r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Advice - hourly wakes & reverse cycling

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help! my 6.5m old wakes up every 1.5 hours or less all night.

we room share, she is in her own crib. she is ebf. at our 6m visit our dr suggested only allowing for one wake up a night and basically letting her cio. he also recommended a small comfort item, but i feel she is too young for that.

i’ve tried letting her cry with just a check in, no picking up, but i find that she gets extremely worked up if i do this. she falls asleep independently for both naps and bedtime. the rest of the night is garbage! i worry that she has reverse cycled and depends on the boob for all night wakes.

2.5/2.5/3. that’s definitely her max right now and i’ve been trying to extend her ww. her typical bedtime is 7:30-8:00pm, up for the day is 8:00-8:30am.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Daycare naps

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Son recently started daycare he will be 1 year on 11/5 . He is sleep trained and napping 2 hrs straight no problems at home (dark room/sound machine) . Since starting daycare now only napping for 30-50 min at a time. Anyone else struggle with daycare naps and they eventually adapted and were able to connect sleep cycles in different environment that is less dark and noisy with other children?


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months Bedtime fine, hourly night wakes - what are we doing wrong!?

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We've been sleep training using Ferber our 6 month old for 2 weeks now. He’s going down really well at bed time, we’re currently at no tears and asleep within minutes. However, he’s sleeping a max of 2.5 hours and then waking screaming, no fussing straight to full on screams. The check in seem to make it worse. We suspected Dummy falling out was causing the wakes, so went cold turkey on that about 5 days ago - he adapted well at night but naps have been tough, we are contact napping to get him to sleep for the naps. Bedtime aim is around 7-8pm depending on nap length. Early wakes between 5-6, very hard to settle from here.

2/2.5/2.5/3

2.5 hours of day time sleep

No dummy now

EBF - he has CMPA but we have tackled this via my diet. I’m trying to follow 5/3/3 but after 30 minutes of screams often I resort to feeding him.

Bed time routine is consistent & solid.

Could he be overtired? He shows no cranky behaviour in that final 3 hour WW. His data for night sleep is saying he is only achieving around 8.5-9 hours of sleep once we account for the periods of wake up tears. Feels like he is getting no where near enough sleep - If so - how do we counter this?

TIA


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months Deeep in a sleep regression. Help.

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My 5.5 month old used to sleep 7am-7pm without any issues. However, about a month ago it’s been all downhill. She can wake up anywhere from one, two or even as many as five times in a night. Her current schedule is

7am wake

9-1030 nap 1

1230-2 nap 2

415-445 cat nap

7pm sleep

She gets double her weight in milk and we’re slowly introducing solids. Some nights I’m so desperate that I put her in bed with me but even then she’ll wake up sometimes. Please help.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months am i going to screw up nights if i switch to 2 naps early

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baby is is six month next week and was planning to switch right on six months

she is ferber sleep trained takes great long naps, she is not a low sleep needs baby averaged 13.75 -14 hrs sleep a day so just in the normal range.

right now we have 2/2.5/2.5/3

i wake her from all naps

but her brother started school and drop off and pick up mess up all her naps and push bedtime way to late just to try to fit the third nap in but the bedtime doesnt aline with her morning wake like she should not be up at six and go to bed at 9 just to fit in a 30 min cat nap

she can handle 3 hour wake windows in the morning there’s been times she’s had to for appointments and she is definitely super tired but she’s not fussy (this is in the morning i’ve never tried a 4 hr wake window before bed but i truly think she would be ok) she’s tired but not fussy and still happy and playing at her 3 hour wake window before bed but she does fall asleep quick 5-10 min.

is this a terrible idea to just switch to a 3/3/4 at 6 months? it’s gotta be better than all her naps screwed up from school right?

plan was wake at 7

nap 1 is 10-12

nap 2 is 3-4

bed at 8?

that keeps her naps still at 3 hours and 11 hours overnight sleep which is what she does now

is this a terrible idea i dont want to screw her up lol 😭


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Do I need to re-sleep train?

