Sleep

Hey everyone so my 8 month old daughter consistently wakes up throughout the night from 3-12 times a night since birth . Never slept through . We tried co sleeping for some time but it didn’t work but since she turned 7 months she will sleep much better co sleeping like maybe 1-2 wakes compared to 8/9 wakes in the crib . Do I just give in . Do I persevere with the crib . I miss sleeping with my husband . I don’t want to have to transition her to the crib when she’s older and it be a whole big mission . Any tips or tricks to help crib sleep

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What is her daytime sleep like, how does she fall asleep and is she fed everytime during those wakes, how is she dressed in the night and temperature in the room? Those usually are whar reinforces night wake patterns as well as just some developmental things e.g. Learning new skills. My LO is learning how to crawl and he wakes himself up sometimes trying to crawl in his crib and we just had to ride it out - still happens occasionally. I think once you look at those you might be able to start working on some solutions.

Our ones night wakes were due to sleep association of being rocked to sleep so everytime he finished a sleep cycle and woke up he didn't know how to put himself to sleep. Once we stopped that he's able to put himself back to sleep most of the time if he wakes up but we had to "train him" to get used to not expecting that. Took a couple of weeks but worth it. Also 1-2 wakes is still biologically normal at this age.

Our LO only started sleeping through the night fully in the last two weeks after 1/2 weeks. He turned 8 months last week. Before that he was waking up once a night even when we got wake windows spot on. We haven't really changed anything (as far as we are aware) because who knows with these babies. He just started sleeping through a couple of nights a week occasionally then it became consistent all by himself. You have to choose if co-sleeping gets you the best sleep go for it. We coslept a few times between 4.5- 7 months but now he prefers his space in his crib anyway

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