My baby girl is 8 months old, exclusively BF (won’t take a bottle), doesn’t eat much food at all yet and we sleep trained and moved her into her own room at 6 months old.
We used Ferber technique which turned into CIO because going in after the time intervals just made her cry harder. By the 3rd night she had self settled within 10mins.
The massive pros of sleep training is that I BF before bath time and then she settles herself to sleep without the boob within 5-10 mins almost every night.
However, she wakes up normally at 1am ish and 4am ish. We’ve left her to cry but there’s no end, she seems hungry.
Does anyone have any insight into how I can stop at least one night feed? My bedtime is 2200 ish which means I’m only (I say “only” lightly to a bunch of sleep deprived parents!) getting 3 hours sleep in a row and not feeling the benefit of sleep training. I found it so hard to do, and makes me wonder whether it was actually worth the heart ache. Any tips or insight would be amazing! I’m wondering whether a dream feed might be a good idea at 10pm to stretch to maybe one wake? But that might create bad habits. Or I’m telling myself that when she eats more she’ll sleep better - whenever that might be?!
0630/0700 awake
0900-1000 nap 1
1300-1430 nap 2
1845 bed time