1st Night in Crib - help?

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My LO is 6 months and yesterday I just bit the bullet and ended the co-sleeping. 😩 I am so sad about it but I know she will sleep more peacefully in her own room in her crib. She had both naps in there yesterday and slept in there last night. But I never realized how often she wakes up lol!! 
She was in bed at 730 then woke at 11, 130, 4, and 530 for a feed. At 530 I just brought her into bed with me and let her stay latched until she woke for the day at 720. I'm used to just rolling over and popping my boob in her mouth so I never realized how bad she was at night lol. 
An hour before bed she eats a purée with pablum mixed in to "fill her up", but this has never worked. She has always woken up between 10 and 11 for a feed. Each feed is about 10 minutes then she's back to sleep.
So my question is how does one go about eliminating some of the night time feeds? My doctor keeps saying she should be down to at least 2 if not none lol, like keep dreaming doc. She does not take a soother and just recently started to take a bottle so I'm wondering if I should offer her a bottle instead of boob at her first feed? I won't do the cry it out ordeal, she was trained using the gentle method so she falls asleep on her own. I haven't tried ignoring her for a bit to see if she goes back to sleep because I'm scared she will have a meltdown! Suggestions? Ideas? What worked for you?

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Give her a few minutes before going in there.  My daughter is 6 months and I hear her through the night but most of the time she's back asleep in 10 min.  If she's still up after 20 min then I know she is hungry.

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My daughter started sleeping through the night at 12 weeks. I've only just started feeding her solids and I give her dinner and a bath and she'll sleep a solid 12 hours if not more x

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My daughter just turned 6 months on the 16th. I put my daughter in her crib I would say about two weeks ago. I decided to put her in her room after she broke out with a heat rash from sleeping in her bassinet. She slept the whole night the first night. However, every night alternates between sleeping all night to waking up one time around 3 to eat but it's all due to how I feed her during the day and how long she takes naps. My daughter eats solids three times a day. Oatmeal for breakfast mixed with applesauce, a 8oz tube a fruit for lunch and a 8oz of vegetables for dinner. She also will have 4 oz bottles in between. She takes at least 2 naps a day for no longer than 30 mins to an hour long. Maybe you should give her more solids during the day which will make he more full and eliminate the nightly feedings. My daughter was the exact same way before I started giving her solids. Waking up multiple times at night and sleeping more in the day time because of the feedings at night. You have to break the old cycle and create a new because your baby is getting older.

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I really think making her wait a few minutes is the way to go, I hear my baby several times throughout the night but he's just stirring at the end of his sleep cycle most of the time. If he actually wants to be fed then he does start rolling around and crying- he mostly sleeps through the night now but occasionally wakes up once if he was too distracted to eat during the day. I give him at least 5 minutes to go back to sleep, occasionally 10 if his eyes are still closed. He has never had a meltdown. If she does start getting upset, you can also try soothing her by just patting her or rubbing her back without feeding her immediately. This also works to settle my LO sometimes if he can't settle himself. He sleeps in the pack n play next to our bed but we want to transition him to his own room soon since the stirring still wakes me up sometimes.

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What gentle method did you use to teach falling asleep on their own? I don't want to do the crying methods either.

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I literally just posted about transitioning my baby from my room to crib in his own room. The difference is that I don't breast feed but I can feel your pain, I can't imagine having to get up that much with my baby as he only gets up once during the night. I don't really have any advice as I am looking some myself but good luck :) you can do this !!

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I'm. dealing with the same thing so iv been going in to her room before I go to bed and sleep feed her a bottle that way she will sleep for a longer strech but I have yet to figure out how not to take her with me at 5 30am  for a feed

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So, my 6 month old was waking up every couple hours and our pediatrician said the same thing, "1-2 at this age." He said at 6 months old to adulthood our brains go from deep to sleep to lighter sleep. Some babies think when they go to a lighter sleep they need to wake all the up. He suggested letting baby figure out how to go back to sleep by letting him fuss for up to 10 minutes. So we tried it, and he literally sleeps through the night now! It took a couple days, and I know you said you don't like crying it out (I was absolutely against it as well) but, he's taught himself how to keep sleeping instead of mommy running in to put him back. Good luck!

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I just put my sons in their cribs a couple weeks ago. Before that they were in rock n plays in our room. The first few nights they woke up a lot more than normal. Normally one never wakes and the other wakes once. What worked for us is to let them fuss for a bit. I don't let them scream or even really full on cry cry but fuss and see what happens. Sometimes they go back to sleep. If that doesn't work I'll go in and try to soothe them. Either rub their back (one sleeps on his stomach) or gently "shhh" them. If it doesn't work I pick them up and try then I feed. Now at times I can tell right away if they are actually hungry so I may only try to pay their back and then just feed depending on what they are doing. After a week the night time wakes slowly started to go down. If your also is feeding that often but gut would say it's more for comfort than food and maybe try the bottle at night? Sorry I don't breastfeed so I can't offer too much advice on that one. I hope some of this helps!

1st Night in Crib - help?

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