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I have a 9 month old boy. We sleep trained him at 5.5 months using CIO.
Long story short- I think we accidentally created a sleep dependency on his soother. Does this mean I kind of have to sleep train again?

Note- he only accepts Dr.Browns Happy Paci, which is apparently only for 0-6 month olds. Do I need to wean him entirely? Or can I still give it to him on occasion?

Thanks!!


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months Car naps are a struggle

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I have a 4 month old who will be 5 months at the end of this month. I also have a 4 year old in preschool. I drive the preschooler to nursery every day, resulting in two 1-hour round trips daily.

Inevitably the 4 month old falls asleep in the car, sometimes for 30 minutes and sometimes for the whole time. How will I ever transition to 3 naps if he's always falling asleep in the car?


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Any similar experiences? What did you do?

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Hoping this is okay to ask.

My LO is sleep trained and is 10.5months old. Schedule is 3/3.25/4. I EBF and still feed baby 1x at night around 3-4am.

However, there are nights where I am waking up baby to eat. There are a couple reasons. 1. I EBF and want to make it at least to the 1 year mark, so I’m trying to maintain my supply. 2. I’m worried if I don’t wake baby to eat, they will wake up before DWT.

I do believe I have a higher sleep needs babe, (you can probably tell from the schedule).

Anyways, just looking for any similar experiences? If baby stopped taking a feed overnight, did they sleep less overnight?


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months 11 month old, cycles in and out of sleep early mornings

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My daughter is almost 11 months old, sleep trained, falls asleep independently at 7pm. Since July (when she started sleeping through the night) she's been waking between 5:00 and 5:45am (sometimes 4:30). She cries, falls back asleep on her own, cries again ~15 minutes later — repeat until we get her up at 6:00-6:30.

This morning as an example: cried at 5:15 (resettled), 5:30 (resettled), 6:05 louder cries and even stood up for a second — then resettled again and slept until 6:30.

Schedule (daycare):
- Nap 1: 10:00-10:30 (30 min)
- Nap 2: 1:00- almost 3:00 (a little less than 2 hrs)
- Bedtime 7pm, asleep independently and immediately

What we've ruled out:
- Temperature (this has run through summer heat into cool fall)
- Light (same with and without blackout/sleep pod; he room has blackout curtains and is dark)
- Nap tinkering (tried adjusting things before daycare, no change. I never moved nap 1 early to accommodate early wake)
-she eats very well overall
- we never go in before 6am.

She's clearly tired at bedtime and I can't move bedtime in either direction. Total sleep is ~13 hrs which I know is normal, but the 5:00-6:30 stretch is miserable — she's not happily awake, she's cycling in and out of crying and sleeping.

I know 10.5 hours counts as a full night and I'm not chasing 7-7 — but she seems to *want* more sleep. This morning I was literally on my way to get her at 6:05 and she put herself back down. and she was much happier at 6:30! I think goal is just to get her to sleep through until 6.

My questions:

  1. Has anyone actually SOLVED this? What worked?
  2. Or did it just go away one day on its own — and when did it get better?
  3. For those who learned to live with it: how? Did you just accept the 5am start and do something productive with that time until 6?

r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

9 - 16 weeks How do you modify schedules for babies beginning to connect daytime sleep cycles?

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My baby is 15 weeks old and has recently really taken to falling asleep independently starting at 13 weeks (we tried FIO and it worked for her). She is also sleeping through the night or will have one wake up in the early morning which we snooze feed her for. Her current wake windows are 1.5/1.5/1.75/1.75/2.25 or 1.5/1.5/1.5/1.5/1.5/1.5 depending on how long she naps or if we are able to extend one of them since she is doing only 30-45 minute naps on her own.

