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my 5 month old baby has been cosleeping with me after the first stretch of the night for like 2 months now. i’ve tried ferber, check ins made it worse, 333, same thing the second he saw my face his crying only intensified. PUPD doesn’t work. i feel like all im left with is CIO. hearing him cry makes me so sad and anxious but i am desperate for him to sleep better. our schedule rn is:
2h15m/2h35m/2h35m/2h45m. but trying to get to 2.5/2.5/2.5/2.75. so just over 10 hours of wake time. i nap rescue 1st nap of the day to be over an hour, other 2 naps are 20-30 minutes if that. so maybe 2-2.5 daytime sleep. last feed starts 45 minutes before bedtime.

i just need to know realistically what CIO will look like? do you let them cry after bedtime during MOTN feeds? is it okay to put headphones in?? i feel like a bad mom but i am desperate. when i tried 333, he cried nonstop until i held him for over an hour.

i am planning on sleep training next week, and as of rn my LO is glued to his binky to fall asleep. should i go cold turkey at the same time as ferber? or would that make things harder.

my LO is about to be 5 months and i cannot get him to self soothe in his own crib. he will self soothe in the car seat, my bed and in my arms but not in the crib. i feel like me cosleeping is making him fall behind by not being able to self soothe. i feel like i will never be able to sleep train.

i have an almost 5 month old and was exclusively pumping for 4.5 months, but needed a mental break so we started combo feeding (soy based) because we suspect that LO has a dairy sensitivity making him super super fussy (waiting on our GI appointment). i want to fully switch to formula while i’m weaning and build up a. freezer stash so i can extend the combo feedings a little bit longer.

my husband says we can’t afford to switch to formula bc i’m not working rn but i disagree. so im just looking to see what kind of formula you guys buy, how often you run out, and estimated cost per month? just to see if i can convince him to start the switch!!

recently got my 4.5 month old on a more solid nap schedule 2.25/2.5/2.5/3 and his sleeping has only gotten worse. he’s waking up 20 minutes after bedtime, and won’t go down in the crib. cosleeping is trash now, he’s constantly waking up and crying, refusing to eat. i’m at a loss tbh. i thought a better schedule would improve night sleep. any one else gone though this? and when does it get better?

so some context, my LO is almost 5 months old. I hav ever dairy out of my diet for almost 3 months now. LO has had major constipation issues that have stumped and concerned our pediatrician. he wasn’t pooping for 15 days at a time, then we were cleared to use a glycerine suppository, and then another 15 days. now he’s on lactulose if he doesn’t poop for 3-5 days. about a month ago, the pediatrician also told me to cut soy out of my diet. not because he thinks he has an allergy/intolerance, but to rule everything out before we get to GI. well my supply started dropping so we decided to start on formula like once a day to supplement my lack of milk. we didn’t think he had a soy allergy or intolerance, but we do think he’s sensitive to milk, so we went with a non dairy formula. now fast forward like 2 weeks, my baby is so fussy and cranky, screaming and yelling at me 24/7 and idk what to do. now i think he’s got a soy issue, so now i’m back to no soy in my diet.

i want to stop pumping altogether. it’s just such high demand on me to pump consistently, on a diet where i feel like i can’t eat hardly anything, and deal with a screaming baby all day alone. but my husband thinks getting into formula would be way out of our price range right now. i’ve heard people getting formula covered by insurance, but idk how that works and we can’t get into GI for another month and a half. WHAT DO I DO??

in the trailer, we see the fromville residents having. funeral when the crows show up. did anyone notice that there is two caskets? and if you scan the group of people, jade is the only main character that is not present?? i think the monsters are going to get jade as more punishment towards tabitha and to get the further from the truth. “knowledge comes at a cost” wasn’t to punish him for looking for answers. it was a punishment for tabitha because she’s getting closer than anyone has before.

my LO is 4.5 months old and a horrible sleeper, unless he’s held or in my bed. and even then, he doesn’t get good sleep. we’ve started to try some of the gentle sleep training methods, but they don’t work on him. and so we moved to ferber, and he cried for over an hour, checks only made it worse, and he never fell asleep. the days after that, his crying and overall mood were so shitty, i don’t think ferber would work on him. (also we’re in an apartment complex, so the constant crying is a pressure point bc our neighbors can hear him pretty well.)

i was on a 3 nap schedule, but we just traveled and that got completely ruined. we were on 1.45/2/2.15/2.5 bed time at around 8 depending on when the day started. during the day i am nap rescuing bc he only sleeps for 20-30 minutes at a time. and i’ve heard that this is just a phase, but it’s been 2 months of these kind of naps and it’s taking a toll on him and i. overnight he wakes up once before i’m in bed and then twice overnight and then his morning wake up time. i am exhausted, i don’t have help bc my husband works, and idk if i have the mental capacity to sleep train alone. he goes to bed starting in his crib(barely), and then when he wakes up to eat, i cannot for the life of me get him back into the crib. he just stirs and wakes himself up fully.

so my question is, is it easier to focus on a structured daytime schedule and let him mature and sleep more overnight the older he gets, or is it easier to sleep train and have an unhappy baby?

i am so exhausted. all i want is for him to sleep in his own crib, so i can just feed him when he’s hungry and then he can go back to sleep on his own. he dream feeds mostly at night, but that 4am feed he is always wide awake.

also noting: he outgrew the bassinet, so we’ve been putting him in the crib. but throwing around the idea of getting a pack and play for our room again instead of the crib. idk if yall have sleep trained in the same room, but i would love advice