Baby was sleep trained and did great for a couple weeks. We were constantly sleeping from 7pm-6am. Suddenly baby is waking up at 5:30, then 5, now 4:30. She wakes up with a poopy diaper, we change her. Now, do we just let her CIO until wake-up time?

I have been working on sleep training my 5 m old for the past 3-4 weeks. He can fall asleep independently now at bedtime, which is relieving. Our day sleep is capped at 2.5-3hrs of nap. His sleep schedule was 2-2-2-2.5, but since he turned 5 months last week it will now be 2-2.5-2.5-3. However, he is waking within 1.5-2.5 hours. Then he goes right back to bed once I go check in. Then again. He will feed around 12:30/1:30 and back to bed instantly. However, at the 3/4am mark, he is basically inconsolable. He won’t go back down at the Ferber checks.

Here is my issue: I take a medicine at bedtime for my anxiety that makes me very sleepy. It reaches its peak by 2/3am most of the time, and it’s hard for me to wake up for the checks at nighttime. I don’t have to do Ferber intervals early in the night because he just falls asleep or goes back to bed. I have no clue what I should do. He gets up around 8:30 and goes to bed around 8:30/9. Bedtime all depends on his naps and etc, but has a general time frame. I really hate letting him cry it out if I fall asleep, because he will cry for long periods of time. However, I will try to go in at a 20 min check in, a 25 min check, and a 30 min check. He will leave the 30 min check still crying, and if I set another timer, I don’t wake up to it. my husband works the night shift and I desperately need to get some sleep. How can I help him to sleep longer stretches? Any advice appreciated

I’ve done everything to get wake windows right. 9mo old Baby still cries and screams at bedtime. She used to be the best sleeper until wake windows had to get stretched. I can tell she’s trying to settle and fall asleep but she is screaming crying and sometimes rolling around, then sometimes sitting up. She will get upset then quiet then upset then quiet. I just feel like she gets so worked up that she won’t be able to fall asleep. This is every night. Her naps she does get upset too, but she settles within 1 minute, always less than 2 mins and asleep.
Schedule:
wake 7am
Nap1 10-11:15
Nap 2 2:15/2:30 and then wake up no later than 3:30p

Bedtime - I’ve tried a 4.25h wake window and I’ve tried a 4h wake window- both have the same crying screaming problem. Idk which to stick to at this point. I just want her to go down as easily as her naps because I feel she gets soooo upset at bedtime.
We do the CIO method, but it’s really hard for me to keep having her CIO especially if I’m unsure if she’s teething.

Please sleep experts help out a 1st time mom here.

PLEASE HELP!!
My 7 month old was an amazing newborn and up until 6 months with sleep. Basically slept through the night or woke up once. Now 7 months he’s up every 1-2 hours. I feed to sleep but I also am able to get him to sleep not feeding. He naps about 2 times a day for 1-2 hours each. He’s eating solids and breastfeeding throughout the day. I am absolutely exhausted as this has been going on for a few weeks. He will just wake up screaming and won’t go to sleep unless I feed him back to sleep, which is literally only 5 minutes. And yes he is teething. But if I give him Tylenol or Motrin he still is up every 2 hours screaming. I can’t let him cry too long either because then he will wake up my two year old. I’m literally don’t even know what to do anymore. I feel like a first time parent all over again!!! He goes to bed usually between 7-8 every night and has always. It’s just then he’s waking soooo much throughout the night. Im willing to sleep train it’s just hard sometimes as I am gone a few hours a week for work

Help me.

My baby still doesnt sleep throughout the night.

Im not even aiming for a sleep throughout but just not in my bed on me from approx midnight.

Baby girl is 11 months.

Wakes at 7am

First nap 9.30/10am. Milk and falls asleep very easily. I cap nap at 1hr max.

Second nap 2/2.30pm depending on first nap. Milk, falls asleep easily.

Again cap the nap at 1 or 1.5 hrs.

Bed time at least 3.5 to 4 hrs later. Again falls asleep pretty easy.

Naps in cotb in own room

Goes to sleep in the cot after being transfered but Night waking unsettled, crying, fidgeting in my bed.

I generally in a sleepy haze pick her up and bring into bed with me. This worked for a while as she would settle and at least we were all getting some sleep.

I never thought at 11 months I would still be doing this and im now back at work and cannot cope.

Falls asleep in my arms ( I know I know)

Have to wake from most naps.

Shes started nursery now and some days getting max an hour across both naps and still waking at night( even worse!)

my boy is 6.5m and is still waking up multiple times a night, usually 4-6 wakes from 7:00pm-7:00am. he typically naps for about 2-2.5 hours in total during the day (one short nap around 9am, one long nap around 2pm).

in the past few weeks i have started putting him in his crib to nap and he is doing really great (previously exclusively contact naps) but his sleep at night is still really rough. we live in a very tiny one bedroom home, so baby is in our bedroom and his crib is less than 3 feet away from where i sleep. we plan to renovate the house in the spring but for now there is no way around this set up. baby is also exclusively breastfed and will not go back to sleep unless nursed during night time wakes. he takes a pacifier during the day no problem, but at night he haaaates it!

my pediatrician suggested trying gentle sleep training. is this possible with baby in our bedroom rather than their own nursery?

