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Around this time they go from being able to transition really easily through sleep cycles to being more like us and needing to learn how to fall asleep. We did sleep training at 5 months because for us it got to the point where he was up every hour and I was dangerously sleep deprived. He would still go through regressions but he knows how to put himself to sleep. Teething was the biggest disruption after we taught him to settle. When he’s not teething he sleeps through the night - when he is he’s up 2-4 times so not too bad. Up to you how you handle it but pick a method that doesn’t have any sleep associations (like nursing to sleep or dummy if they can’t put it in themselves) and stick to your guns! We took the dummy away but now he has it again because he can put it back in without us if he wakes Good luck!
UGH 😣😴 plz help!
My LO is almost four months old and USED to sleep 6-7 hours through the night, but now for the last month or so he’s only been sleeping about four hours (most times about 10:30 to 2) then every hour and a half until 8 or 9 am. If I try to shush him back to sleep with his pacifier, it only works for about an hour or two. Are there any tips/tricks to getting your baby to stay asleep through the night??? We’ve tried bedtime routine, noise machine, lullabies...I am desperate. 😩 He used to sleep so good, but he hasn’t slept more than four and a half hours in almost two months. 😭
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Most babies feed for comfort during the night. And if you have to put his dummy in then it’s a sleep association because he needs it to sleep and can’t do it on his own. It’s hard but removing those associations means that you can sleep and so can baby independently. For us personally we used the Ferber method of sleep training. Within 3 nights he was sleeping SO much better and I just decided on a set time frame I wouldn’t feed for. So if he slept 5 hours without a feed but then woke up I’d feed him and so on. He’s now sleeping through the night with no feeds at all and transitioned to that naturally because the basics of getting himself back to sleep we taught him so long ago
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I didn’t think he was that reliant on his pacifier, but since he is co-sleeping (same room, but in a crib) right now I feel like it’s easy for me to get up and just put it back in. We’re moving in a month and his room will be across the house from us, so I’m worried about how his sleep schedule will change. I also don’t really know how often he actually needs to feed at night. Sometimes it’s every time he wakes up, other times he can go up to 6 hours without. I’ve also thought about calling our dr for advice.
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