Sleep training?

Yes! 🙌 I also am struggling with my 9 month old on sleep training lol

Praying for you mama! My baby is 6 1/2 months and we’re struggling too. Some days she’ll randomly nap in the crib but 98% of the time we have to contact nap. She’ll fall asleep in her own at night but she still cosleeps with us. We tried crib training one night and after an hour and a half I couldn’t take it anymore

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Don’t need to wait the 6 mth

I found a lot of success with giving my kiddo a bottle before bed so he’s plenty milk drunk, lay him in his crib while still applying pressure (so he knows I’m still there) and then I would gradually lift the pressure off of him as he was settled in. If he woke up when I took my hands off, I would apply pressure (hand on his back) and repeat the process until he was successfully asleep in his crib. If your daughter is pissed and crying that she’s in the crib then I would lay on the ground next to her crib and hold her hand or rub her back until she falls asleep and then you can crawl out of the room lol. Once my son was a year old, we transitioned into no bottles at bedtime. I would rock him to sleep for about 30 minutes and then once his eyes looked heavy and he was calm (still awake though), I would place him in his crib and lay on the floor next to him, facing away from him (eye contact or speaking to them too much can cause excitement, so try not to interact).

Hi! From my experience, the thing that helped most is our “bedtime setting”: When my baby’s bedtime approaches by around 20 30 min, all the lights are dimmed, no screens, no loud noises, no direct interactions with him (no eye contact or talking to him directly). We keep it quiet. I put him in his sleep sack, give him his bottle with the sound machine on, and help him drift to sleep.
Slowly he started having longer sleep stretches at night and at 3 months he slept through the night.
We also make sure that he has enough milk during the day so that he doesn’t get hungry at night. (We track his intake on an app)
If he wakes up at night, I don’t pick him up, I just keep saying “shhhh” lol and leave my hand on his chest for a little bit until he falls back to sleep. (Unless of course, he can’t be soothed then I pick him up)
I hope that helps! 🤍🙏🏽

My daughter was like this until she was 13 months old. I swear she was in a new regression every other month and the cluster feeding was insane. We tried pretty much everything but ultimately did what we needed to do for our sanity. By we I mean me because she rejected bottles at 4mo. so I was it 24/7. Side feeding and letting her fall asleep with us before transferring her back to her crib really helped. Sometimes she would just stay us, too. The sleep wasn't terrible but the hip pain was real in the morning. Her schedule will happen organically. Gotta do what you need to do to function, girl. It gets better. Hang in there mama.

If my son would stand up then I would kiss him on the head, say “Night night, baby”, lay him down, and lay next to his crib again. If he got up a second time, I still kiss him on the head, shorten the phrase to “night night”, and lay him down again. After he stands up a 3rd time, I would say NO WORDS at all, kiss him on the head, and gently lay him back down. Repeat the process until they successfully lay down, no words though (they view it as a game if you interact too much). My kiddo was able to put himself to sleep in his crib after a couple months of doing this. If your kiddo is having a rough time with it then you can also play some calming lullabies or white noise. No judgement to any parents here but cry-it-out method isn’t needed for a lot of babies. Oftentimes they develop the ability to self soothe when they feel safe enough because their parents consistently show up when needed for night wakings. 😊 Good luck and please don’t be shy to reach out if you need any help!!

Sounds like my first baby. He only slept if he was held because we just never wanted to put him down!

When we finally decided to sleep train he was about 6 months old. We laid him down drowsy but not asleep and he cried almost for an hour before I cracked. It was SO hard. I decided we both weren’t ready.

When he was about 8 months old we decided to try again. I also set a limit as to how long I was comfortable him crying before I gave up. I decided no longer than an hour. So the first night he cried about an hour but after the first 30 mins it definitely ramped down, and slowly tapered off. The second night he cried for 45mins, 30 the next, 15 the next, and then only a few minutes the following nights. Until viola! He was sleep trained!

I understand this isn’t for everyone not will it work for every baby but I just thought I’d share what I did. With my second baby we did a much better job of putting the baby down for naps and sleep and he had no problem with sleep training at all!