E is 6.5 months and I thought she was ready for sleep training but now I'm not so sure. She would put herself to sleep after early morning nursing about 30% of the time, we nursed to sleep in my bed for all other sleeps and she usually sleeps 7 hours the first stretch.
Tonight is the first night of CIO in her own room and she *only* cried for 30 mins before falling asleep. But after three hours she's up and hysterical, it's been about 45 minutes. I tried to feed her even though she's usually not hungry until way later, she didn't want to so I put her back down. The crying doesn't seem to be waning. I've never heard of this? Usually babies cry to sleep then they just sleep until their usual feeding time or sttn no? That's how it was with my first LO. I am going to stick it out tonight and nurse her for naps tomm since she'll be exhausted but am not sure if I should try again tomm night? This is so hard!!
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I have slept trained (sleep trained? that sounds wrong) all three of my children and all three reacted so differently. My middle child was a breeze, when we trained him, he just naturally dropped his MOTN wake up and feedings. My youngest, who is 9 months old, still randomly wakes up in the middle of the night. He doesn't consistently wake up at the same time, for the same length of time, or even the same amount of wake ups a night! I could totally see my youngest doing this exact thing.
I would say you did the "right" thing. That's what I would have done last night, too. And, keep with it. She might do much better tonight.
Good luck! Sleep training sucks, but sleeping through the night is glorious!
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Hi there....we are sleep training this weekend also. We are doing Ferber with the timed checks. So, on Thursday (night 1), she cried for 27 minutes and then slept for around 40 minutes. She then woke up and cried 70 minutes off and on! We had a limit before going in (1.5 hours), but she luckily fell asleep before that. Last night, she cried 9 minutes, slept for 30 minutes. But then she cried off and on for 50 minutes until falling asleep again. Soooo, we too are having longer crying for MOTN wakings versus the initial bedtime. The only thing my husband and I think could be happening is that maybe she is crying more because she got some sleep and is more energized and has more stamina to cry longer? Perhaps that is what happening with your LO? We are not nap training at the same time because I want her to get some decent sleep. Either way, I would stick it out if I were you at least for a couple of days to give it a better chance of working. Otherwise, you would have let her do all that crying last night for nothing. That is what I keep telling myself. We are to be consistent or she just cried all that time for nothing. Good luck!!!
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@ellewoods84: @MamaBehr: thanks for replying. She cried from 1:45-3:00, fell asleep (I think passed out is more like it) but continued to cry here and there with her eyes closed for another half hour. I finally let myself sleep at 4 and got her up at 8, which is our regular wake up time. Bad news is she threw up and I didn't know, may be why she was crying extra hard MOTN. Good news is now I know she doesn't have to eat for 11 hours.
She seems a bit traumatized today, not really smiley and cries easily when I leave the room. That's been difficult to witness, my first LO cried for much longer to fall asleep but at least was happy to see me in the morning. I'll keep going though, thanks for the encouragement!
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@ellewoods84: I just reread your comment, did you do checks for MOTN wake ups? I did the 3,5,10,10 as per the book and wonder if that prolonged the crying?
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@MamaChin: I'm getting ready to do some MOTN training. When I attempted it at four months it was pretty clear my LO wasn't ready. The MOTN crying was WAY worse than bedtime and after 1 night of it, we abandoned MOTN and focused solely on bedtime. Good luck mama!!!
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@Leah: thanks! When you say you abandoned motn, do you mean you reverted back to whatever worked before? Rocking, nursing to sleep, cosleeping, etc?
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@MamaChin: @Leah: we trained for bedtime and it was easy peasy. I was hoping this would be some magic to get her to sleep all night but my lo still wakes up randomly!! We typically ignore until 3 or so when I feed her
idk if this just won't stop until I wean? Do we have to drop all night feedings? Idk babies are tricky! There seems to be no rhyme or reason!! Hopefully the motn gets better for everyone!
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@MamaChin: yes we are doing checks for MOTN wake ups also, following the Ferber book. Night 3 tonight.......
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@MamaChin: we hired a sleep consultant who advised us to work only on bedtime first and move on to MOTN when he mastered bedtime. After a few nights of just focusing on bedtime, we attempted MOTN and it has HORRIBLE. We couldn't do it! We just fed him when he woke up, which was about 3 times. Since then he started waking up a lot more (4 month sleep regression I think) ... and so we are ready to try CIO again!
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@ellewoods84: good luck!
@Leah: our problem was never MOTN wake ups!! She would sleep 9-4 or 9-6, eat and go back to sleep. Our issue was nurse to sleep and cosleeping. I hope this won't add to her issues. Good luck to you!
@gotkimchi: my first just dropped his night feeds on his own when we trained for bedtime. Hope your LO does the same eventually!
Good luck! Sleep training sucks, but sleeping through the night is glorious!
idk if this just won't stop until I wean? Do we have to drop all night feedings? Idk babies are tricky! There seems to be no rhyme or reason!! Hopefully the motn gets better for everyone!
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