I know I am so annoying with all of my sleep training questions but I am so grateful for all of the advice and support you all have given me lately. Thank you:)

So I'm sorry to post my zillionth thread about it, but I don't know how to proceed....

H runs a low grade fever pretty regularly, usually in the low 99s. I have brought her to the ped 2x (including last week) to check for an ear infection (she also grabs at her ears and whines when tired), and she is 100% healthy. She doesnt have teeth yet, but her gums are swollen, so we chalked it up to teething...I just give her tylenol and motrin alternately whenever she gets in the 99s, and I've been giving it to her nightly at bedtime so that when we're doing CIO/extinction, I know she doesnt have pain.

Tonight at bedtime, right after bath, her temp was 99.7. I know that's no big deal, and she acted fine all day so it's definitely teething related (and possibly elevated by the bath) but it still mildly alarmed me bc she's usually more like 99.2ish. I gave her Tylenol at 7pm.

What do I do for wakeups. I cant really let her CIO too long when her gums could be hurting. If it's after 11, when I can give her more tylenol, do I go in and take temp/do tylenol? I take it rectally so that would mean a whole production of taking her out of the crib, changing diaper, temp, etc.

Previously when she's had night wakeups, we just let her CIO and she never cries more than a few mins. But I just want to be prepared for how to handle this if she wakes up tonight and needing to monitor her fever and also not screw up sleep training after I have put blood, sweat, and tears (both of us!!!) into getting her sleep trained.

I'm so high-strung about sleep training as it is. It totally stresses me the F out, and her little fever just kicked it up a notch!

I am so tired of all of this anxiety!!!!

Tonight is night 8 and she still took about 10 mins of on/off crying. It just killlllllls me. This whole thing is totally wiping me out.

If I had known when I started this that it would take so long and still be far from perfect, I dont think I would have signed up for it. She breaks my heart into a million pieces every day! And now my little boo has a fever. Gah!!!

Sorry for the novella!

I feel like if/when my child is finally frickin sleep trained, it will be totally due to HB!!!