Hi! We started SS program on last Friday- we are on 5th day today- and she is sleeping much better and but there are couple issues going on which I would appreciate your help.

1) How are you dealing with night wakes? Do you feed during the night?

My baby woke up couple times at first night but didn’t cry more than 5 mins each but I fed her around 2 am. And on 2nd and 3rd nights I dream-fed her around same time. She didn’t wake up. We especially her father didn’t feel comfortable with her being hungry for 10 hours. Yesterday we had dr appointment and she said it is absolutely fine for a 6 month old baby to sleep 12 hours w/o feeding and recommended not to dream feed because it conflicts with sleep training. So last night we decidedly to wait and see if she will wake up or not. She went to bed at 6:40 and woke up at midnight. I waited for 40 mins and she didn’t go back to sleep. She cried couple times for about couple minutes but didn’t sleep either. I saw her sucking her fist so I fed her and put her back in crib when she was still awake. She slept 5 mins after that until 6am. So I am confused about what should I do.

2) Feeding to sleep..?

I know it is a sleep prob but some days she just falls a sleep on breast and doesn’t wake up and no matter what I do I can’t keep her up. The 1st day when we couldn’t soothe her during an hour of crying, I gave in and gave her breast and she fell asleep after 5 mins I put her down drowsy. 2nd and 3rd nights she slept on her own after 10- 15 mins crying but last night again she fell a sleep while feeding. Like I said above, at night wake she waited for feed again to get drowsy.

3) Bed time?

She used to sleep around 8ish. She takes 3 naps in a normal day gets total of 3,5-4 hours sleep. But her last nap is around 3:30pm and waiting until 8:30pm was a pain for all of us. So both dr and SS book recommend early bed time so we pulled it around 6:30-7pm and except last night she seemed to fight it too. But again when it was around 8pm she was crying anyway due to over tiredness and I couldn’t squeeze another nap somewhere btwn 6-7...

So I think these 3 issues are intersects and I really need to hear your experiences on similar issues. Thanks much!