Comments on: Are You Sleep Training a Tortoise or a Hare?

By: Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site

Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 03:29:34 +0000

In reply to Andy. Thanks Andy! Keep reading!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:10:24 +0000

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By: Neosha

Neosha — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 01:10:14 +0000

In reply to Chantelle.

@Chantelle – Thank you for reading and for sharing with us. I’m sorry to hear that your little guy is having such a tough time with sleep lately. I know how exhausted you all must be from personal experience! Have you considered any formal sleep coaching for him yet? Like creating a specific sleep plan for him to help him sleep better and lose those sleep associations? If not, I’d invite you to read this series of articles for tips on how to teach him the skills that he needs to be able to learn how to sleep on his own. It will also give you an overview of sleep training techniques:
https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-training/sleep-training-from-no-cry-to-cry-series-part-1/ Once you’ve read this, you can see what type of sleep training (if any) you would like to try.

If you would like additional help with this issue, please contact us again so we can help with you some options!https://www.babysleepsite.com/contact Hang in there, Chantelle, and please keep reading!

By: Chantelle

Chantelle — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 07:13:15 +0000

My LO is 7 months old. He doesn’t seem to have learnt how to connect sleep cycles! We are beyond exhaustion and I’m becoming ill due to 7 months of sleep deprivation. He has 2-3 naps during day but for a 1.5hr nap needs resettling with dummy about 5 times. Wakes every 2hrs during night for dummy and breastfeeds 3 times a night still. He eats 3 solids meals plus 4-5 breastfeeding sessions during day. He can insert dummy himself but refuses to look for it. We leave him to cry before going in to settle him. Any help appreciated!

By: Janelle Reid

Janelle Reid — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:30:58 +0000

In reply to Kayleigh.

@Kayleigh, Thank you for your comment! I am sorry you have been struggling with your daughter’s night callings for milk! This is a fairly common issue, but will take a plan and consistency from you to break her of this habit. It is likely she has developed a sleep association to the bottle and when she goes through a lighter sleep cycle, she wakes up and needs the association recreated for her in order to go back asleep. Here is an article with more information on sleep associations: https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-training/sleep-association/
You may enjoy reading this article as well as it takes you through various sleep training techniques to help break the associations: https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-training/sleep-training-from-no-cry-to-cry-series-part-1/
I hope this helps! If you find you need more help, email our client relations team at contact@babysleepsite.com and they can point you in the direction of some other options. Thank you for using the Baby Sleep Site as a resource!

By: Kayleigh

Kayleigh — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:41:58 +0000

My 17month old goes to sleep with a bottle of milk and sometimes wants more to fall a sleep and will cry till we give her more at 7pm. then she will wake up between 12-1am screaming and crying until gets her bottle. I’ve stopped giving her extra milk at those times, but give her water which sometimes works but she will wake up again between 3-4 and then again at 5.30 when she’s just awake from then and stays awake, she nap at 12-1.30 most days and eats pretty well when she’s not teething not sure how to stop the constant crying and screaming at night for her bottle

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 01:56:33 +0000

In reply to Vincienne.

Hi Vincienne,
Thank you for visiting our sleepy village! I’m sorry to hear your son is waking so much at night, especially for that long 1-2 hour period in the middle of the night. It sounds like you might be dealing with a combination of a scheduling issue and some sleep associations that are stopping him from sleeping through the night when he wakes between sleep cycles. You might like to have a look at our sample 6 month schedule here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/schedules/6-month-old-baby-schedule/
And our article on sleep associations here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-training/sleep-association/
We’d love to help you further – can you email us with some more information on your son’s current schedule, including his daytime feedings? It’s contact@babysleepsite.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

By: Vincienne

Vincienne — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:43:22 +0000

Hello Mummies,

I have a 6 months baby. He sleeps at around 9pm after I give him a bath and a formula bottle 180ml. He wakes up again at 11pm for another bottle and sleep until 3am. He then wakes up for an hour or two (watch Baby TV) have another bottle and get back to sleep afterwards.

I am feeling exhausted as my night sleeps are being interrupted a lot apart that I think he is drinking too much milk!

Does anyone have the same problem? or any tips what I can do? :-/

By: Paula

Paula — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:56:35 +0000

My daughter will be 9 months old on Wednesday. I trained her at 4 months with the no cry method. She slept wonderfully from 7:30 to 6 am without waking up.
Now, she refuses to sleep without me. I know she’s teething, but I haven’t really slept in 3 weeks. I tried to do the no crying method but she refused that. So I’ve been trying the controlled crying method for 2 weeks… it never works.
I give her everything I can for the pain, and she is comfortable. If she wasn’t, she wouldn’t go to sleep at all when I give in at 45 mins to lay down with her.
I don’t know what to do about this.
Another key point (I don’t know if it could affect her sleep) is that 3 weeks ago, I found out the daycare she was going to put her in her crib and left her there for ridiculous amounts of time. Since then I stopped looking for a job and decided to stay home with her until she can tell me whats going on. This is when this all started.
Any advice would help greatly!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:59:19 +0000

My son will be 8 months old, and right from the beginning he has not been a full night sleeper, infact lately for the past 3 months he has been getting up every 2hrs at night, i feed him, as soon as he gets up and then he falls asleep, but the 2hrs gap never fails. sometimes he sleeps by 8pm and gets up by 6am, that too first he will wine and roll around with his eyes closed and then he wakes up. I cannot bear to leave him alone when he is crying, so the leave and let cry option does not work for me.