of upset but the gentle methods haven't been working. I might give her 10-15 minutes tonight and see if she'll go back to sleep when she wakes the first time. I would be fine with 1 feeding but all night sucks! She usually goes to be around 645 or so but she doesn't wake at consistent times so I thought she was actually hungry but now I'm not sure

I do dream feeds, too. M goes to sleep at 8, so I wait until 11, dream feed him, and then we all sleep until at least 3. Then he gets another, goes back to sleep and then gets up for the day around 6:30. If I skip that dream feed, it's a rough night.

@Mrs Green Grass: I would second the dream feed! At that age our LO wasn't even close to sleeping through the night. She would be asleep by 6:30 and have a good 4- 5 ish hour stretch of sleep but once the long stretch was done she would wake every 2-3 hours after. So with her early bedtime I never got a good stretch. Once I started the dream feed, however, that would kind of reset her feeding schedule and give me that 4-5 hour stretch right when I was going to bed. With our bedtime my ideal dream feed time was 10-10:30. Also was wondering how your LOs naps are? I always found a day of poor naps meant a night of poor sleep. Also what is bedtime? For us early bedtime also meant better sleep. Over all baby sleep is tough! No other words of encouragement but hang in there mommy! You WILL sleep again!

@autumn865: and I would do the 11:30 feed, Dh would do 3:30 or 5:30 or whatever it was, so each I is got to sleep (if you use bottles).

@gotkimchi: when is bedtime? I think it makes sense if it's been less than 3 hours...

@gotkimchi: I'll reply on your post

@Leah: We did CIO to drop the first feed and what actually happened was he ended up eating more on his own. I pump and he's given bottles during the day and he went from 12oz before CIO to 17oz when we dropped the feed. I was worried he wasn't eating enough but part of why he wasn't eating enough was he habitually was eating at night and knew he was going to get fed then.

@Leah: just wanted to commiserate. Lo woke up at 10 last night when the night before she made it until 11:45. Gave her 10 minutes but she didn't go back to sleep idk I think we might have to do a little cio too

@Leah: glad to hear. Let me know if you would like me to clarify anything about what we did. I asked his doctor 100 questions before starting bc I was so nervous!