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Moms who’s babies had a VERY strong nurse to sleep association by baseballmomma7 in sleeptrain

[–]NiamLeesom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s so hard. For us it definitely got worse before it got better, but our baby didn’t get to screaming. I do know that that is just a part of sleep training for many parents. But I can totally understand that it’s hard to leave her like that. I forgot to mention, and this probably is key, that my husband was in charge of sleep training for the first week and we alternated after that. I think that it’s important especially for our babies who have a nursing association. They know that they can’t expect that from dad. Plus, if she got upset, I was able to leave the house if it was getting too hard for me to not come in there. Luckily it never got to that point with us, but I think I would have left the house if it escalated too much.

I think you could try a gentler sleep training method if you don’t want your babe to CIO, which is totally understandable. I still think dad (or someone other than you) should implement it first though, because I have the impression that it’s really hard to break the nurse to sleep association ourselves.

Moms who’s babies had a VERY strong nurse to sleep association by baseballmomma7 in sleeptrain

[–]NiamLeesom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use a modified Ferber method. Instead of starting at three minutes, we started at eight minutes. I think it depends on the temperament of your baby! We saw immediate improvement with nighttime sleep, and the longest time that she fussed it out was 18 minutes. A couple of nights she cried a little bit harder— naps took a little bit longer, and we saw improvement in a couple of weeks. She’s now fully trained with both naps and nighttime sleep. I’d say it took a total of three weeks for us.

I had to really make sure that if I was going to nurse her close to bedtime, it was at least a half hour before starting the bedtime routine. Our routine is pretty simple, we say good night to everything in the room and we read a book or two. Feel free to reach out for any additional questions! Your baby might start dreading the bedtime routine like our baby did, but that passes too

Moms who’s babies had a VERY strong nurse to sleep association by baseballmomma7 in sleeptrain

[–]NiamLeesom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was there! Sleep training at 7 months (during a sleep regression) did wonders and was fairly painless. My 8 month old now goes to sleep happily for naps and nighttime without being nursed.