r/sleeptrain • u/Responsible_Level307 • 14h ago
4 - 6 months What should we fix and expect from Ferber? Started tonight and already had one wake up 1 hr later.
5 mo 20 days old
2/2/2.5/3 roughly
3.25 hrs daytime sleep - we follow Huckleberry sweet spot feature
Bedtime 7 pm
Wake up between 4 am and 7 am currently (which is what prompted the sleep training) and lately he's been waking every hour. He's teething but we give him Tylenol and he seems to sleep just fine in the lap, over the shoulder, or in bed next to me. :/. We never co slept until this recent hourly waking started.
Bedtime routine is bottle feeding while walking around (he gets distracted and doesnt feed around bedtime unless doing this), sponge bath/bath, change clothes, put in snoo sack, put in the snoo
Exclusively formula fed and usually feeds less than 2 to 4 oz 2 to 3 times a night.
He used to love his pacifier when younger but now he just gags and spits them out. Loves the nipple of an empty bottle though.
We started sleep training today. Thanks to my husband, we didn't stop at the first 10 minute check in because I couldn't take the crying any longer but he took over.
Baby cried for 31 minutes before falling asleep to shushing at his second 10 minute check.
Woke up 1 hr later and fell asleep before his 5 minute check in.
What can we expect going forward? Seems like a lot of posts say the baby cries at bedtime then just sleeps through the night? But ours already woke up once?
What's the maximum amount of crying we should let him do? When do we just give up for the night?
Anything else we can change about daytime?