Best Sleeptraining for 12 month old
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Anonymous
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Quick synopsis; this is DD2, 11.5 months old. 65% percentile in weight, 90th in height and has been walking for a month - a la well fed and happy baby (formula fed + 3 finger food meals a day and snacks).
DD1 (now 6 years old) was the opposite- a preemie and had GERD. We did Ferber at 9 months old in desperation (she never slept longer than 90 mins upright) and she was sleeping 12 hours a night after 4 days. All fine now and is gymnastics and swimming star that just got skipped a grade. With DD2 I swore I would sleep train again but this baby was happily doing 8 hour stretches at 10 weeks old so we let it go since she was such a good natural sleeper. Now at almost one we have a habit of her going down easily at 7pm with a bottle but waking for another at 11 and 4am. (Up for the day at 645). She drinks a 6oz bottle and passes back out so I’ve again been fine with it but I want to nip this in the bud. We tried Ferber and it’s been a disaster. She will eventually go to sleep but its not fixing the night wakings. Not looking for anti sleep training rhetoric - honestly looking for different tactics as our issue is staying asleep (or putting herself back to sleep withoit a bottle or me) |
Anonymous
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The Sleep East Solution. Best plan for slow night weanings.
Keep in mind just because this has overall been an easier baby doesn’t necessarily mean that sleep training will be easier. Crying an hour 2x a night on night 2 doesn’t necessarily mean anything is going wrong. |
Anonymous
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Slowly reduce the bottles first. She is getting her nutrition at night right now. You need to shift it to the day first so sleep training doesn't mean she's crying from hunger all night.
Then sleep train. Extinction with no checks worked great for us at that age (DC was waking up every 1-2 hours and in two nights was STTN) |
Anonymous
| Taking Cara babies. |
Anonymous
+1, her sleep training includes a plan for weaning the night feedings. Her approach is kind of like a gentle Ferber. |
Anonymous
| You don't need to sleep train, you need to night wean |