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MorningGlory
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Well, I see a theme developing in all my posts - they are mostly baby questions! We have a 6 month old daughter, and she is our first – so I’m just full of questions…
Anyway, my latest conundrum has to do with sleep. My daughter does not sleep “through the night” yet, although she’s gone some long stretches occasionally (i.e., 8pm-4am, but that only happened once). I would say she wakes up about 1-3 times every night, sometimes for food (she’s breastfed), sometimes just fussing (and then I go rock her). And sometimes, she gets up at like 2am and then STAYS up for an hour or two, and nothing I do seems to get her back to sleep .
So, I’m wondering what (if anything) you did to “help” your baby sleep better…some people believe it’s a developmental thing, and they will just sleep through when they’re ready. Others believe you can gently encourage them by doing various techniques like learning how to help them self-soothe. Still others advocate the old “cry it out” method, where you let the baby cry for periods at a time…it seems like everyone who has kids has some kind of opinion on this subject, so I’m wondering - what’s yours?
FYI - I have 2 books on this subject: “The No Cry Sleep Solution”, and “Health Sleep Habits, Happy Child”. I’ve only just recently started trying some of the techniques from the first book…
Anyway, my latest conundrum has to do with sleep. My daughter does not sleep “through the night” yet, although she’s gone some long stretches occasionally (i.e., 8pm-4am, but that only happened once). I would say she wakes up about 1-3 times every night, sometimes for food (she’s breastfed), sometimes just fussing (and then I go rock her). And sometimes, she gets up at like 2am and then STAYS up for an hour or two, and nothing I do seems to get her back to sleep .
So, I’m wondering what (if anything) you did to “help” your baby sleep better…some people believe it’s a developmental thing, and they will just sleep through when they’re ready. Others believe you can gently encourage them by doing various techniques like learning how to help them self-soothe. Still others advocate the old “cry it out” method, where you let the baby cry for periods at a time…it seems like everyone who has kids has some kind of opinion on this subject, so I’m wondering - what’s yours?
FYI - I have 2 books on this subject: “The No Cry Sleep Solution”, and “Health Sleep Habits, Happy Child”. I’ve only just recently started trying some of the techniques from the first book…