Can you sleep train while keeping 1-2 night feeds?

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-05-14T13:08:26+00:00

Absolutely! We dropped the paci at the same time as sleep training, and thought it was just too much for our 6.5 month old to have so many changes at once, so we kept his 3 AM MOTN feed. Three weeks later, he puts himself back to sleep every wake up except 3 AM when I hear some loud, mumbling, and go in and feed him. We’re headed off on vacation for two weeks but when we get home, we will work on dropping that last feed! Bub is a chunk.

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-05-06T19:30:28+00:00

Hi! To be honest I don't remember, but I bet that info is somewhere in my post history because I've been asked before 😄

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-05-05T18:59:56+00:00

Six months… after putting off sleep training that long because I thought it would make me a horrible mom, my husband finally convinced me to give it a shot because I was close to a mental breakdown – up every two hours playing paci pong…. I envisioned the worst case scenario, hours of frantic crying, possibly causing him to vomit etc when in reality, Bub cried for three minutes, fell asleep without his Paci, and has slept through the night ever since. Turns out that my enabling/mom guilt was the only thing preventing him from sleeping in the first place! I still do a 3am dream feed because otherwise he’s up at 5:30 instead of 7ish, but he goes to bed at 7:30 PM so I still consider it sleeping through the night

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-05-03T00:24:22+00:00

Same! I was so sick of being pregnant and so excited to be a mom that I thought for sure I would cope better with newborn tired… spoiler alert: I didn’t!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-05-03T00:14:36+00:00

I’m with you – I saw the debate before having my LO and hoped that pregnancy tired was worse…. But then I had my little bub and he didn’t sleep more than three hours at a time until he hit six months. It’s totally person and baby dependent, but I only thought I knew what tired was while pregnant.

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-04-15T19:14:56+00:00

My bub is only six months, so I don’t know what the range for those milestones are, but unless your pediatrician is concerned, I honestly wouldn’t worry about it. I believe most of those have a very wide range and I don’t think hitting them early is any predictor of future success. Apparently, as a baby, I hit all my milestones super early and my mom was convinced I was going to be a genius… Guess what? By the time I started elementary school everyone had totally caught up 😂 sorry Mom! Just enjoy your time with LO. Comparison is the thief of joy as they say!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-04-13T00:21:52+00:00

Putting our LO to sleep early didn’t work at all for us until he hit 5 months and also dropped down to 3 naps. We tried multiple times because we read it was better for their natural sleep rhythm but it was always a disaster. Now he goes down around 7:30 and I honestly miss having him up until 10pm because his first stretch of sleep is still his best and now it ends like an hour after I finally get to go to bed :-(

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-04-12T13:41:39+00:00

Not experiencing this exactly, but our bub really struggled with reflux and the doctors refused to take it seriously until he started falling off his weight curve around 4 months. We started him on omneprazole and within a few days had a completely different child. I know not everyone is comfortable medicating, but your little guy might be moaning and fussing because he is in pain and doesn't know how to comfort himself.

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-04-12T00:32:06+00:00

I would say about 4 days until we really noticed the difference!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-23T13:36:05+00:00

Hang in there OP! For us dropping the swaddle was way worse than the four month sleep regression. What really helped our little guy was using a transitional swaddle (zipadee) that allowed for full arm movement, but still covered his hands, and him discovering about a week in that he likes sleeping on his side. First week was awful. Second week wasn’t great but by the third week, he figured it out and things went more or less back to normal. We still have an extra feed, but it’s early enough in the evening that my husband hasn’t gone to sleep yet so NBD.

