Sleep training?

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Has anyone done sleep training? Especially to cut night feeds?
My girl is 6 months, EBF, goes to bed around 6-630. She wakes every 3-4 hours for feeds. 
I know she really doesn't need the feeds and that they're probably more of a comfort thing now. Shes able to fall asleep on her own in her cot if she's relaxed enough. But when she wakes up during the night she just cries until we pick her up. Any Advice on what I can do?
I desperately need my sleep back, I know 3-4 hours is good compared to some babies but I don't deal well with broken sleep 😭

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I had my second baby in Germany and here everyone has a midwife who talks you through all the aspects of caring for your baby, and she said something I was quite surprised to hear given that I had my first baby in the U.S. She said by the age of 6 months babies don’t need nutrition in the night anymore, so if it wakes up, just feed some water from a bottle. Ideally the dad should do this. That way they learn that waking up in the night won’t get them milk and apparently they will soon stop to request it. 
I have not tried this yet, in part because my son isn’t quite 6 months yet, but also because I’m a bit insecure about giving water seeing how my American doctors always said not to. On the other hand, I get the logic that if you take the “fun” out of waking up in the night, it probably helps. And my midwife has literally taken care of thousands of babies. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Was just going to post something similar! My little one is almost 6 months and exclusively breast-fed. She fights sleep so hard to matter what time of the day. It’s always a struggle to get her down for a nap or bedtime. 
We try to get her to bed around 8-9PM and she’s up every two hours on the nose to eat, I don’t know if she really needs it or not. But mixed in with that she’s also up almost every hour crying because the pacifier falls out of her mouth. I’m beyond exhausted at this point, my husband sleeps through the whole thing 🤪
Since I wake up to every little sound I was thinking of transitioning her to put on the room. I’d still get up to feed her but maybe she’d start to find the pacifier or her thumb in between since I wouldn’t be so quick to jump up and fix it for her.
But I don’t know that that will solve the problem either and it kind of gives me anxiety making her sleep by herself. I know she’s old enough to be in her own room but she still just a tiny baby and it makes me sad thinking she’s in a room by herself all night. Plus then I have to walk down the hallway to tend to her which might make it harder for me to go back to sleep altogether. Not really sure what to do at this point. 😩

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We did the Ferber method at 5 months. I think before starting sleep training there are a few things you should be doing to ensure Baby continues to have good sleep. 
1. A solid routine for both naps and bedtime.
2. An EASY routine: eat, awake, sleep (to break any sleep association with nursing)
3. White noise and dark room
We started these things at 3 months old, so once we got to the 4 month sleep regression, we only went from one night feeding to two, then back to one after 2 hard weeks. 
Once we sleep trained, she would go down at 7 and wake up at 5, eat, then back to sleep until 7. She did that for about 2 weeks, and now she’s been sleeping 7-7 for 2 weeks. 
She’ll be 6 months on Sunday. Starting solids on Saturday.

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I had to make a lot of changes to get my kiddo to stop waking up every 2-3 hours. I ended up using some Ferber methods with him as well. I also talked to Dr. Katie Penry (afriendlyaffair.com) and her advice really helped us a ton. She does free 10 minute consults,  have your questions ready!

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We’re just doing some sleep training at the moment. My little boy has been waking around every 2 hours since he was 16 weeks (so two months of this) and had also developed an association between feeding and sleeping. He also wouldn’t go to bed for anyone other than me if I was out for any reason (would refuse his milk and cry for an hour until he ended up exhausted) He is Breast fed although we have now started solids alongside. He is in his own room and has been for a while.
We have started using the Ferber method to address both issues of self settling and night feeding. I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but we had tried more gentle training methods to no avail. After two nights (that weren’t particularly fun or easy) he is now completely self settling for all naps and bedtime. He is still waking 3 or 4 times a night but last night I only needed to feed him twice, the other time he went back to sleep on his own. The Ferber approach to night weaning wasn’t working to start with as he wouldn’t settle on his own so I started reducing the length of time I’m feeding him for to soothe him but avoid him falling asleep on my boobs and undoing all our hard work. I read about this approach on the Precious Little Sleep website. We’ll see how the night weaning goes - I’m happy to keep one feed a night if he needs it. It feels like a long time to go with no food and he has never slept through in his life yet.

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I’m going through the same thing, LO is even waking up during the night and talking. I am not getting that much sleep and what brings me comfort is that he will grow out of this stage.  I need help 😩

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I recommend reading “the baby sleep solution” or formerly known as 12 hours by 12 weeks. She has a section on how to sleeptrain at that age. I also recommend using her techniques and adapting to ur baby and what you are comfortable with. It worked wonders for us!!

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