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6-month-old suddenly struggling at bedtime after successful Ferber. What would you adjust?

We sleep trained using Ferber and it worked well. She can fall asleep independently, and naps are still mostly okay.

For the past week, things changed:

- Some naps she still falls asleep fine, but others she cries for ~10 minutes first

- Bedtime has become a nightmare. She’s been crying up to an hour most nights

- I do check-ins, have tried feeding, even offered a bottle but she doesn’t really want it

- A couple of times after an hour of trying, I ended up holding her to sleep because she just wouldn’t settle

Wake windows are around 2–2.5 hours during the day, and the last wake window before bed is about 2.5–3 hours. Routine hasn’t really changed.

I’m trying to figure out:

- Is this a regression, overtiredness, or something else?

- Should I stick with Ferber, adjust intervals, or switch to extinction?

- Could my check-ins or interventions be making things worse?

Would really appreciate hearing what worked for others in a similar situation.

So we decided to sleep train our baby at around 5 months and we did the Ferber method. In about a week and a bit she had learned to self soothe and was falling asleep on her own for naps as well as bedtime.

Her bedtime is 9pm wakes up between 8.30 to 10am and has wake windows between 1.5 to 2.5 hours. She's been sleeping alone for the past month and all of a sudden it's like we didn't even sleep train her. She's screaming hysterically at nights after I've fed changed burped her I do check-ins but doesn't seem to help at all. I pick her up soothe her and put her back only for the screaming to start again.

And the thing is for some naps she will still fall asleep on her own with zero crying but for other and bedtime she doesn't anymore.

I don't know what to do anymore it's driving me crazy. We thought we were done with the sleep issues once we had sleep trained her

She has a bedtime routine where we feed her bath her and read her a story tell her good night and leave but doesn't make much of a difference.