Same situation. We had a rough CIO week when he was turning 8 months old last month, then a few great weeks of sleep where it seemed we turned a corner, and now we’re back to hysterical crying every three hours.

He goes right back to sleep with a bottle. He’s teething, he just learned to crawl and pull up on things, and I know that all leads to sleep regression.

I am struggling with whether to do another round of CIO, which is miserable for our toddler too. Plan A was for them to be roommates already. But I don’t feel good about falling back on the bottle either for reasons already mentioned (they don’t need it, habit, cavities).

Am I just out of luck until these new teeth come in?

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure people will have some good advice that might work for you. But I just want to say, sometimes babies are just really hard and they have stretches where they're up more at night and you just live through it. 9 months old seems "late" to night wean by dcum standards, but there are so many people who end up feeding their babies at night into toddlerhood for a variety of reasons.

I am the pp with the 17 month old. He has baby bottle cavities from night snacks. He was always at the breast, no bottle. Don't believe the hippies when they say you can night snack all you want as long as it is the breast.

I'm sure people will have some good advice that might work for you. But I just want to say, sometimes babies are just really hard and they have stretches where they're up more at night and you just live through it. 9 months old seems "late" to night wean by dcum standards, but there are so many people who end up feeding their babies at night into toddlerhood for a variety of reasons.

We are having a similar situation after trying to sleep train our 10 month old. Cry it out doesn't work because we room share and after 40 minutes we've had enough. My husband is taking over and telling her "no" when she stands at the crib and cries and puts her back down. Sometimes she will go back. I wish we could say we're seeing improvement, but it is very slow. We have a family vacation planned in July, I might make the new setting the "say bye bye to boob" place. I tried and failed to sleep train the older sibling and he didn't sleep through the night (8 hours, not 5) until he was 17 months old. I complained to my dad about this and he disclosed that his mom complained that he gave her a hard time too so it must run in the family (lucky me!). As the days tick by spending hundreds of dollars on a sleep consultant is looking less and less crazy.

My baby went from sleeping 4 to 6 hours at a stretch at night (so just one or two wakings) to now stirring and crying out every couple of hours. It's been so hard these past few days. We night-weaned a couple weeks ago, and it went well, but now he hysterically cries for milk, even though he has plenty to eat during the day and really shouldn't be that hungry.

Advice?

CIO did not work well for him, since he's stubborn and cries so hard he vomits within 10 minutes.