Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Need advice for night wakings


I am super sleep deprived so I am apologizing for my rambling and awful sentence structuring now. So this is what's up:I have a one year old and we have been trying to gently sleep train her for months with no progress, we have been bedsharing up until last night. Last night I succumbed to trying to CIO with me in the room with her in the crib (in her own room) and me in a mattress so I could stay with her while she cried. She cried for fourty minutes then finally went to sleep, I felt awful and cried too so please only constructive comments. Anyway she went to sleep but then woke up 2.5 hours later at 11:30 wanting to breastfeed and I let her, she actually seemed hungry. Then she fell asleep on my lap and I put her in crib again right away but she went to sleep, I was surprised but relieved. She then woke up again at 2:00am and we did the same thing, and again at 3:30am then again at 5:00 am but I had to take her back In our bed because I was exhausted and she wouldn't go back to sleep without being next to me. So I know that I need to at least cut the feeds in half. I also wonder if this is habitual waking because the whole reason I needed to start sleep training is because she was waking every two hours to feed in our bed and it got so out of control. So I'm unsure if I should try to go in an hour before the usual wake time and stir her a bit to get her to try to get out of this habitual waking. I also don't know what method to use to get baby to go back to sleep without feeding. I have a three year old so I try to get her back to sleep in the middle of the night without crying. I'm not sure if I can get away with getting her to sleep on her own without a feed without crying but I want too. She also was/is a Velcro baby, I don't know if this info is pertinent, she is pretty willful. I guess I don't know what my next steps are and I'm trying it figure out what to do, and how I should go about tackling these wakings and weaning on the feedings. I'm pretty hopeless. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2KiBqpr

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