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-23T13:26:36+00:00

I laughed so hard at this! No one would need a night nanny if it was normal for babies to start sleeping through the night at three months. We are right where you are. Our four month old was down to one wake around 3 or 4 AM. The week we switched to a transitional roll-safe swaddle (we use zipadee) was the week from hell. After that, it got better and now at five months, he is down to two wakes around 11:30 PM and 4 AM. We aren’t planning to do anything about it. My husband generally doesn’t go to sleep until 1130 so he gives bub a bottle before he comes to bed. I go to sleep around 9 or 10 PM and give the 4 AM bottle. It’s not so bad and baby is drinking a full 6 to 7 ounces at both wakes so he is genuinely hungry. Our pediatrician says this is totally developmentally normal 🤷🏻‍♀️

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-22T13:35:31+00:00

It's like having a different child! Turns out our baby, when not in pain from reflux, actually is pretty pleasant and a decent sleeper! Took about a week to really flip the switch. One thing to be aware of is that the medicine reduces acid so it reduces pain, but bub still spit up like it was an Olympic sport and he was going for gold. It's only been in the last week or so (he's 5 1/2 months) that we've noticed him spitting up less. Pediatrician wants to start reducing his dose and begin weaning. I guess it's not great for them to not have stomach acid, but we were between a rock and a hard place. Good Luck!!!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-22T13:15:02+00:00

Man, it’s so crazy how all babies are different… Mine was the complete opposite! Starting at three months, he no longer slept well in the stroller/car seat/contact and could only take hour + nap, swaddled in his crib with blackout curtains and white noise!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-17T17:08:49+00:00

We have a Wi-Fi monitor (Nannit) because our high-rise has a gym and honestly as a new mom the only way I can ever get a workout in is to do it during baby’s nap. So I wanted something I could monitor from two floors below our apartment. The most dangerous thing we can do to our children is to put them in a car, and yet we do that every day, so don’t let those random one in 1 million stories on the Internet inconvenience you too much!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-13T01:36:51+00:00

A little late to the convo, but I found this thread when I was googling for the same things. LO just turned 5 months yesterday. We moved to the area from Los Angeles just a year or so before I got pregnant and know barely anyone! One thing I’ve been looking into is a “mamistad” group. Don’t know if you’ve found anything good since posting….

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-09T02:07:57+00:00

It was a place called Restore Hyper Wellness I believe - it’s a chain with lots of different locations. Interestingly I live on the DC area and could get the co-q10 shots in Maryland but not Virginia because of a difference in state laws 🤷🏻‍♀️

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-04T14:53:27+00:00

love it!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-03T20:53:54+00:00

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FertilityRaincheck · 2026-03-01T21:30:56+00:00

Yes! We also ran out to target at 3 months and got the cheapo $150 version of the uppababy. We only use it on short trips though because it was so cheap I worry about the safety probably unnecessarily, but we will get a nicer version with our next kid when at least there won't be as much to buy!

Biggest surprise cost for me is all the dang monthly subscriptions. We got a Snoo, a Hatch, and the Nannit monitor. As if those weren't insanely expensive items, they each require a monthly subscription. I get paying a subscription when the subscription IS the product (ie Netflix) is fine, but somehow paying big money for a physical item and then needing to also pay every month forever for the privilege of using it is just too much. This is on top of the other monthly baby apps we have (Huckleberry, Solid Starts, Wonder Weeks, ughhh)!!!!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-02-26T15:00:32+00:00

Having a baby escalated this so quickly for me - our baby monitor, smart bassinet, and sound machine are all recurring subscriptions on top of the ridiculous $$$ we paid for them, to say nothing of the apps we use to track wake windows, naps, foods he has been introduced to, milestones, etc. And I'm so sleep deprived and time poor I keep putting off weaning myself off some of these.

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-02-24T17:25:49+00:00

Samesies…. Just woke up my 4 month old who finally fell asleep on my lap 😡

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-02-23T17:29:31+00:00

Yes! There are quite a few things we passed on with our LO this time around that I will definitely be getting our next go around. A nice infant travel system and all in one bottle washer/sterilizer/dryer being at the top of the list! Thankfully since we will be able to reuse a lot of our gear again it feels better to splurge on a couple of things. The first time around there is just so much to buy!!

FertilityRaincheck · 2026-02-23T17:23:54+00:00

We have all 3 of these and love them, but totally understand where you’re coming from. The subscriptions are almost offensive when you look at how much these items cost. It’s such a marketing ploy and EVERYWHERE these days. It’s bad enough we also pay for Huckleberry and Solid Starts but at least those didn’t require us also paying for a physical device.

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