Comments on: Weaning And Sleep Struggles — A Survival Guide http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/weaning-and-sleep-struggles-a-survival-guide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weaning-and-sleep-struggles-a-survival-guide Tips and advice on solving your child's sleep problems! Wed, 16 May 2012 23:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: YVette Harding http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/weaning-and-sleep-struggles-a-survival-guide/#comment-14639 YVette Harding Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:10:04 +0000 http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/?p=77#comment-14639 WHen should a dream feed be stopped and how. My son is 6 months old and around 8.5 kilos. He has 4-5 feeds suring to day and a dream feed at between 10-11pm. However recently he has woken earlier around 9.30 so i have given it to him then and he has continued to sleep through. Ari however has always been an early riser between 5.30-6.30. He always self settles to sleep however we have tried everything and i dont feed him till 6.30 am despite when he wakes up. I would like to stop thew DF so i can go to bed earlier given that he is an early riser There is probably 2 questions in this ceasing the DF and how to manage early rising. thanks YVette WHen should a dream feed be stopped and how. My son is 6 months old and around 8.5 kilos. He has 4-5 feeds suring to day and a dream feed at between 10-11pm. However recently he has woken earlier around 9.30 so i have given it to him then and he has continued to sleep through. Ari however has always been an early riser between 5.30-6.30. He always self settles to sleep however we have tried everything and i dont feed him till 6.30 am despite when he wakes up. I would like to stop thew DF so i can go to bed earlier given that he is an early riser
There is probably 2 questions in this ceasing the DF and how to manage early rising.
thanks YVette

]]> By: Jas http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/weaning-and-sleep-struggles-a-survival-guide/#comment-10556 Jas Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:15:40 +0000 http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/?p=77#comment-10556 Hi Dana, My son is now 11 months old and have not sleep through the night since birth. He goes to sleep at 8pm and wakes up at 11pm for milk and after that he gets up every hour. Sometimes I would feed him right back to sleep or walk him to sleep. I have tried many times not to walk or feed him to sleep but instead I just leave him in his crib and hoping he would go to sleep . After 4 hours, he still wide awake. His problem is he doesn't know how to fall asleep on his own. I can't go on like this any longer now tat he is getting bigger and heavier. It breaks my back every night walking him to sleep. I have tried the "cry it out" method but after 3 hours of crying I gave in, eventhough he is very tire but he just doesn't know how to fall asleep on his own. Help, I really don't know what to do. I am getting very desparate. Hi Dana,

My son is now 11 months old and have not sleep through the night since birth. He goes to sleep at 8pm and wakes up at 11pm for milk and after that he gets up every hour. Sometimes I would feed him right back to sleep or walk him to sleep. I have tried many times not to walk or feed him to sleep but instead I just leave him in his crib and hoping he would go to sleep . After 4 hours, he still wide awake. His problem is he doesn’t know how to fall asleep on his own. I can’t go on like this any longer now tat he is getting bigger and heavier. It breaks my back every night walking him to sleep. I have tried the “cry it out” method but after 3 hours of crying I gave in, eventhough he is very tire but he just doesn’t know how to fall asleep on his own. Help, I really don’t know what to do. I am getting very desparate.

]]> By: nikki http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/weaning-and-sleep-struggles-a-survival-guide/#comment-3838 nikki Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:19:47 +0000 http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/?p=77#comment-3838 i have a 7 month old daughter that just will not sleep through the night. she goes down at night around 7pm without a problem and also has regular nap times during the day without a hitch. but a night time it is a different matter. she wakes up every 2 hours and the only way she will go back off is with a bottle. she knows it is night-time as she is never fully awake when she does wake up. ive tried letting her cry it out, boiled water, rubbing her back, giving her a big feed before bed time. shes on solids and loves them but just will not give her bottle up during the night. it is so much easier just to give her the bottle as it keeps her quiet and does not keep the rest of the house awake. i have also got 3yr old twin girls and never had this problem. as u can imagine having twins aswell and being up alnight with baby, im like a bear with a sore head in the morning if i dont give in, hope u can help me i have a 7 month old daughter that just will not sleep through the night. she goes down at night around 7pm without a problem and also has regular nap times during the day without a hitch. but a night time it is a different matter. she wakes up every 2 hours and the only way she will go back off is with a bottle. she knows it is night-time as she is never fully awake when she does wake up. ive tried letting her cry it out, boiled water, rubbing her back, giving her a big feed before bed time. shes on solids and loves them but just will not give her bottle up during the night. it is so much easier just to give her the bottle as it keeps her quiet and does not keep the rest of the house awake. i have also got 3yr old twin girls and never had this problem. as u can imagine having twins aswell and being up alnight with baby, im like a bear with a sore head in the morning if i dont give in, hope u can help me

