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This isn’t meant to be a flex, but we are currently sleep training (day 6 of CIO and feeding on the 5/3/3 schedule) and I want to make sure I understand total awake time.

She goes to bed at 7 pm every night and I wake her up at 6:30 am on days I have work. But on my days off she will sleep til 7:30 or 8 am. That only leave 11 hours of daytime so im not sure how to get the 10 hours of awake time besides waking her up earlier.

Anyone else experience this? Do you let your baby sleep in? Keeping bedtime at 7 pm is important to me so I have time to myself to decompress.

Edit to add: when she’s at home with me, I cap daytime sleep to 3 hours. When she’s at daycare she usually only naps 2 hours max

Tonight is night 3 of CIO and 5/3/3 method for my 4 month old.

Sleep for the last month or so was going great until she got an ear infection last week. We went from 13 hour nights with 1 night feed anywhere from 1:30-4:30 am, to feeding every couple hours while she had the ear infection. She is better now, but continued waking more frequently so we decided to sleep train since we needed to ditch the swaddle (and paci) too.

Night 1: 33 minutes of crying at bedtime. Several wake ups, only intervened for two feeds with the 5/3/3 schedule.

Night 2: 8 minutes of crying at bedtime and only
woke to feed at 12am and 4 am.

My question is, is it reasonable to apply 6/3/3 instead and only offer a feed after 1 or 1:30 am since that was the earliest baby would feed prior to getting sick?

I’d love to get back to one night feed like we’ve had for the last month and a half.