Another parental question

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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…
 
My little man was the worst sleeper, he wouldnt sleep at all during the day and at night time he would sleep for 45-60 minutes and then be awake for a couple of hours and then back to sleep for 45-60 minutes and then wake again. It was so hard i thought i was going to hurt him or something just to get a few hours kip. My hubby was no help as he said he needed sleep because he had to go to work, like i didnt need sleep so i could function properly the next day or something. I would never let Matthew “cry it out” it was too distressing for him and me. In the end i used to sleep bolt upright in my bed holding him or just put him in bed with me although i wasnt to comfortable with this. In the end as he got older he “grew out of it”, around the age of 10-11 months, but i still dont forget. Now he is almost 6 years old and would sleep until 10am if i let him. I know it is hard at the moment but there is light at the end of the tunnel. God Bless. Sue.
 
uh-oh… chick site… sorry… i’m outta here… 👍

…man, we need an estrogen flag…
 
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