]]> By: Larissa http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/weaning-and-sleep-struggles-a-survival-guide/#comment-3803 Larissa Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:26:47 +0000 http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/?p=77#comment-3803 I have a 19 month old little girl, who we have just moved into a single bed, due to having a second baby arriving in 5 weeks time. We have so far been trying to sleep her in this bed at niight now for 3 weeks. We find that she wakes and walks down to our bedroom wanting to get into bed with us. Despite taking her back to her own bed, and trying to resettle her, she may stay awake then for up to 2 hours at a time, dozing off and on during this time for attention. We have stopped giving her a bottle during the night, which did help settle her, we have also stopped letting her into bed with us, and I am now taking to sleeping on a mattress beside her bed, and then she seems to find her way onto the mattress. She use to resettle herself no problems when she was in a cot, but for some reason she does not seem to be able to. She has not been the best of sleepers since she was born, and is often a very restless sleeper. she does not have a dummy, but sleeps with a teddy bear. Her day time sleeps are from 1 hour to 2 hours a day. I have tried the whole walk out and come back in, letting her cry, which no matter how hard you try she continues to cry/scream.... that has never worked..... Any suggestions???? Am at my wits ends..... I have a 19 month old little girl, who we have just moved into a single bed, due to having a second baby arriving in 5 weeks time. We have so far been trying to sleep her in this bed at niight now for 3 weeks. We find that she wakes and walks down to our bedroom wanting to get into bed with us. Despite taking her back to her own bed, and trying to resettle her, she may stay awake then for up to 2 hours at a time, dozing off and on during this time for attention. We have stopped giving her a bottle during the night, which did help settle her, we have also stopped letting her into bed with us, and I am now taking to sleeping on a mattress beside her bed, and then she seems to find her way onto the mattress. She use to resettle herself no problems when she was in a cot, but for some reason she does not seem to be able to. She has not been the best of sleepers since she was born, and is often a very restless sleeper. she does not have a dummy, but sleeps with a teddy bear. Her day time sleeps are from 1 hour to 2 hours a day. I have tried the whole walk out and come back in, letting her cry, which no matter how hard you try she continues to cry/scream…. that has never worked….. Any suggestions???? Am at my wits ends…..

]]> By: sabrina http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/weaning-and-sleep-struggles-a-survival-guide/#comment-3666 sabrina Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:06:25 +0000 http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/?p=77#comment-3666 I have a 15 month old that i finally got to go to sleep on her own about 3 months ago and everything was going great, till for some reason she figured out how to make herself get sick. Now everytime i put her in her crib she stands up and makes hersolf get sick by sticking her fingure in her mouth.I've asked everyone and no one has any idea of what i am to do. It now to the point i have to sleep with her on the futton so my husband can get a good sleep for work. I'mlost at what to do, if i can't let her cry then what? Please help, Sincerly Sabrina I have a 15 month old that i finally got to go to sleep on her own about 3 months ago and everything was going great, till for some reason she figured out how to make herself get sick. Now everytime i put her in her crib she stands up and makes hersolf get sick by sticking her fingure in her mouth.I’ve asked everyone and no one has any idea of what i am to do. It now to the point i have to sleep with her on the futton so my husband can get a good sleep for work. I’mlost at what to do, if i can’t let her cry then what? Please help, Sincerly Sabrina

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