u/Hellylp

We just started sleep training our five month old two days ago and as he is a Velcro baby, we thought it was gonna do awful and he was gonna scream all night.

The first night he cried for about 30 minutes, then woke up once during the night. My husband did like 2 check ins and he went back to sleep and didn’t wake up till 5:30 in the morning. I feel like first day that’s amazing! The second night he fell asleep within 7 minutes and didn’t wake up until 4:30 am!

So we are putting him to bed at 7:30 and before sleep training he almost always woke up at 3 am to eat and then woke up at 5:30 am. Well he didn’t wake up crying around that time either night so we just fed him once he woke. My question is do I feed him at 4:30 tho and then just let him cio and him hopefully go to sleep again until 6 or or I start our day? I know if I keep feeding him at 4:30 he will think that that’s about the time that he will eat every morning but he was really hungry and didn’t know if I was supposed to ignore that. Also, since we are supposed to keep them up for 15 minutes after eating to see if they’re gonna spit up, do you just hold them in your lap, cuddle them, I’m assuming you shouldn’t give them a toy or anything as they would think it’s time to get up or how do you navigate that since you can’t let them fall asleep in your lap before you put them down with Faber method or does it matter in the middle of the night?

So our baby is 5 months old and only slept in his bassinet for like a month and then went through some hard times with colic and he was always crying, it was awful. So because of that he has been sleeping on our chest only since then. I have to sleep at night with him in my chest because that is the only way I will get any sleep. He is starting to get way too heavy and my back is about to give out. I don’t want to actually co sleep in the bed, I’ve tried and it gives me too much anxiety. He is attached to us like crazy. He will be put down to play some but other than that doesn’t want to be put down for very long so me and my husband can’t eat dinner together, can’t really ever hang out , or anything.

His routine right now is he plays for about an hour to an hour and a half, eats then goes to sleep. It’s not always like that because he’s teething bad so he fights his sleep like crazy and has to be rocked and put to sleep. Like today he’s fought me so bad he hasn’t slept in a long time. He goes to sleep usually around 7-8 pm and is pretty good about staying asleep until 5:30 am or wakes around 3 am eats and then goes back to bed until 5:30 am ish but only if he’s on someone’s chest.
So I’ve been looking into the Ferber method and I had some questions. If there is a blog or anything explaining all the answers then I would love it!

I see the schedule you follow for Ferber but what if my baby ALWAYS falls asleep on the bottle at night. And then he almost always flips to his stomach when playing or mad but doesn’t flip back to his back very often at all.

So because of all this my questions are:

When he falls asleep on the bottle do I just wake him up and play with him or something before putting him in the crib? I know I need a routine for him but I assume he’s gonna get mad and overtired that I woke him.

When I go in for the check ins and since I’m not supposed to pick him up, do I flip him back on his back or just let him fall asleep on his belly but I know he’s gonna get mad that he’s on his belly for too long but I know he’s gonna always flip back.

Do I still let him take any amount of naps? Is there a schedule for that?

Do I still pick him up and feed him around 3 am since that’s when he usually wakes for his one feeding at night if he’s crying ?

Any help is appreciated as I’m desperate 😭

As someone who loves Disney and plays DDV like crazy, I wanted to start collecting Lorcana cards & learn to actually play.

But I don’t have limitless amount of money to spend on packs and such. Is there people who just collect and keep cards of characters they like, cards they think are pretty, or are good in gameplay?

I didn’t know if I should just keep every card I get because why not or fill up a binder with cards I like. My husband said he would start playing to so I had someone to play with as he would prolly be only person I trade with also. And what do shy people do with duplicates? 😅

I see people buy the princess binder and fill it with princess cards but is that a specific set or they just fill it with all princess cards they can find?

Just from looking at the cards, I like the Winterspell set as I love Christmas so I think maybe after getting a beginners set to teach me how to play I start there.

I’ve never collected cards so I don’t even know how to do it casually 🤣 I know it’s not this complicated but thought I would see how some other casual players collect :)