Sleep training

[KJLee]

Hi everyone,

I’m coming up to the end of a week of sleep training my 8.5 month old. The first couple of nights started really well, down at 7/7:30pm, I’d give him a dream feed at 10:30pm and then he’d wake at 2:30am for another feed. A vast improvement to him waking every 1.5 hours. I will look at eventually phasing out the night feeds once his sleep is established.

The last few nights he’s been a bit restless. From 11pm/12am onwards he’ll wake up frequently. We adopt the training method and leave him to see if he’ll settle himself, which he does after around 10 mins (horray!) but won’t stay asleep for very long, anything from 10mins to an hour. I can’t quite figure out why this has started happening, does anyone have any suggestions? We’re really consistent with our approach and he’s getting enough sleep during the day.

Any tips or advice would be gratefully received!

Thank you,

A tired mumma xx

[Noobs]

I have no advice to offer unfortunately as my lb has been a nightmare sleeping from 5 months until recently. There are sleep regressions which seemingly affect sleep so it may be that🤷‍♀️. It’s great that your lb can self settle though😀x

[Annh17]

I can’t really help, as our little girl stopped night feeds at 6 weeks and slept through from 11-6 then aswell.

But when she was on 3 meals a day, she would have her last bottle at 7/7.30pm and then we would put her too bed. We would also go to see her when she started crying, but from then we stopped. It was so hard listening to her cry, we would leave her for 10 minutes too see if she would settle, the 1st night she took 50 mins to go sleep, 2nd night 30mins, 3rd night 10mins and that was it. She would just go to sleep.

I hope you get into some sort of routine, it is very hard, he may be going through a sleep regression x

[Seb9]

There is a sleep regression at 8 months, which could be the cause.