What to do during night wakes?
Baby is just over 8 months. Wake windows are 2.5-3/3.5/4.
I’m currently doing my own modified version of Ferber, baby is in a sidecar crib, so I lay on my bed beside the crib and if she gets worked up to the level of scream crying, I pat her bum to calm her down to just regular crying then stop patting. Usually after about 15 mins she falls asleep. The issue is that she’s used to me bringing her into bed and nursing back to sleep later in the night. After about 11pm she won’t go back to sleep with just patting in the crib. I don’t know what to do with night wakes now to support the sleep training since nothing I do gets her to settle in her crib. Do I stop nursing but still cosleep for the second half of the night? I do offer a bottle around 12-1 to make sure she’s not hungry. She’s eating 2-3 meals of solids a day and doesn’t even finish the bottle at night so I don’t think hunger is an issue. I just don’t know what to do with the night wakes.