Crap ... Its Monday... Randoms
Jun 1, 2015 13:58:10 GMT -5
Post by nicb13 on Jun 1, 2015 13:58:10 GMT -5
Ladies - can you tell me what you are doing?
DD gets up 1-3 times a night depending on the night. She eats a good amount each time she wakes up and she seems ravenous.
How do you know when to start sleep training!?
I tried several things before using CIO. We had a bad habit of nursing/giving him a bottle right before bed so I moved the bottle up in his bedtime routine and started reading to him before bed. That helped for a little while. After a month or so though, he started regressing so we did CIO. The mistake I made though was to still give him a bottle when he woke up at night (DS1 was low of the weight percentiles so it took us a long time to get rid of that MOTN bottle because we wanted him to get the extra calories). CIO helped to get him back to bed quickly after the MOTN bottle but he still woke up at night until around 18 months when we got rid of the bottle completely (we moved him completely to a sippy cup at that point, super late) and stopped feeding him in the MOTN.
On hindsight, not feeding him at night might have caused him to STTN on his own - DS1 was and is still a great sleeper though (he frequently took 2-3 hour naps as a newborn and even now will nap that much once a day).
With DS2, we plan to transition him to the crib shortly (long story) and when we do, I will probably change up his bedtime routine as well (we currently nurse right before bed) and will night wean in conjunction with CIO if we go down that path.
I always chuckle when I hear that people read their babies a book before bed. DD would try to eat the book, then cry when she can't and not settle down until she has a bottle. Both my kids have fallen asleep with me rocking them and feeding them a bottle and had zero problems. We are lucky that way I guess.