Comments on: Are you feeding your baby to sleep?

By: michele hernandez

michele hernandez — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:24:55 +0000

my 5 month old will not sleep! I try nursing him and putting him down, I put him down awake, I hold him and rock him, nothing works! He will cry for 2 hours plus if I let him and never sleep. He is always fussy and angry because he is soooo tired and I am exhausted and frustrated. He is a big baby so I don’t think there are eating issues and he is meeting all of his milestones but I seriously can not get him to sleep. He is the youngest of 6 so I have done this before and I am baffled and have exhausted all advice as well as I have read 4 books on getting your baby to sleep. Tried everything they suggested for 3 months now and nothing has worked!

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:35:33 +0000

Hi, Dana! Our high-energy 12-month-old boy takes 2 text-book perfect naps during the day without a bottle, but wakes up about 3 times each night for milk depsite having had a full dinner and a sippee cup with whole milk 2-3 hours before bed. We allow him time to self-soothe, but he persists, resuming the fight stronger and longer. We have also tried to ween him off nighttime feedings by offering him water instead, but it only serves as a temporary salve for his apparently empty tank. I can’t help but thinking that we are perpetuating this by neglecting to see the “easy” solution, but at the moment our current situation seems nonetheless hopeless. Please help us restore our confidence so we can better serve our child.

By: sehrish

sehrish — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:57:10 +0000

my daughter is going to be 4 months old after 2 days she sleeps from10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. and wakes up twice in between. i feed her 5 to 10 minutes and she falls asleep again i believe this is because i feed her as many times as she demands in the day time so she feels not much hunger during night.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:16:57 +0000

I am keen to find out how to drop a very stubborn 7 month old’s 5am feed.
He self settles and will sleep for around 2 hours after the 5am feed. But even though I want him to start his day at 7am he is then usually not hungry enough to eat until 8am or so.
I have tried twice to get him to drop it simply by ignoring him when he wakes up so he cries himself back to sleep. We did pretty good by day 3 when he slept until 6.30am, but then on day 4 he screamed hysterically, I gave in and we went back to square one.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thank you

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:32:39 +0000

We have been trying a no-cry solution with my 13 month old son for months! He was doing great, sleeping in his own crib until 6 months, then started teething and waking up 5 times or so a night, when this happened, I brought him in bed with me so I could get some sleep. He has been waking 4-6 times a night ever sense. At around 10 months, we tried the cry it out method a couple of times, but it was terrible, and he never even came close to calming down. I never let him go past a half an hour though. I want to say here, I don’t give into tantrums during the day, but these crys are different – he sounds scared. No matter how deeply asleep he is, when he realizes he is in his crib, he screams in fear. I was able to night wean him but still use bottles 1-2 times per night to get him back to sleep. I gradually 1) night weanded. 2) moved him to a mattress on the floor, 3) moved him into a toddler bed in his room sorrourned with pillows so I could rub his back. and get him back to sleep. I think we’ve made some progress, but he still wakes up 5 times or so a night. Sometimes, if I am right there he really tries to fall back asleep on his own, but if I get up to go to the bathroom, he wakes up and cries. I’ll put the crib rail back on tonight for safety, because I think we are going to try to let him cry again. I am really heartbroken.