Sleep training???

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My son is 5 months and wakes up 3-4 times a night and I’m in first trimester and am not functioning on no sleep. How do I sleep train him???? I was really hoping he would just fall into a sleep schedule on his own :(

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Have you tried getting him on a feeding schedule first? I found that giving my babe bigger feedings spread out at least 3 hours between has helped him sleep longer at night. We still don’t have a full night sleep but we’re getting at least 3-4 hour stretches. I think it’s going to be really hard at first because sometimes you just have to let them cry a bit before they fall asleep but in the long run it works.

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I used Ferber on my baby and he was sleep trained within a few days

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We used save our sleep method, highly recommend. We started at her second nap of the day and She was sleeping through that night. Definitely has to be well rested and on an eating and napping routine before starting. Basically you just pick a time and put baby down ready for sleep at the regular nap time and walk away for the minimum time for their age. My LO lasted 8 mins out of 12. Then less each time, and no night wakes except dreamfeed and 4-5am. The book says to follow their bedding guide and heat the room to 20 degrees Celsius and once I did this she also dropped the 4-5am wake. She went from only napping 30 mins in the day to 2 x 2 hrs, and from 4 wake ups to zero (excluding 1030pm dreamfeed). Also she’s on solids now so she gets heaps of food in the day.

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Check out the book On Becoming Babywise. It has worked like a charm with both of my girls, and most people I know who have used it have seen success as well

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Try just comforting without feeding when he wakes up. Or only give a couple ounces. You can work on gentle training, comfort and put back down, over and over, but I think it’s still too early to consider any kind of CIO method if that’s what you’re thinking. We used a book called the no cry sleep solution for our son between 5-6 months and it worked amazingly for him. We have had to reinforce it a couple times through sleep regressions but he still goes to bed and sleeps amazingly now at almost 2. Planning on doing the same with this little girl in another month or two. She won’t be 5 months till the 23rd.

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