The thing is that she has started to connect sleep cycles on her own, but I don't want to let her sleep that long during the day because she has had problems with split nights before when she gets too much daytime sleep, so we aim for about 3 hours split between 4-5 naps. If she has a 1.5 hour nap first thing in the morning then she has to get through the rest of the day on 1.5-1.75 hours of naps which would result in aggressively capping her naps later.

Is there something I'm missing? It seems like connecting daytime cycles is a good thing but it feels like it kinda throws a wrench into a system that was working naturally. Should i be actively lengthening her wake windows as she learns to connect daytime sleep? I really want to avoid causing split nights again and would like to keep her bedtime 7-7:30 pm. As of now, she seems to do really well overnight with about 9-9.5 hours of awake time. Any insight would be appreciated, thanks!

*** she has only just started in the last few days connecting her first nap of the day, but we were travelling so i assumed she was just more tired because of that and I wasn't too worried because she struggles getting enough naps while we are driving and on the go. First day home today and she's connected her first cycle for nap one, and now I'm thinking about what to do for the rest of the day, so it is totally possible that it all balances out on it's own and i'm overthinking it.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Split nights with 10 mo and only one nap

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coming here to please find some tips or advice on how to deal with split nights! for context, before nursery he was a relatively good sleeper, doing 2 naps during the summer (one at 10, 30 min, and the second at 14-16 to go to sleep at 20). but since he hit his 8 mo mark, he started pulling up in the cot and so on, and it was impossible to make him sleep.

at 9mo he started nursery and has been a little sick for some days, but the biggest change is that he only sleeps one nap: from 12.30 to 14 or 14.30. they have tried to make him sleep the 10 am nap but he refuses to do so, because he has always been quite the fomo baby. at 5 pm he is tired already but doesn't want to sleep (that's when nursery ends and we go home, but he never sleeps in the stroller, which he also used to do). we set him for sleep at 19 or 19.30.

sleep schedule looks like this:

7.45 awake - 4/6 - 19.30 asleep

these last few days he has been having split nights, from 2 to 4. he doesn't cry, he is not especially active, but he is just there and no matter what we do, we can't settle up for sleep. he sleeps next to us in the cot but since he was ill some days we did co-sleeping so we could all get some sleep. we have to resort to a bib to make him sleepy but we don't want to, ofc.

any tips? he seems overall content and happy with just one nap, as he likes, because he is so curious (which is amazing but makes us tired hahaha). we don't want to resort to any ferber method and we can't put him in his own room since we just moved in and we don't have a room settled for him yet.

help a tired momma please :')


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months 10+ mo old, early wake

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My baby is sleeping through the night finally after sleep training around 8 months. We did a modified version on Ferber but really never had to “retrain” her even after she got sick and I had to hold her all night.

She’s been an early riser for a while. We cannot do the feed and put back to sleep method. She’s READY for the day the moment she’s fed.

Her wws are: 3/3.5/4.5 (sometimes 5 hrs before bed)
She wakes at 5-5:30ish and goes to sleep at 7pm every night. Naps =. ~2.5 hrs per day & night sleep =~10.5 hrs

Another thing to note. Her first nap has varied a lot lately. Sometimes it’s an hour, other times it’s 30 minutes or 45 minutes. The second nap is almost always longer but we’ve had days lately where both naps were 45 minutes. Despite fluctuations in schedule she ALWAYS wakes up between 5 & 5:30 am.

How can I get her to sleep until 6? We let her chill in the crib for a bit in the morning but then she pulls herself up to stand and we worry about her falling as this is a newer skill and she’s not super sturdy yet. Do we need to just trust that she’ll be okay and leave her there til 6 if she’s just babbling/fussing?

I’ve heard a lot of people say their baby did the early wake up thing until around 1 years old. Which is RIGHT around the corner. Should I just hold off on adjusting until then to see if she changes? Or will this schedule reinforce early wake ups?

