Sleep training

Any sleep training tips for me or those not quite ready to do the cry it out method yet? 🙂

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I desperately need help too. My little girl is sick right now though so it’s been a struggle with her waking up 8 times in 5 hours 🫠🫠🫠

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Would highly recommend the Ferber method and avoid CIO at all costs.

I followed Talking Cara Babies. She has videos that literally explain everything about sleep training. It cost money but totally worth it.

I follow her and our son sleeps like a dream every night. He is even sick right now with the gi bug.

I did the cry it out and it worked for us,my baby got more overstimulated when I enter the room when we were tring the gentler method.. so we just did traditional CIO.
The first 3 days were intense, but after that she was folling asleep withing 10 min, then 7, then not crying at all.
Now we place her in her crib and she takes about 5 minutes moving and adjusting to find her spot and then falls asleep immediately. From 6:30 pm to 6 am non stop.
Initially was waking up at 10 pm for a dreamfeed but after about 2 weeks just started sleeping the 12 hours non stop.

We didn't pay but just read many web articles.

Also she was 5 months.. she is now 6 months.

I coslept with my 2 since I was breastfeeding. I also had their crib in our room till they were a yr. I would wake them up to feed every 2-4 hours. Alternate them from my bed to theirs between feeds. When it came to bed time they didn't view the crib as being away. My oldest would go through sleep regression I would lay with him till he was cozy n leave come back if he needed me but he took to it quickly. Now he's almost 2 n I don't even have to stay. Feels like he kicks me out to go to bed lol

Parental presence sleep training is working great for our five month old now, we started when he was four months. My husband and I stay in the room laying in bed after I put my son down. Let him cry for five minutes then console him for 30 to 45 seconds, then lay back down, let him cry for seven minutes and then console him for 30 to 45 seconds lay back down and then repeat, and I increase the time by two minutes.
It is recommended to increase the time by five minutes. So 5/10/15 then every 15 ongoing. We have a routine before I lay him down, and a month into this now, I lay him down, he doesn’t even cry anymore!! I lay him down awake (is the key) and he just closes his eyes within 3-5 minutes.
It took about a week for him to get used to it.

Baby wearing ❤️ we loved it both

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Can someone pls help i keep making this post and nobody is responding

My boyfriend booked a trip for us to go to mexico for a week as my push present. I have severe anxiety leaving my 7 month old with my mom. I know she will be in good hands but she’s exclusively breast fed for the most part but accepts bottles just fine. i have all my pumping parts packed and will pump when baby normally eats but i don’t want baby to forget me or have latch issues when i return!! any mommas ever experience this?

Postpartum

I’m only 3 days postpartum (FTM) and already have extremely bad anxiety. I’m crying every night, as I think of another night of no sleep. My baby will not settle in his cot, he cries every moment we put him down unless in his chair rocker. So me and my partner are having to alternate after 3/4 hours of being awake with him downstairs. I’m trying everything to get him to settle. It’s a load of overwhelming stress. I’m 23, I was desperate for a baby and now I have one and feel completely useless. I miss it just being me and my partner.

When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

Night time routine

Heya, my 3 week old daughter is currently exclusively breastfed and I’m not pumping. Can anyone recommend the best way to share the load with my partner? At the moment I’m doing all the feeds/burbs/settling and my partner is sleeping through which obviously isn’t sustainable, I’m trying to work out the best way to get him involved. Any advice very much appreciated!

Rapid cool/ hot shot method

Sorry if this sound stupid but how are we doing the hot shot method?
Are we boiling the kettle and letting it cool a little before adding to hot flask? Then with the cool water do you boil the kettle and leave it to cool right down before putting into another flask?
My baby brain is fried trying to work out the easiest way!