This data is two weeks after night weaning/sleep training my 8m. Last Monday I thought I'd just give her one feed to help her finish her sleep, and then it immediately started creeping earlier into the night. How can I help her get back to sleep without reintroducing the association?
She ate:
None of the sweet potato with hemp hearts (just squished it with a fairly unimpressed look).
Half ish of the apple - seemed great for soothing her first tooth coming in.
None of the Greek yogurt/spinach puree (still had fun playing in it though).
A bit of the blueberry (new food for the day, didn't love it).
The dog happily accepted all the scraps so yay for no food waste!
My 8m old was consistently nursing every 1-3 hours overnight since birth. About a month ago I started weaning just at night and it helped her sleep long stretches for the first time! She's able to get back to sleep without nursing reliably before 4 am. Reasonably, at that point she struggles if she wakes. She has already had a lot of rest and is probably actually hungry.
Do you think I could continue to feed her at these early morning wakes without encouraging her to wake more often to feed throughout the night again?
My top 3:
Babies can't soothe themselves. No matter how you get your baby to sleep, you're training them. You're teaching them to accept some soothing (nursing, rocking, paci, whatever) anyway, why not teach them to accept their own soothing? I love watching my baby suck her thumb, rub her head, and wiggle around.
We're the only mammals to sleep away from our babies... Ok we're also the only mammals to do taxes but you still do them don't ya.
Lastly, crying is bad. My baby cries at a lot of new things. She cried when I introduced solids. Getting her vaccines. In a new stroller. When I take away something she can't eat. Babies are allowed to cry when they learn new things. I hate learning new things too.
What arguments have you seen or heard to try and convince people not to sleep train?!
All the running playlists I've found are too fast so I end up running to the beat and burning out quickly. Just getting back into running 8m post partum and very sleep deprived. I want to keep running but I don't want to push myself too hard because recovery is tough on minimal fragmented sleep.
Does anyone have a solid playlist that's upbeat but still slow?
I've been wary of sleep consultants since it's not a regulated profession, but this Toronto company employed social workers, which is regulated and covered by insurance. Has anyone used them before?