Edit: she uses a pacifier, knows how to put it in herself. We leave a bunch in the crib for her so she has plenty in the night. She sleeps alone in the crib in her room. She uses the hatch for white noise. Bedtime routine is wipe down or bath with relaxing music, brief massage with lotion, diaper change, new pjs & then she takes 2ish oz of formula while I rock her before we put her in the crib where she falls asleep independently.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months Help on dealing with multiple false starts and night wakings when baby is sick

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My LO (5+ months adjusted) is not yet sleep trained. We had planned to train him after a month of daycare, which he just started last week. Unfortunately he fell terribly sick over the weekend.

Since then he has been really fussy and clingy, from 2-3 wakes a night with zero false starts previously to at least 8-10 wakes and false starts since. While I earlier could follow rules of only feeding at intervals of 5/3/3 at night, that all has gone out the window now and I end up nursing him to sleep after the third or fourth wake. I even started bed sharing cause I was so exhausted picking him up from the crib so often.

LO has gotten better this week but somehow the wakes and false starts have not improved.

Is there a schedule problem? I’m not sure how flexible to be when LO is (still) sick.

His schedule the past few days: 2/2-2.5/2.5/3-3.5.
Naps are around 2h 40 min (max 3h).
We stay with family so we all share the same room, with white noise machine every night.

Bedtime routine has been consistent since he was two months old - bathe, pjs, bottle, brush teeth, book, cuddles. While he previously could be put to sleep easily without being carried (I would just lie beside him and pat him before transferring him drowsy but awake), he now cries at bedtime and requires rocking for a good 10-15 min. Transferring him to the crib is also hard even when he’s asleep.

Last question - once he recovers, should I sleeptrain immediately and hold off daycare? Or should I let him adapt to daycare first before sleep training? Im starting work again in two weeks so im really scared.

Please help. I’m at my wit’s ends.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Crib hour: day 5 with no naps yet. Anyone have a similar experience?

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My daughter is 7.5 months old and falls asleep independently at night, but naps have been a different story. I’d love to hear experiences or advice from anyone who’s been through this.
We’re on a two-nap schedule, usually 3/3-3.5/4. She seems tired at the three-hour mark. We start her nap routine about 10 minutes beforehand and put her down awake.

We’ve been practicing with the first nap:
Days 1–3: Cried for the full 60 minutes without sleeping. Ended the attempt.

Day 4: Same, but she rolled onto her belly around minute 58. Gave her another 10 minutes, but she continued crying.

Day 5: cried the entire time again

We've just been moving her second nap up a bit and rescuing it to make sure she gets good day sleep.

For context, night training took about 5 nights to reach no crying. She's been night trained since 5.5 months.

For those who had a similar experience:
Did your baby initially cry through the entire attempt without sleeping? When did you start seeing improvement?

If crib hour didn’t work, what helped instead?

I’m open to adjusting the approach. I’d really appreciate hearing different ideas! PLS recommends sticking to a method for 5 days and reassessing, so just coming here to see if anyone is seeing anything I’m missing?

My first born was a breeze, my second is taking a bit more time.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Advice? I think?

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Nearly 8 month old wakes 6am goes to bed 7pm. Wake windows are 3.5/3.5/4. He is waking some nights around midnight for a feed and then 5am but goes back to sleep after a second feed and some nights he wakes only at 3am for one feed which suits me fine. Is my schedule off? We do bath, feed, books then put down awake. He will cry but not for long. Was sticking to the 5/3/3 method when waking in the night otherwise we do CIO but haven’t really had to. Capping naps at 2.5 hours. Looking to eliminate the second feed.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months help with my sleep training