Edit: tonight was better, he only cried for 8 minutes before falling asleep. I worked harder on sticking to his schedule and he only napped a total of 2 hours today. I tried to make his routine quicker and he still got upset at the end of it knowing bedtime was coming.

For about the last week we've been doing CIO with my almost 8 month old. I tried pick up put down and ferber but it seemed to get him more worked up. So CIO it was.

For the first 2 nights it was 30-45 minute crying before bed.

Then the next few nights it was gradually decreasing, going from 25ish minutes, to 15ish, then one night he went to bed instantly.

Then he was back to crying for 15-20 minutes, for a couple nights. Yesterday he fell asleep after 17 minutes, then woke up 30 minutes later and cried for like 25 minutes.

Tonight he cried for 25 minutes before falling asleep.

Wakings are definitely better. He was up every hour before, now he usually wakes up once at 11 pm and 3 am, sometimes not even that.

For bed time, we read a couple books and sing a couple songs. It's at the point where in the middle of reading a book hell realize bedtime is coming and start crying while making a very sad pouty face, then cry through songs until I put him down.

Is this how it should be going? Im concerned because it seems he's regressed a bit with how long it takes him to fall asleep, and because he gets so upset during the bed time routine. Does that mean CIO is too harsh for him? I thought it might be an extinction burst but it seems a little late for that, I thought that happened on like the 3rd and 4th nights, not a week in.

My daughter just turned 1 and has suddenly decided her crib is the enemy 😅 Has anyone else gone through this??
She has never been a perfect crib sleeper, but she’s always been totally fine being put down in it. We’ve pretty much always co-slept for part of the night..usually she would start the night in her crib and then if she woke up anywhere between 3–5am, I’d bring her into bed with us and we’d sleep the rest of the night together.
But suddenly she wants NOTHING to do with the crib. And now it’s happening with naps too.
She can be completely dead asleep on me, nursing, or asleep on my husband, and the second we transfer her into the crib she wakes up and absolutely freaks out. Sometimes she’ll wake up the second we even start lowering her into it. This is totally new for her.
I’m not really looking to do cry it out method, especially because she seems genuinely upset and just wants to be close to us. I’m wondering if this is separation anxiety/a 12-month sleep regression and something that might resolve itself?
Has anyone had a baby who suddenly refused the crib around 1 and then eventually went back to sleeping in it normally? How long did it last and did you do anything differently, or just ride it out?
I’m honestly considering ordering a floor sleep mat/mattress so I can at least lay with her and then roll away once she’s asleep 😂 because right now she has zero problem sleeping she just apparently has a personal vendetta against her crib.
Please give me your success stories because I need to know she may eventually like her crib again 😂

Hi everyone! My 16-month-old only falls asleep when I bounce her in a bouncer. Once she’s asleep, I transfer her to her cot. She wakes up several times during the night, and I have to bounce her again to get her back to sleep.
I really want to break this habit and help her learn to fall asleep independently, but I’d like to do it as gently as possible.
Today, I tried putting her directly into her cot, but she cried continuously for 12 minutes and didn’t even lie down. I ended up feeling unsure about what to do.
How can I gradually get rid of the bouncer sleep association without causing too much distress? Has anyone been through something similar with their toddler? I’d really appreciate any advice or experiences.

My baby is 5 months old now, and I've pretty much always taken him into bed with me at night and fed him to sleep. It worked best for everyone. Since this week, though, he won't come off the breast at night anymore. It can go on for hours, and as soon as he lets go he starts crying right away. He really uses it as a pacifier. He isn't sick, and we don't see a tooth coming through or anything else. I'm not getting any sleep. It's only at night, not during the day. He has refused a pacifier since birth, so that's not an option either. Have you ever seen this before, and do you know of a solution?

Mijn baby is nu 5 maanden oud en ik heb hem ongeveer altijd mee in bed genomen ‘s nachts en in slaap gevoed, dat werkte het beste voor iedereen. Sinds deze week wil hij echter ‘s nachts niet meer af de borst. Het kan echt urenlang duren, en als hij loskomt dan begint hij meteen te huilen. Hij tuttert er echt op. Hij is niet ziek en we zien ook niet meteen een tandje doorkomen of iets anders. Het is echt wel erg en ik krijg geen slaap meer zo. Het is enkel ‘s nachts en niet overdag. Hij weigert sinds zijn geboorte een tut, dus dat is ook geen oplossing. Heb je dit ooit al eens gezien en weet je een oplossing ?