u/Maber1994

I could really use some help. We sleep trained our baby a couple months back and it was very successful. He was sleeping 12 hours straight at night without eating. A couple weeks ago he was teething and so I gave him a little extra comfort (pats on the back in the crib) at night when he would wake up crying. Those teeth and have popped and he is totally back to normal during the day. But now every night he is awake and struggling from 11:30-2:30. After failed pop ins and attempting to pat him back to sleep, I end up needing to rock him for hours to try and get him to go back to sleep. He’s not crying during this, he’s just awake and squirmy. So I figured this meant we need a schedule adjustment. He’s been doing 2.5/3.5/3.75 for a while with naps capped at about 2.5 hours daily. Anyway I’ve been shortening his naps and lengthening his WWs and today he only took 1.5 hours of naps and went to sleep per usual, then he had a false start at the 30 minute mark that turned into a 1 hour ordeal where I needed to rock him completely back to sleep.

So my question is, was I right to assume his sudden split nights are from under tiredness? Or could this actually be over tired? Or maybe something else? He’s going through a separation anxiety phase so maybe that’s at play?

Baby is 7.5 months old and was trained with Ferber around 5 months. The last 5 weeks have been non stop teething and sickness. He’ll still go to sleep independently at night (usually with Motrin for the teething pain) but once he wakes up around 10/11, he will not go back in his crib. I end up rocking him to sleep and attempting to transfer him 3-5 times before he’ll finally stay down. Then he wakes up twice more and it’s the same problem. I’m only getting a few hours of sleep each night for the last month. I’ve been rocking him and comforting him because I know he’s in pain. His top gums have been so swollen and he’s got two white nubs about to break through. But should it really be this hard? Should I expect to take a month off sleep every time he has a tooth come through? I feel like my friends say when they’re babies were teething they just had to get up with them an extra time or two, not sit their rocking them for hours every night.

Schedule is wake at 6:30 3.5/3.5/3.5-4 and capping total naps at 2.5 hours

My 6.5 month old has been sleeping in his crib for day and night sleep for months now. I sleep trained him at 5 months. The last 2 weeks, after he wakes up in the MOTN to eat, I’ll go to lay him back in his crib and he just screams. I’ve tried doing Ferber after putting him back in the crib but last night he cried for 45 minutes until I finally brought him to my bed to cosleep. This has been every night for several weeks now. It’s so strange because he goes down for naps and night sleep in his crib so easily without any fuss. Any advice?

Schedule: wake 6:30, 3/3.5/4, capping naps at 3 hours total. Last feed is 20 minutes before bed at night.

My 6.5 month old has been sleeping in his crib for day and night sleep for months now. I sleep trained him at 5 months. The last 2 weeks, after he wakes up in the MOTN to eat, I’ll go to lay him back in his crib and he just screams. I’ve tried doing Ferber after putting him back in the crib but last night he cried for 45 minutes until I finally brought him to my bed to cosleep. This has been every night for several weeks now. It’s so strange because he goes down for naps and night sleep in his crib so easily without any fuss. Any advice?

Schedule: wake 6:30, 3/3.5/4, capping naps at 3 hours total. Last feed is 20 minutes before bed at night.

My 6 month old loves going out and doing things (aka he fusses non stop when we’re chilling at home). I want to take him out during his last wake window of the day since that’s after work for me and it’s his longest wake but he cannot help but fall asleep if we’re in the car more than like 4 minutes. I’d he does nod off during that last window, it ruins our entire night. Will this be a struggle forever?

Ugh I’m sad to be back here asking for help again but I’m desperate 🫩 I sleep trained my baby at 5 months using the TCB Ferber method and it was initially very successful. After about 4 weeks I started nursing him when he would wake crying because at that point I knew he knew how to go back to sleep and it was infrequent that he would wake up crying. I was nursing him at 12am and 4am all through sleep training and beyond.

Now at 6.5 months, he is going to sleep just fine with no crying but wakes up every night around 11pm just screaming and so upset. Pop ins do not help. He’s not even hungry at that point either. When I go to hold him he’ll easily settle back to sleep but the second I try to set him in the crib he just wails again. Could this be a schedule issue or do I need to re sleep train?

Wake goal is 6:30am but sometimes he’s up at 6am. 2.5/2.75/2.75/3. I cap his first nap at 1.5 hours and then his next two are naturally 33 minutes. Bed between 7 and 7:30pm.

We recently sleep trained with Ferber and I’d say it has been a success. However, his daytime sleep has gone to hell. He’s about to turn 6 months this weekend and he’s taking three 25 minute naps a day which just doesn’t seem like enough. WW are usually 2.5/2.5/3/3. Wake up at 6:30 and bed around 7pm. Do we need to adjust anything?

Other info: He does all nap sleep in the crib. We use a paci for naps but not at night time. He used to only do 33 minute naps for months, then started consolidating and was doing hour long naps, then after ST is doing 25 minute naps. He wakes from each nap happy but is grumpy and sleepy again by the 1.5 hour mark of each wake window.

Just want to share our success story in case it helps anyone! I recently sleep trained my 5.5 month old using the Taking Cara Babies ABC approach (basically Ferber). The first week had a lot of ups and downs and there were so many points that I wanted to cave and just go rock him and hold him. He was the type of baby to cry for 30 minutes every night as I rocked and nursed him to sleep and would wake 8-10 times a night crying. All in all, he cried a lot prior to sleep training.

Now that we sleep trained, he actually smiles up at me and shrieks with delight every night when I set him fully awake in his crib. It’s like he’s excited to go to sleep! It’s the sweetest thing. I can tell he’s all around just a happier, more confident baby. And he sleeps straight through the night now. It was so hard to choose to sleep train- I felt judged by so many. But I feel we traded a few nights of increased crying for months/years of a happy little sleeper.

Baby is 5.5 months and we recent adjusted from 4 naps to 3 because he was starting to refuse the 4th nap every day and it was pushing his bed time past 8pm every night. So we switched to 3 doing 2/2.5/2.5/3. This will be our 4th night of sleep training doing Ferber and even though he’s sleeping 11 hours at night (minus feedings and wakes to cry) and sleeping 3 hours during the day, he just seems exhausted all the time. Like so fussy and rubbing his eyes constantly after the 2 hour mark for each of his wake windows today. By the time we got to bed time tonight, he wouldn’t even drink his normal night bottle because he was so sleepy. Poor thing. Is it possible I’m making him too over tired with this new nap schedule and that could hinder our success with sleep training? Thinking of switching back to 4 naps.

I have a 5.5 month old and we’re doing the ABCs sleep training right now. Prior to starting sleep training, I was nursing my little guy back to sleep 3-4 times a night. Since starting the ABCs, we’re doing an 11pm dream feed and a 4am feed that I started at 12 minutes and have been cutting back 2-3 minutes each night. Last night I did only 6 minutes for his 4am feed. Is it really worth going in there and interrupting his sleep tonight just to nurse him for 4 minutes? I feel like that may just upset him lol