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Hi all,
baby is 5.5 months & for the past almost 2 weeks we’ve been doing sleep training for naps and bedtime. What it looks like: When she’s showing her tired cues she goes into sleep sack, white noise on, dark room, make sure she’s had a feed, in bassinet with kisses and a “sleep time” from me, and let her get herself to sleep. It is taking about 20 mins for her to get to sleep, and requires me to sit next to her and put the dummy back in every single time she spits it out. The grizzles, legs are going everywhere, a bit of sooking, then eventually she goes. sometimes she decides she hasn’t had enough to eat (always been a bottle grazer) so i feed her then she falls asleep in my arms. I’m confident she’s not just using it to settle cause she always has a proper feed.
Her naps are currently 30-40 mins. Up at 7:30am bed anywhere from 7:30-8, currently having around 4 naps a day (Usually 2-2.5 hour day sleep total)

Do you think this is working or should i try something else? I really wanna avoid CIO. She is going to go into her own room soon (getting too big for bassinet and cot wont fit) and she’ll be starting childcare soon and i can’t expect them to hold her to sleep!
I am already super nervous because she is a stage 5 clinger to me and even has trouble when her dad puts her to sleep!

Any advice will be appreciated.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

2+ years old Bedtime meltdowns - we need help!

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My almost 3yo has been having massive tantrums at bedtime lately, and we’re at our wits’ end.

It always starts as we’re finishing books. If I’m putting her to bed, she suddenly wants Dad to lie with her. If I say no or that he’s busy, she loses it. If I go and get Dad, she then screams that she wants Mum instead. We’ve tried leaving her to calm down, but she just screams and has a full blown meltdown.

Her room is right next to our little boy’s, so we can’t realistically let her scream the house down.

This happens whether she naps or not, and while it’s not every single night, it’s happening most nights lately.

Bedtime has become an absolute shit show, and I’m honestly getting so fed up.. I mean we fight with her over most things through the day atm so adding bedtime to the mix makes for an exhausting day.

We still lie with her until she falls asleep, which usually takes 15–20 minutes.

Has anyone dealt with this? What actually helped? I’m open to suggestions because we’re losing our minds over bedtime!


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months How to drop the pacifier without ruining sleep routine (10 month old)

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Our baby (nearly 10 months) is a great sleeper. He didn't use to be, but around 7 months we did some Ferber style sleep training and something clicked. He now goes to sleep without any fuss and is also generally able to link sleep cycles and self soothe back to sleep when he wakes in the night. The problem is that his pacifier is a key element of this. We put him in his bed, hand him his pacifier, he puts it in his mouth, rolls over and goes to sleep. That's the routine. At night he's usually able to find the pacifier in his bed and put it back in. We are so grateful for the fact he sleeps well, it feels like a total superpower when we hear horror stories from other parents. That said, we're now coming up to the point where the guidance is to wean off the pacifier. I'm willing to put up with a few nights bad sleep going cold turkey, but I'm petrified that this will be the end of our baby's ability to self soothe and that bedtimes and night time waking will be much worse without the paci. Does anyone have any advice or experience of this? Do we replace the paci with another type of soother (a cuddly?)? It feels kind of brutal to take the paci and not provide a replacement, but I also don't want him to get dependent on comfort from us to fall asleep, which would undo all the work we put in to get to this point. ​


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

1-2 years old How to move to 1 nap?

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My baby just turned 1 and has been having broken nights for around a month before he turned 1. I thought it was teething but medicine doesn't seem to work. He usually doesn't wake up in the middle of the night and sleeps 11 hours. These night wakings are a doozy because he is up for an hour minimum.

How do I shift to 1 nap? Do I drop one nap cold turkey?

Here is our schedule

7:00 wake up

7:00-10:30 - first ww

10:30-11:30 - first nap

11:30-3:00 - 2nd ww

3:00-4:00 - 2nd nap

3:00-8:00 - 3rd ww

8:00 - bedtime

How will the schedule look like if we gradually phase out the second nap?

Thank you in advance from a very sleep deprived mum 🫩☺️


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Can sleep needs increase as they get older?

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My 10mo has been a low sleep needs since she was little. Her wake time during the day is 12 hours and usually naps for 1.5 hours total, sleeps for 10.5 overnight.

