Ferber method - positive results

I haven’t used the Ferber method for the reason you’ve mentioned - I just could not listen to my son crying and not running to him.

My son is 15 months and at 12.5 months my perfect sleeper just started waking every hour or two. It’s exhausting.

We have been teaching him to self settle without crying by simply putting him to bed in his cot and then sitting next to the cot with a hand on his back and shushing him. It’s not bullet proof and we have had the odd bad night (which I would expect due to nursery illnesses, teething and development) but we have seen such a huge improvement with lots of full nights sleeps.

I know this wasn’t the answer you were looking for, but just wanted to share our experience and give you some hope that things will get better for you xx

I did it, and it went great 👍🏽 she took to the ferber method after 3 days

We did taking Cara babies. I heard it is like ferber. There is some crying but you do interval checkins. We loved the program. I went f m getting 2 hours of sleep at night to baby sleeping 10 hours straight and she is so happy. My baby is 6 months old. It took her one day to catch on. She cried maybe for a max of 10 mins

If you don’t have any luck or are struggling too much with the crying, there’s an Instagram account called “ahealthvisitor” who does a £5 self settling guide with no crying that has really good reviews

I’m happy to share it with you if you’re interested just pop me a message xx

We have not done a specific method unless you call it the Hannah method what is a friend of ours .
It pretty much is like most sleep methods .

Put them to bed when they wake up let them figure it out for 20-30 minutes .
They will figure it out . And think it this way: he is in the safest place possible ! His crib!

10 months, 15 months, and 18 months my daughter struggled HARD with sleep. It lasted a hot minute and was so hard then she started back to only 1 quick wake up a night. Could be a phase.. no advice unfortunately as my daughter turned 2 two weeks ago and still wakes up once a night but she just crawls into my bed now so it’s gotten a lot better. Hang in there!

Not 100% sure on which is Ferber method but we did a version that came with crying and I now 100% recommend it. At 9 months old, my daughter was waking every hour, two if I was lucky, and I knew it was from hunger anymore. Went to her 9 month ped apt and the dr straight up said I need to let her cry. So that night we started.

Bedtime routine which included last bottle. Put her down she’d immediately start screaming, left the room.
First night I checked on her every 5 min. She cried for 30 min. 2nd night checked every 8 min. She cried for 15 min. Night three she gave a little whimper then put herself to sleep.

Now she either sleeps through the night or wakes up only 1-2xs.

I used a sleep consultant to help me out. She did Ferber on my LO at 10 months and at first I was a bit surprised she went straight for this method. It was so hard hearing the cries but I used to feed to sleep so without an intervention she would continue to wake. I was ready to stop breastfeeding at this point and was so tired waking up to 6 times in the night, that I knew something had to change. She took to it really well and on the second night slept through. She even went down for naps which she never did. I will just place her in the cot and she will settle. We do have nights where if she wakes up it’s down to discomfort, but 98% of the time she sleeps through and she is now 17 months. For me it was definitely worth it and one bad night of crying was nothing. She knows she is loved and not neglected and that’s the main thing when it comes to sleep training.

We started Ferber around 9 months and it was so hard to hear her, felt just like you did. It was recommended by her sleep consultant and her doctor, so we stuck with it, and thankfully 3 or 4 days in she was so much better! You’ve got this mama!!

Night 3 and asleep within 5 mins with minimal crying. And during some fireworks haha x

It’s hard hearing the cries but it will do you both so much good when you manage to crack it. It’s helped my LO sleep better and I definitely needed the rest too. You’re doing a great job

Last night over night not so good. Woke around 3:30 and took two hours of trying to resettled . Even tried Co sleeping like we used to when he wouldn’t settle but that didn’t even work. Really hope tonight is better x

We did at 10 months because he was waking up every 40 minutes since 4 months and we had tried everything. Co-sleeping, contact then transfer, every single thing you name it we had tried it. I cried every night of it, it was really awful but after 7 nights his sleep was transformed. The crying gradually got less each night and after 2 weeks he was sleeping through which is something we had NEVER had. I completely hear the mums who say I’d never let my baby cry but when you’re so sleep deprived you feel like you might be in danger, sometimes a more drastic solution is needed. He’s 2 now and he knows we’re always there for him if he calls we always go in. We’ve got a routine that works. You can do this I know it’s so so hard ❤️