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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did your baby/child’s sleep ever improve? Either naturally or with non-CIO methods? My baby is 7 months and our lives have completely fallen apart from lack of sleep. I’m too tired to detail all the problems and how bad it is. I don’t want to sleep train but feel we have exhausted everything else, so I’d like to hear only from those who didn’t sleep train and eventually saw improvement to see if realistically there is any hope.

Please do not suggest obvious things like white noise, styles of sleep sack, wake windows, solids, etc. we have Tried. It. All.[/quote]

Feed your baby when he/she is hungry and comfort when they’re scared.  Your reaching the point where your baby gets object permanence and it gets better.

Sorry, OP.  It is rough now.  But in my experience gets better once the baby knows you will attend to their needs.  Are you exclusively breastfeeding?  Have you started solids?  The more the baby eats and drinks during the day, the longer he’ll sleep at night.  It will happen.

Until then, any chance of getting some help in do you can sleep? [/quote]

Unfortunately we had to let paid night help go because baby developed severe stranger danger and would scream for hours and hours when anyone but us put her to sleep. So my mother just moved in with us to help short term. We started solids and baby is playing more than eating so far but I’m hopeful eventually it will help. I combo feed breastmilk and formula but usually EBF overnight out of convenience. Considering night weaning to see if it would help (baby also has CMPA and I am so sick of the dairy free diet. I do not like breastfeeding anymore).[/quote]

Yeah so I figured this might be the issue. I asked abovr because there are some key words that flagged for me  
My son also has CMPA and are you positive the formula works for him? If you are using hydrolyzed and not amino acid formula please know that alimentum doesn't work for some CMPA kids and dairy hides in everything. 
Almost every CMPA kid I know has issues sleeping. My son is just now 4 and we are doing the dairy ladder for the 3rd time. He failed at 16 months and 2.75 years old. 
We realized he had dairy issues when I supplemented with formula and he reacted awful. Tried alimentum and it was still awful. I restarted breastfeeding through pumping 10-12 a day to restart my supply at like 3/4 weeks old. 
I did it for 2.5 years and would still have slipups for things like medication- he would react to medications that used bovine protein as the growth culture. Some probiotics . Some items that were safe but then they changed the ingredients and it wasn't safr anymore.
Dumb stuff like tortillas with milk or McDonald's french fries. And non dairy doesn't mean dairy free. Eating out was a minefield. People would think butter isn't dairy but eggs are. It was infuriating. [/quote]

Thanks for taking the time to write this. You are totally right that the CMPA diet is an impossible minefield. I gave up eating at restaurants because yes, sneaky dairy in everything. Processed foods are also impossible because whey in everything. I hadn’t even thought about vaccinations; that makes me despair a bit. No, I am absolutely not sure Alimentum is working. The constant nighttime gas and dolphin-flippering with her sleep sack, grimacing, and frothy poos are gone so I assumed it was working but I guess I don’t know. I actually had not heard of amino acid based formula so thank you.

The CMPA is a big reason I don’t want to sleep train. She was (and perhaps is) legitimately in pain for a long time, and I think it’s cruel to leave her to cry. Again I think sleep training is so great but I’ve seen my child cry for more than an hour without stopping and without being comforted by us being present, holding her hand, etc. it’s not right for our situation. I wish it was![/quote]

You buried the lede here. Your baby has a medical issue that leads you to not want to sleep train. Why not ask if other moms, with similar issues, have seen sleep improve?  Now you have pages and pages of useless info/opinions of people who are not in a similar situation, vs. the one poster who can actually give you reasonable advice.[/quote]

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