9 month old still wakes up every 90 min - eats formula

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate when people recommend these long books. Surely sleep training doesn’t require more than a one-page how-to?

It doesn’t. Tell the baby you’ll be back in the morning. Put the baby to bed and close the door. Don’t reenter until 6 am. The end!

I’m a huge proponent of sleep training, sleep trained with CIO and night weaned both my kids right at 4 months. And I think this is harsh. Baby is used to eating overnight! She’s going to wake up hungry, and you’re just going to let her CIO for 12 hours hungry? That is harsh, and incredibly hard on the parents, and for no reason. Sleep easy has a gradual system of nightweaning so you know your baby isn’t crying out of hunger, just habit.

This x 1 million. I sleep train at 4 months and believe in it. But you can suddenly stop feeding a 9 month old every 90 minutes. They will cry all night and it's counter productive. Just slowly wean night feeds.

PP the book takes an hour to read. You can't spare an hour to keep your baby from crying for 12 hours? Wtf is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

My pediatrician suggested going in with a bottle with water in it instead of formula.
1st night baby drank an oz or so of water.
2nd night, too like one sip and didn’t want any more and then I put him back to bed 3rd night he basically looked at me and the bottle of water and turned away and went back to sleep.

My sone was 6 months old.

[Anonymous]

She is waking up out of habit, not because she needs the nutrition. The 1-2 ounces is telling. Sounds like she can’t get back to sleep without needing a bottle to soothe her. I would sleep train. It doesn’t sound like it will get better until you teach her to how to self-soothe without a bottle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate when people recommend these long books. Surely sleep training doesn’t require more than a one-page how-to?

It doesn’t. Tell the baby you’ll be back in the morning. Put the baby to bed and close the door. Don’t reenter until 6 am. The end!

I’m a huge proponent of sleep training, sleep trained with CIO and night weaned both my kids right at 4 months. And I think this is harsh. Baby is used to eating overnight! She’s going to wake up hungry, and you’re just going to let her CIO for 12 hours hungry? That is harsh, and incredibly hard on the parents, and for no reason. Sleep easy has a gradual system of nightweaning so you know your baby isn’t crying out of hunger, just habit.

She is not waking up because she is hungry. We all wake up. She is waking up and wanting a bottle because she can’t self-soothe. If she was really hungry, she would take more than 1-2 ounces. A 9 month old who eats enough during the day can go 12 hours at night without eating. She will not starve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate when people recommend these long books. Surely sleep training doesn’t require more than a one-page how-to?

It doesn’t. Tell the baby you’ll be back in the morning. Put the baby to bed and close the door. Don’t reenter until 6 am. The end!

This is horrible.

Works wonders. Now have a happy well rested child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate when people recommend these long books. Surely sleep training doesn’t require more than a one-page how-to?

It doesn’t. Tell the baby you’ll be back in the morning. Put the baby to bed and close the door. Don’t reenter until 6 am. The end!

I’m a huge proponent of sleep training, sleep trained with CIO and night weaned both my kids right at 4 months. And I think this is harsh. Baby is used to eating overnight! She’s going to wake up hungry, and you’re just going to let her CIO for 12 hours hungry? That is harsh, and incredibly hard on the parents, and for no reason. Sleep easy has a gradual system of nightweaning so you know your baby isn’t crying out of hunger, just habit.

She is not waking up because she is hungry. We all wake up. She is waking up and wanting a bottle because she can’t self-soothe. If she was really hungry, she would take more than 1-2 ounces. A 9 month old who eats enough during the day can go 12 hours at night without eating. She will not starve.

She's hungry because she's use to eating every 90 minutes. If you ate every 90 minutes and then someone tried to not feed you for 12 hours straight I guarantee you would be hungry too. I'm a big proponent of CIO but to do so without at least trying to reduce feedings and wean, even for a week, is psychotic and abusive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My pediatrician suggested going in with a bottle with water in it instead of formula.
1st night baby drank an oz or so of water.
2nd night, too like one sip and didn’t want any more and then I put him back to bed 3rd night he basically looked at me and the bottle of water and turned away and went back to sleep.

My sone was 6 months old.

We did this too. Drop the bottles first before you sleep train, especially at 9 months. It’s too mean otherwise. And make sure she isn’t falling asleep on the bottle at the beginning of the night