am I the only one?!

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I feel like I am the only one STILL struggling with my baby who is not sleeping through the night. My baby wakes up like 5-10 times a night; sometimes to eat, sometimes it's just for a cuddle. His crib is in our room (not by choice) and we can't let him cry it out because we are currently with family but I will have the house for a week. I am planning on doing some sleep training by letting him CIO. My question is should I be in the room while he CIO or should I just sleep on the couch for a week? I don't want to have him trained and then starting to wake up because I am in the room again. My husband is currently sleeping in the living room because baby is waking up too much and he has work. Any advice or suggestions?

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My daughter still wakes up twice a night, will eat like 5oz and go right back to sleep. I talked to her doctor and he said to start just letting her CIO because she's not hungry it's just what has become routine. He said it usually takes around a week. I haven't started simply bc it's easier for me to just get up those ten mins and she's back to sleep. If I let her CIO I'll be up with her bc I can't sleep while she crys haha.

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My boyfriend and I were in a similar position 2 months ago. Went to the doctor and she highly recommended sleep training but said it's best if we don't sleep in the bedroom during the training period. So for 2-3 weeks we moved our mattress to our living room and just camped out there every night lol but honestly, my daughter goes to bed at 630pm (no fuss) and sleeps until 630am. We just recently put our mattress back but only once I was sure she had learned to sooth herself and fall asleep. Now she doesn't even wake up when we go in the room to go to bed. She goes to sleep the exact same way for naps too. No help, no fuss, I just put her down with her pacifier, put her blanket ontop her, tell her I love her and walk out. On the occasion she does fuss, I just leave her be. Eventually she settles down and false asleep.

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My 9.5 month old has never slept. He was awake about 10-12 times a night up until the end of January and then suddenly he slept for longer periods and he only wakes about 2-4 times a night now. But if he's sick of teething he would wake more often. We give him one bottle during the night and it seems to help him a little bit and also we give him his soother too to settle him back. Not easy going though. I know exactly how ye are feeling x

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My little one doesn't/ won't take a pacifier either. I got to the end of my tether with the being up sometimes every 40 mins to an a hour. I'm bf so he literally was using me as his pacifier. Anyway, I decided enough was enough. The key was for us not to be in the room together (because every shuffle etc didn't wake us both up and it was easier to see work out if he truely needed me) and to put him down awake. I put him in his cot, used the euan the sheep (we use the heart beat setting) anyway then I patted him until he give up and went to sleep. He did cry for a total of 30/40 mins the first night, but I was in the room with him so whilst he was crying I knew he wasn't truely distressed if that makes sense. Literally that first night he slept 8 hrs before he woke up which was at 3am. I fed him and put him back and he then slept until 7. Anyway the next night it only took 10mins for him to settle and the following night 5 mins and then he just settled straight away after that. Like most of the other ladies he regresses slightly if he's sick or teething but I just stick to my guns with him so he doesn't start the above again. Anyway, he now sleeps usually 6/630pm straight through to 630/730am as a rule. I also find the better he sleeps in the day the better night we have that is definitely key, if he doesn't sleep enough during the day he wakes up in the night xx

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My son just started waking up every half hour to hour. I'm losing my mind.

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Watch out for the 9 month sleep regression... My son always woke up 10 to 20 times a night. I taught him that his dummy is fastened to a chain and now he puts back his own paci. He wakes up once now for a feed... He takes 2 naps a day totalling 2.5 hours... And his wake time before bed is about 4 - 5 hour stretch (not by my choice but his). I give lots of cuddles before he goes to sleep (started this recently and it seems to help). The only time he wakes up more than once is when a tooth erupts...

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Look up the Ferber method online. My daughter has always been a terrible sleeper. She would nap twice a day for 15-20 minutes and would only fall asleep while nursing or in her stroller. We've been sleep training with a modification of the Ferber method for one week now and she can fall asleep in her crib and has napped as long as 1.5 hours. 
Her sleep is definitely NOT consistent and I'm super exhausted, but I feel like we are finally making PROGRESS and that there's an end to our sleepless nights eventually. She seems so much happier when she's awake after she's slept longer in her crib.
I have really struggled with this and I feel for you. Just know that it WILL get easier.

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We have never had a problem with our son sleeping through the night...he was about 3 months when he started sleeping through the night. If he wakes up we just wait to see if he will lay back down or stay up. Normally he will lay back down and sleep. If not we change him give him a small bottle and leave him in his room. When he got older I would wait about 15 minutes to let him cry and then go get him. It slowly started to go down and now in about 5 minutes he'll be asleep. I would try the cry it out method. I wouldn't stay in the room, cause if they can see you or know you're in the room they won't stop crying

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We did the modified "cry it out" method with our daughter because she was waking up 4-5 times a night and it was taking us 2 hours to get her to sleep. We just started putting her to bed awake as soon as she knew how to put her pacifier back in her mouth. It took about a week for her to get to not crying at all. I think it'll be easier for everyone if you sleep outside of the room for a week. At least our daughter would stop crying as soon as I was in the room and cry as soon as I left. They are smart little buggers. Lol. This was recommended by our pediatrician which, is why we tried it and it's been a life saver.

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