Sleep trained 16 mo. old still waking at night. What now?
We recently sleep trained our 16 month old using Ferber (after initially trying at 6 months and failing) It’s been 2 weeks and he is still crying when he goes down, but usually only for a few minutes and then falls asleep. Not bad!
However, it hasn’t helped night wakes, which is the whole reason we tried it. He is still waking 1-4x a night!
He goes to sleep at 7:30pm, wakes up on his own between 5:30 - 6:00am.
He takes 1 nap at about 11:30am (he is falling asleep by then). He usually sleeps 1.5-2 hrs for nap and wakes naturally.
His night wakes are totally inconsistent. Sometimes he wakes 3x but goes back down fairly quickly with holding/rocking. Other times he just wakes once but it takes 2 hours and multiple tries to get back down! Totally random. On average he is only sleeping in his crib maybe 9 hours total per night.
He does not get or want milk at night. He also does occasionally out himself back to sleep after fussing but usually not. We only go in at night if he’s standing up fully crying.
So far we have tried moving bedtime to 8pm or 7pm with no improvement.
Maybe he is low sleep needs, but he slept a ton as a newborn and he always fall asleep if we take a car ride, so I don’t know… any ideas?