8m sleep regression help
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Between 5-8 months my baby’s sleep wasn’t great, usually he’d do the first chunk of sleep in his cot but it was a struggle to get him back down after the first or second wake up so he would end up in bed with me most nights. He is ebf and I have tried to not feed to sleep for a little while now (not always successfully) at bedtime I feed in light room and keep him awake, once he’s finished feeding we will read a couple of books and then I put him in his cot fully awake, switch on white noise, give him his dummy and switch off the light. I’ve not sleep trained him so I will sit next to the cot and support him to go to sleep (if he’s needs it) but I try and not pick him up and rock him etc. if he get upset I will try and soothe him without picking up but sometimes end up picking I know a lot of people who have sleep trained (Ferber method) and it’s been very successful, I would have done this but my partner was not on board!
Hey my Lg started the 8 month regression a little bit earlier , it lasted a month and one week- up every 30 mins /1 hour wouldn’t settle unless she was sleeping on me , we have been co sleeping for months and that didn’t bring her much comfort during this phase, she’s always been bottle fed and during this period I gave her as much as she needed for comfort , I didn’t change her schedule I just went with it accepted it’s a sleep regression and she will Come out the other side. For the past week she’s slept amazingly at night and went down for her usual naps - hope it doesn’t last as long as a month like it did for me it was brutal worse than the new born trenches good luck xx
We're just coming out of this, we ended up co sleeping for about 2 weeks just so we could all get some rest, then started putting her in her bed more and more until she decided she wanted to sleep there again
Have you tried to co-sleep? Lullaby trust has safe cosleeping advice if you want to try it. My boy at some point refused to sleep in his bed, or was waking up every 30mins. If sleeping with me, he does 6-7 hours stretches regularly.