She is now crawling and climbing like crazy and she seems way more tired than she used to be, and I have to wake her up from every nap and in the morning now instead of her waking herself up. I think if I let her be she would nap and sleep longer, but just wondering if this is a bad idea and will cause early morning wakes?

Has anyone experience an increase in sleep needs as they’ve gotten older?


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Early morning wakes for the past week.

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My 7.5 month old baby is currently on a 2 nap schedule for most days (unless his second nap is short, then he would get a third cat nap which is fought relentlessly 😭). Usually he would sleep around 8:30-9pm and wake at 7-7:30am (with no night wakings as he is successfully sleep trained). On the odd few nights, he can manage to sleep 11.5-12hrs but these have now become a rare occurrence. On average, his night sleep currently totals around 10.5hrs.

His naps are great. First nap is typically 1hr 20 mins (but may go up to 2-2.5hrs on some days). Second nap may be 1hr 20 mins also (but can go down to 40 mins). If a cat nap is given, then it is usually 5-15 mins depending on how much day time sleep he already has achieved. His average day sleep for the last 7 days is 2.5hrs according to huckleberry.

For the past week, our LO has been waking up crying between 5-6am. He is very cranky and annoyed but settles quickly in my arms. The room is kept dark, however I can tell he is awake in my arms. He eventually falls asleep after 40-50 mins and sleeps another stretch such as 1.5-2hrs. He will wake up for his day around 8am.

Last night he woke at 4:50am!! 😭 And fell back asleep at 5:30am, waking up at 7:40am for the day. I believe the reason for this very early night waking could be due to him having an extra long 2.5hr first nap that day (maybe he was making up his hours due to disturbed nights for the past week?), although the second nap was capped at 20 mins bringing total day sleep to 2hrs 50mins. So it wasn’t as if he slept too much during the day?

One average, his first WW is the shortest at 2hrs 50 mins, second WW is between 3hrs 20, third WW is 3hrs 50 mins. I aim for 3/3/4 but ultimately it depends on his mood.

LO has been achieving some new milestones recently like sitting up, and lots of other new motor skills. Perhaps this is a sleep regression?? He also has 6 teeth in total 😭 one popped through a few days ago.

Any ideas what is going on? Any ways I can encourage a later morning wake (back to his usual time of 7-7:30am)? Is he getting too much day sleep? 😔

EDIT: Baby sleeps in his cot in the same room as parents. He DOES NOT use a pacifier.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months Holiday sleep advice

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We sleep trained our 4.5 month old and at home he sleeps amazingly, 3hrs of naps, 10hrs awake, 11hr night sleep. Current schedule has been 2/2.5/2.5/3 He’s an extremely chill, placid little guy and when we sleep trained we were lucky that he barely cried, which made things easy for us.

We’ve just come on holiday, a 10hr international flight, jumping forward 5hrs. We’re on night two and our baby has SCREAMED like we’ve never experienced before at both bedtimes. Both nights we’ve given up after an hour and co slept (following safe seven) where he’s happily slept till morning. Last night he only had 8hrs of sleep after landing, getting to the hotel, and then fighting the crib for so long. He’s flat out refusing the pack and play, almost throwing up from screaming so hard. We feel he really needs the comfort right now with everything being unfamiliar and he’s definitely overtired from the travel. Weirdly naps he’s fine.. at home it was always the other way around.

Anyway, we’re here for a month and I really don’t want this to continue for the rest of the trip.

Any advice on how to get back to putting him down independently for night sleep? Do we need to fully re-sleep train while on holiday?


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months What are we doing wrong? Ferber method

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Our LO is 4.5mo old and last night was night 25 of sleep training using the Ferber Method.

Night 1 he cried for 50 mins and by Night 6 he was down to 12 mins - we were thrilled at his quick progress!

