Comments on: Will Sleep Training Damage Your Relationship With Your Baby?

By: Janelle Reid

Janelle Reid — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:31:23 +0000

In reply to Jamstar.

Hi @Jamstar, thanks for writing to us. I am sorry you’ve been struggling with frequent wake ups at night. We’d love to help, and there are lots of approaches to help doing this besides just leaving him there crying alone, so don’t worry. Here is a link to a free guide with tips to help your baby sleep through the night: https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-through-night-free-ebook/
If you need more help, we’d love to work with you on this. Our sleep consultants can take you through every step of the way and provide you with a plan you feel comfortable with as you begin to break those sleep associations he has to being rocked. You can view the options to work with a consultant here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-toddler-sleep-consulting-services/
I hope this helps! Hang in there!

By: Jamstar

Jamstar — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:48:51 +0000

In addition, we’ve tried sleep training. His usual bedtime is 830pm. We have a bedtime routine (shower, dress in pyjamas, say goodnight to daddy n mummy, sing then sleep) and he has cried for more than 30mins with no sign of tiring out. We stop it because we couldn’t take the crying any longer. Any earlier for bedtime and he treats it like a evening nap. We’ve been up until 12mn before because we put him to bed at 7pm as recommended and he woke at 11pm fully awake.

By: Jamstar

Jamstar — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 01:53:48 +0000

Hi,
I have been feeding and rocking my 8 month old Son to sleep since he was a newborn but I’m starting work soon and I cannot function in the day waking up so much at night. We need rock him until he’s fully asleep before putting him down because we’ve tried putting him down when he’s sleepy and he’ll cry loudly immediately when he touches his crib and become fully awake again. Also, when he whines at night, we pick him up to feed/rock him to sleep which affects our own rest too. I would love any suggestions to help us out.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 02:51:38 +0000

In reply to Brie W..

Hi Brie,
Thank you for reading The Baby Sleep Site! I’m sorry you’re experiencing this sudden setback, especially since it sounds like your family’s been doing so well with sleep. If you haven’t already considered illness, it may be worth a check-in with your pediatrician just in case you’re dealing with an ear infection or other medical issue. If your son is healthy and still having trouble, the unfortunately the issue could be a lot of things, including a growth spurt, a scheduling issue, a change in sleep needs due to his growth, etc. There is a 12 month sleep regression that affects some babies – we have an article on that here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-naps-2/12-month-olds-one-nap-transition/
If you do need more help diagnosing the issue, our sleep consultants would love to help! We work with this age very often. You can read more about our consultation packages here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-toddler-sleep-consulting-services/

By: Brie W.

Brie W. — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:46:48 +0000

We sleep trained our baby at 4.5 months and it was like a dream come true, he slept consistently for 12 to 13 hours per night, every night, unless ill. His routine was simple and when done we would lie him in the crib, he would immediately pop his thumb in and quietly fall asleep as we closed his room door behind us. Even traveling, he would struggle perhaps for a night or two but then very quickly settle in back to his 12-hour night sleep.

Until last week, when he turned 1. It’s like our perfectly sleep trained baby has been kidnapped and replaced. Now approaching the crib has turned into a drama session, we continue the same bedtime routine diligently but now as soon as he is put down into the crib he immediately stands up and bounces and wails, tuning in to a much worse wail when we leave the room.
Whereas in his first sleep training when he was tiny he never cried for longer than 12 minutes, yesterday we had to leave him almost 30 minutes crying in his crib and he did not give up or slow down at all. His usual wake up ( 7, 7:30 am) has now shifted to 5:30am, followed by another struggle of now wanting to go back to sleep. Is this just a regression or will we have to entirely retrain him from the scratch? It is so much harder now that he is older.

By: Janelle Reid

Janelle Reid — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:02:08 +0000

In reply to Arvin.

@Arvin I am so sorry to hear you are struggling with your daughter’s sleep! It is not too late to sleep train and help her improve her sleep. We would love to help.
I understand the concern since she is adjusting to daycare and being worried about her separation anxiety, but the good news is there are many gentle approaches to sleep training and our sleep consultants would love to help walk you through them. Here is a link to an article series that will take you through various sleep training techniques you may want to try: https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-training/sleep-training-from-no-cry-to-cry-series-part-1/
Please let us know if we can help and we wish you the best of luck!

By: Arvin

Arvin — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 09:20:37 +0000

Ignore my previous post. sent the post too soon. here is the full post.
My daughter is 13months old now.
Until 7 months, she used to sleep in her crib.. we never had any problem putting her to sleep. And then she wants to touch our hands when going to sleep. Otherwise she can’t sleep. so we started putting her in the baby sling (Ergo Baby) and she falls alseep within few mins. we followed that as it made our life easier. Maybe thats the problem. and then gradually it got worsened as she can’t sleep on her own anymore. Now when she became 1 yr, She wants to put her fingers into our mouth.. that’s how she gets pacified. she’s been doing this lately and we tried to stop her doing that. But she starts crying and getting restless.

ince last month we started leaving her in the day care, as my wife has started working. She was sick for few weeks, so we started putting her in our bed. After she became well, sleeping has become difficult for her.. She keeps crying and wants us all the time. We think it is due to the fact she is in a place where it is new for her(day care) and her dependence on us to sleep. she wakes up after an hr so and keeps looking for us and starts crying if she doesn’t see us.
we are thinking about starting the sleep training as she is not able to sleep on her own and also not sleep continuously. we are bit worried how this is gonna as she is already suffering from separation anxiety and now putting her through this sleep training.

I am wondering if this training is still possible for a 13 months old baby or is it too late?

By: Arvin

Arvin — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 08:52:06 +0000

Hi,
I have 13 months old daughter. since last month we started leaving her in the day car, as my wife has started working. Since then my daughter has problems sleeping. She keeps crying and wants us all the time. we are thinking about starting the sleep training as she is not able to sleep on her own and also not sleep continuously.
I am wondering if this training is still possible for a 13 months old baby or is it too late?

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:29:36 +0000

In reply to Mike Danpe. Hi Mike, Thanks for using the Baby Sleep Site as a resource! We're so glad to hear you found a sleep training approach that worked for your family. We're not familiar with that product, but are happy your family is sleeping well!

By: Mike Danpe

Mike Danpe — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 19:10:50 +0000

Very nice article. I have done some sleep training for my infant and I used the crib warmer mattress pad from http://heatingmattresstopperpad.com/ The product worked really well and my son had no problem sleeping with the pad. Not only did it keep my child warm throughout the night but it also allowed me to get a good nights sleep.