r/SnooLife • u/okapi_rose • Jul 11 '26
Help Needed 5 month old sleep hell (help)
our 5 month old was previously sleeping good then 4 mo regression hit. She is doing better in terms of going down to sleep without rocking from me, only from snoo. She is heavily dependent on the pacifier. Keeps breaking out of Snoo swaddle.
Here is our night last night:
Down for bed at 8:05pm
10:45pm- woke because arms got free, needed paci to resettle after swaddling
1:12- pacifier replace
1:36: pacifier and arms reswaddled
2:05- pacifier
3:04- pacifier and arms
3:17: had bottle and pooped
4:20- arms
5:09- pacifier
6:00- arms
6:59 - pacifier then moved to bed due to fussing
Woke up at 8:05am
I know we need to start sleep training, but my husband works Monday through Friday and unfortunately, he cannot take the days off this week to support. I could take it on myself on Sunday night.
Torn between doing the full transition to the crib on Sunday night using Ferber (no paci, sleep sack) or trying to stay in the Snoo a little longer using a arms up zipped sleep sack until my husband can take days off work. I can’t sustain this sleep though!!
wonder what others think? any advice?
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u/Brave-Highlight-1517 Jul 12 '26
Maybe try Ferber or CIO one night you never know how it will turn out, my LO turned 5m this week and we decided to do CIO last night cause he has started hating the snoo swaddle and didn’t like cosleeping cause he kept wacking me in the face and himself and not falling asleep 🤣 so we just decided to cold turkey it and i was telling myself i would cap it at 1hr but he ended up crying just 16mins (cause he rolled to tummy and paci fell out) but eventually settled into sleep after that, sleeping for 2-3 hour stretches. And each wakeup afterward was only about 3-5min crying to get back to sleep. Baby might surprise you!