I'm reading The No Cry Sleep Solution and wondering what other people's experiences are with the book. I have a 9 month old who was a GREAT sleeper for the first 6 months-- we co-sleep and BF on demand (I WOH and pump so BFing at night was important to me to keep up supply).
For the first 6 months he went to bed at 7PM and woke to nurse around midnight and then maybe 3-4AM (sometimes slept through this one) and then at around 6:30 AM (I'd dream nurse him before work) then he kept sleeping with Dad until 9:30 AM or so. He was so easy to fall back asleep-- just nurse and cuddle and he's out.
Starting at 6 months with all the new crawling and teething and whatnot he became a different kid at night. This started *before* we introduced solids for the first time (and I later stopped solids completely for a few weeks to see if there was any change and there wasn't). For the past 3 months he wakes every 1-1.5 hours and is hard to get back to sleep. Dad and I have to keep trading off all night long, and he practically needs to be slung over our bodies to stay asleep. I do think that he is a light sleeper and we're waking him up, but we only have a 1BD so room-sharing it is. We have a loud air purifier that drowns out a lot of noise, but he still hears/feels us moving around and wakes up. He still is sleeping starting at 7 and still likes to sleep in, but is now down to one long nap during the day instead of 2. His naps aren't 100% consistent, but there's not a lot I can do about that because he is with Dad during the day most days and some days grandma and weekends me and dad and he responds differently to all of us!
Right now our crib is sidecarred and he sleeps in the crib part about half of the night and half of the night either in between us or next to one of us and the crib.
In reading the NCSS I was wondering if I should put up the 4th side to the crib and try to get him more used to laying him down when sleepy and patting his back or rubbing his head. Right now with me he nurses until sleepy then takes the pacifier while either cuddled in my arms in bed or laying next to me. Putting him to sleep the first time is easy. With Dad he holds him while standing up and bouncing.
Should I stop the pacifier? Put him in the crib and pick him up when he cries, then re-try again putting him down and patting him? Swaddling lately has helped somewhat, or at least a tight blanket. I don't do it every night only when he's really upset.
We haven't put the 4th side up on the crib yet because I'm scared. I'm scared of losing all my cuddle time, to be honest. I LOVE co-sleeping but I think it's keeping him awake. I'm scared of having a harder time when he wakes up and I can't just roll over and nurse. There is actually no room in our bedroom for the crib to be anywhere else, so I'd just have to sit up and grab him.
Any thoughts? Thanks for reading this far.
For the first 6 months he went to bed at 7PM and woke to nurse around midnight and then maybe 3-4AM (sometimes slept through this one) and then at around 6:30 AM (I'd dream nurse him before work) then he kept sleeping with Dad until 9:30 AM or so. He was so easy to fall back asleep-- just nurse and cuddle and he's out.
Starting at 6 months with all the new crawling and teething and whatnot he became a different kid at night. This started *before* we introduced solids for the first time (and I later stopped solids completely for a few weeks to see if there was any change and there wasn't). For the past 3 months he wakes every 1-1.5 hours and is hard to get back to sleep. Dad and I have to keep trading off all night long, and he practically needs to be slung over our bodies to stay asleep. I do think that he is a light sleeper and we're waking him up, but we only have a 1BD so room-sharing it is. We have a loud air purifier that drowns out a lot of noise, but he still hears/feels us moving around and wakes up. He still is sleeping starting at 7 and still likes to sleep in, but is now down to one long nap during the day instead of 2. His naps aren't 100% consistent, but there's not a lot I can do about that because he is with Dad during the day most days and some days grandma and weekends me and dad and he responds differently to all of us!
Right now our crib is sidecarred and he sleeps in the crib part about half of the night and half of the night either in between us or next to one of us and the crib.
In reading the NCSS I was wondering if I should put up the 4th side to the crib and try to get him more used to laying him down when sleepy and patting his back or rubbing his head. Right now with me he nurses until sleepy then takes the pacifier while either cuddled in my arms in bed or laying next to me. Putting him to sleep the first time is easy. With Dad he holds him while standing up and bouncing.
Should I stop the pacifier? Put him in the crib and pick him up when he cries, then re-try again putting him down and patting him? Swaddling lately has helped somewhat, or at least a tight blanket. I don't do it every night only when he's really upset.
We haven't put the 4th side up on the crib yet because I'm scared. I'm scared of losing all my cuddle time, to be honest. I LOVE co-sleeping but I think it's keeping him awake. I'm scared of having a harder time when he wakes up and I can't just roll over and nurse. There is actually no room in our bedroom for the crib to be anywhere else, so I'd just have to sit up and grab him.
Any thoughts? Thanks for reading this far.
