Has anyone done a floor bed a laid with their baby to fall asleep as a way of “sleep training”?
For reference my 9mo old co-sleeps and nurses all night long. We are weaning. We expect a lot of crying and frustration but wondering if has worked for anyone?
Has anyone done a floor bed a laid with their baby to fall asleep as a way of “sleep training”?
For reference my 9mo old co-sleeps and nurses all night long. We expect a lot of crying and frustration but wondering if has worked for anyone?
I am a FTM. My daughter is 9 months old. She has refused bottles since birth. We have tried all kinds of bottles, different people feeding her, formula, breast milk. She hates them. So I have exclusively breastfed on demand.
I am going to back to work in 2 months and she will be starting daycare. We are ready to wean for so many reasons and one of the biggest ones is her sleep. She cannot sleep unless she has a boob in her mouth, and so unfortunately weaning and sleep go hand in hand for her.
She has always been a snacker with BF. She has always preferred to eat for short amounts of time every 1-2 hours. She does eat solids but is still very much in food is fun stage and isn’t consuming that much. I have high lipase milk so we have to wean to formula because it doesn’t store well despite what we try.
So the problems: she has started drinking out a bottle somewhat sometimes. If she drinks 2oz that is a huge success. She drinks out of straw cups well, but the second she realizes it isn’t water and its formula she starts spitting it out. Same with an open cup, and I do NOT think an open cup will be the way right now because she chokes on it and spills and everything. I know a lot of weaning recommendations are to gradually decrease by replacing one feed a day with a bottle every few days. But my girl… she is stubborn. I almost feel like it has to be cold turkey with her because if she knows she can nurse at all, she’ll hold out.
My questions: Can I quit cold turkey - Has this worked for any of you? Should I keep offering bottles or straw and she’ll eventually start drinking it?
I have been told by my mom that my pediatrician when I was a baby said “they won’t starve themselves, so just do it and she will eat when she’s hungry”. I am inclined to agree with this but don’t know if it is outdated advice. I am so worried about her getting dehydrated in the days of protest while we are switching.
Any advice??? Thanks in advance.
*our pediatrician has given the go ahead to night wean. She has been gaining weight very well. Her 9 month check up is tomorrow so I will be asking the doctor. I am truly looking for advice and thoughts that I can take the doctor and see what she thinks/recommends because she often doesn’t have very helpful recommendations.
My daughter is freshly 9 months old. She sleeps in bed with us and I am a human pacifier. She also exclusively contact naps unless in the car. We have tried and failed sleep training (modified Ferber) twice. Once at 5.5 months and again at 8 months. My husband and I quite literally cannot do the Ferber or CIO again (no judgement to anyone, we just personally can’t handle it again).
She has always been a sensitive sleeper and hates going to sleep (cries before pretty much every nap and bedtime unless nursing). The biggest problem with her sleep is that she wakes up at most of her 30 minute sleep cycles.
I am going back to work when she is 11 months and I am a veterinarian so my schedule is ALL over the place including working nights so we have to get this figured out.
THE NEW PLAN: Since she is so attached to nursing… My husband is the plan. I am going to make a big show of “leaving the house” so she knows the boobs are not an option, then he will take her upstairs and do the entire night time routine without me and give a bottle and put her to sleep. He is going to attempt putting her in the crib and then do ALL the night wakings. She will cry for hours until she gets to nurse (won’t take a bottle overnight) but we have to do something and at least this way she is not crying alone. I am basically not involved until 6am. I feel so dang guilty about it, but I think it is the only way we can move forward.
Basically wondering if anyone else has done this and has it worked on your baby that all else failed?
Thanks!