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[quote=Anonymous]My almost 8 month old sleeps terribly.  We have always had to feed him to sleep and then transfer him to the crib, even for most naps.  Sometimes we have to feed him to sleep and then he will wake up in an hour or so and then we have to rock him.  His long stretch was between 2 to 4 hours.  He is also high needs and suffered from reflux until about 5 months.

At six months my husband started on insisting on sleep training.  I sleep in the nursery with the baby and my husband sleeps in the bedroom alone.  I was against sleep training but my husband is suffering from male post-partum depression and he felt that he needed me back in the bedroom with him instead of getting up with the baby all night.

I followed the book Precious Little Sleep and started with softer sleep training techniques.  None of it helped.  After that we tried extinction.  The first night he literally cried for three hours.  It was better some nights in that he only cried for an hour or so.  The crying did not get progressively shorter though.  Even when he cried it out he would only go down for a four hour stretch at most.  Some nights he’d be up 40 minutes after he fell asleep.  We did this for two weeks but overall there was no improvement in his sleep habits.  It was torture for me to listen to him cry.  My husband wants the baby to cry it out indefinitely which I think is cruel.

Since then, I have gone back to feeding my son to sleep.  Right now, he has no long stretch at the beginnig of the night but has sometimes gone three hours or so in the middle of the night.  I will admit that sometimes if he has no long stretches by 3 or 4 am I take him into bed with me and he will sleep in bed next to me.  He sleeps really well that way but I stay awake to watch him and keep him safe.  I know this is not sustainable!  Has anyone else had this experience?  Where do I go from here?![/quote]

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