Sleeping through

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This might not be so helpful, we had a similar thing, my daughter was teething so bought her back in just before one. She’s always been a terrible sleeper. When I found out I was pregnant and was getting bigger by the day we needed her out. We tried everything and nothing worked, she’s so clingy, so my husband started to basically cosleeps with her, she would go to bed and wake up at some point in the early hours and he would go down, try to comfort her and then leave but it didn’t work, he tried for hours and for months and in the end I needed the sleep, so when she wakes up he just goes down and stays with her then on until the morning. I’m sorry to say but the baby is now 7 months old and this still happens every night, he helps until 2/3am with the baby and then when she wakes up he leaves to sleep with her. We tried many times but decided she won’t need us forever and when so much changed with the baby for her we decided this is minor when we all get some sleep

White noise for the noise and I ll send you something I had drafted for someone re sleep training. Given her age I would move to the leaving the room stage in about a week. Just started sleep training my youngest tonight.

We started at 6.5 months by moving him in his own room, putting him down awake and shushing and patting until he slept. He cried for 45 mins the first night but it became much better soon afterwards. The sleep consultant had said to start from the night but you should be consistent and do the same for all naps. No feeding or rocking to sleep. Already from the first night he only woke up once (instead of every 2-3 hours) and about 2 weeks later he started sleeping through. You should also start decreasing night feeds if you still offer them. First max 2, then 1, then push back the 1 to about 4-5am, then none. Routine is also important and we were told that he needs to wake up between 6-7am.

Anything earlier insist he goes back to sleep and if not awake at 7 wake him up. Some months later he started becoming trickier to put down so we ended up going a step up which meant leaving the room. You then give them 5 mins and after that you can go in for 30 seconds every 3 minutes if they cry a lot. Although the crying phase for both steps lasted for less than a week and now he goes down happily.

@Rach it's not ideal but definitely a back up option. She's the most clingy baby to me tho so is only just now starting to trust dad to do bedtime (rather annoyingly).

@Elsa we've tried her before she will literally scream for hours if we let her. I got to 5 times in her room her face was streaming in tears and she was clinging to me for dear life and it broke my heart. I couldn't do it again. I know it's great for some babies but just wouldn't work with my girl even at nursery she insists on being held to sleep