You should know that you can be in the room with your baby and – HERE’S THE BIGGEST SECRET. So I understand your anxiety about letting your baby cry at all. ![]() In this photo he is “leaning out” at 8 months by being more physical, and not using the boob as a soother anymore. By the time he was 4 months he weighed 20 lbs! Lol I answered his every cry with nursing him back to sleep. When I had my son, I was totally against letting my child cry at all. It is really a 24 hour all day approach to set your baby up for success. Sleep teaching is NOT just about bedtime. There are a variety of styles and any style you use can work as long as you are 100% committed to following it through. Sleep training does NOT mean closing the door and having her cry herself to sleep. You can read more about different types of sleep training methods on this blog Sleep Training Techniques Defined. So your baby can learn to relax without help and become a well-rested, happy independent sleeper. You look at your baby, you see the bags under her eyes and realize that she’s not well rested, then its time to do some sleep training or sleep teaching as I like to call it. When you are ready, meaning when you are so tired and exhausted that you have that moment where you think “I cannot go on like this”. So if your formula fed baby is using the bottle as a sleep crutch, she’s not going to sleep through the night any sooner than a breastfed baby. It is very common that I hear from a Mom who will nurse to sleep at bedtime, but then at the night waking bring her baby into bed with her and the physical contact will relax baby down into sleep. Sometimes kids have multiple sleep crutches. Often this sleep crutch is nursing back to sleep, but it could also be sucking from a bottle, a pacifier, being held, or sleeping on someone. When an adult surfaces at night, we might reposition ourselves, check the clock and relax back down into the next sleep cycle, but your baby who needs help falling asleep at bedtime will cry out for the same help that she had falling asleep. ![]() REASON #3: THE REAL REASON: She’s got a sleep crutchĪll of us humans, babies, toddlers, kids and adults, surface from sleep at night between sleep cycles. The signs of being overtired include: taking a long time to fall asleep, trouble staying asleep, frequent night wakings, early wake ups and fussiness during the day. All babies need 11-12 hours of total overnight sleep. All of that ends up cutting into her night time sleep. This can manifest in frequent night wakings, and early morning wake ups. When children are being kept awake too long between naps or before bed time, it becomes harder for them to fall asleep and stay asleep. ![]() If she is formula fed, she may be able to sleep longer periods sooner due to the slower transit time of formula, as well as your slower response time to make a bottle in the night, but formula is the NOT the answer to getting your baby to sleep longer periods. Most breastfed babies will need 1 night feed until around 9 months, on average. The first reason your baby won’t sleep 11-12 hours through the night is that she’s just not ready. You can read more about sleeping through the night definitions and how many times breast fed babies need to eat overnight in my blog When Can My Baby Sleep Through The Night. In my world, it means 11-12 hours of uninterrupted sleep. There are 3 reasons your baby won’t sleep through the night, and 2 of them you can influence.įirst, let’s define what sleeping through the night means.
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