Going to start sleep training
Hello, we are planning to start sleep training our little girl right around 4 months.
She’s about a week away, and wanted to maybe get some tips or advice!
Currently she naps around 3-4 hours a day, with wake times around 1.5-2 hours usually a little before two hours, rocked until sleep , put in crib and wakes up around after 30-40 mins and then finish it off with contact napping!
At night we aim for 7-8 o clock bed time, as she wakes up around 6:30-7am.
Only problem is for bed time, she would fall asleep rocked but would wake up crying as soon as she hits the crib, for about a good 1-2 hours of doing rocking to sleep then trying to lay her down. Is this normal? She’s in the 99 percentile for weight and it’s starting to wear my wife’s body!
I guess, this post is just to get some affirmation about how we should start, possibly just skip the rocking stage and put her straight in bed and let her cry it out? We plan on starting straight cio without check ins as she gets more hysterical if we try to soothe her.
Also, she wakes up about 3 hours into her first good sleep for a feed around 10-11ish and then goes back to sleep rocked and usually sleeps good, some days 3 hours feeds and wakes up at 7, sometimes she would skip the 2 o clock feed wake up at 4-5 feed and go back to sleep till 7.
We checked our nanit and when she wakes up she usually goes onto her stomach and falls back asleep without us having to rock.