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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What night is it? I would say yes, if it’s in the first, say 7-10 days, you should wait until he falls back to sleep.

If it was several weeks into this and he was basically sleep trained, I’d feed him if he woke up crying at 11:20 just for convenience sake, but I think it would be confusing to do that in the early stages.

Good luck! I know it’s hard - we did sleep easy too! So worth it in the end. [/quote]

It was night 10 exactly, which made it harder to decide. He cried for 75 mins and it didn’t look like he was going to sleep at all, so I gave in and fed him. Hope I didn’t ruin it with that. He woke up twice more in the middle of the night but was able to put himself back to sleep. What is the goal of sleep training? Is it considered to have failed if baby is still waking up 2-3 times at night? [/quote]

PP here. Night 10? Meh, probably fine, I wouldn't worry too much. You might consider moving his dreamfeed a little earlier to 1) avoid this and 2) make your life better once he's sleeping through - assuming he's getting up at 7am, and it takes a half hour to feed him and get yourself to bed after the dreamfeed, you're maxing out at 7 hours of sleep for yourself. I think you'd be better off with a dreamfeed at more like 10:30. (somewhat depending on his bedtime)

The goal is that when he wakes up in the middle of the night (as we all do! without even realizing it!) he just goes back to sleep without crying. That way, you get a full nights sleep, and his isn't disrupted by fully waking and crying. He'll just do what we do - adjust or roll in a half asleep state and fall right back to sleep.

I will say that everyone says sleep training is 3-5 days. And I think for many (most?) it is - but we were still having some crying jags through week 2. And even, I think, in week 3, we had a couple bad naps. Still worth it!

How are naps going during the day? The 2-3 times a night he's waking - is that every night, or just some nights? How long is he crying? Have you seen some progress since week 1?[/quote]

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