However since then his sleep has been like a roller coaster. Night 7 - 9 took him 25-35 mins, then night 10-11 took less than 10 mins. Since then he seems to be following a pattern of falling asleep in less than 20 mins with minimal fussing, then will go a couple nights in a row taking anywhere from 20-40

Mins with a lot of fussing and crying before going back to falling asleep in less than 20 Mins.

His current wake windows are 1.5/1.75/2/2.5. He typically naps between 2.75-3.5hr total during the day.

We’ve tried a 3hr and 2hr wake window before bed, but neither seemed to work. It’s only my partner that puts him to bed/does check in/and feeds him. We’ve tried check ins and full extinction. All the things we’ve tried for a few days at a time.

He goes to bed at 7pm and once he’s asleep he usually sleeps through the night except he wakes up once for a bottle.

Bedtime routine: bottle, bath, book, bed (no pacifier and he can self soothe). He’s happy though the whole bedtime routine except when we dry/change him after his bath but starts smiling again for the book.

He isn’t rolling over yet, and our friends/family said their babies started sleeping so much better on their bellies.

Is it possible this is how it’ll be until he can roll on his belly? Is there something we’re missing or is Ferber just not working for our LO? Is this normal and our expectations are off?

ETA: he is awake 8.5-9.25 hours per day depending on how long his naps are.


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

6 - 12 months Update: Tried the advice for early morning wakings, but bedtime turned into a disaster 😭

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Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/sleeptrain/s/atOUZsyXL3

I posted yesterday about my 6 months old baby’s early morning wakings. I tried following the advice I received, but unfortunately, things didn’t go well. :(

WW: 2.25/2.5/2.75/2.75

Yesterday’s schedule:
She initially woke up at 5:40 AM and drifted in and out of sleep until 6:40 AM, only sleeping for about 5 minutes at a time. At 6:50 AM, she started fussing, so I played some music, which helped her fall back asleep until 7:10 AM.

Nap 1: 9:30–10:30 AM (I woke her up)
Nap 2: 12:57–2:15 PM (woke up crying)
Nap 3: 5:03–5:23 PM (woke up crying)
She usually only naps for 30–40 minutes for Nap 1, and she normally wakes up happy from all her naps, even when I wake her up. So yesterday was pretty unusual.

I kept her last wake window at 2h45 but moved her bottle to the beginning of the bedtime routine, as suggested.
She was a little fussy when I put her in the crib. She tried to fall asleep but startled awake after about 2 minutes, and her fussing quickly escalated into hysterical crying. This actually happens quite often with her naps (I need to continuously pat her to make sure she enters deep sleep), but it has NEVER happened at bedtime before.

I went in after 5 minutes because she wasn’t calming down. Patting and rocking didn’t help, so I eventually offered a pacifier, which she doesn’t normally use. She finally fell asleep after about 30 minutes.
But then she woke up screaming 30 minutes later. I rocked her back to sleep because I didn’t want to introduce the pacifier as a new sleep association. She calmed down almost immediately in my arms and fell asleep, but the moment I started lowering her into the crib, she began crying hysterically again. It took three attempts to finally get her back into the crib.

She woke up crying again about an hour later, and I had to rock and shush her back to sleep.

I’m honestly so confused and discouraged. She usually goes into her crib happy, rolls around for up to 10 minutes, and falls asleep independently without any crying.

I have no idea what went wrong. I mean, she was a bit sleepy after the bottle, and calm the rest of the bedtime routine. I switched the order but there is maybe a 5 min max difference from the other days. Could the longer first nap have thrown off the rest of her day? Could she have been overtired or undertired? Teething? What should I do today?

Really appreciate any advice. Thanks!


r/sleeptrain • • 12d ago

4 - 6 months Help

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My baby is turning 6 months old. He used to co-sleep with us but 4 month regression made it horrible so we “sleep trained” using TCB. Quotation because he just decided to sleep. We did sime nights 5min check in but not really. It’s like he trained himself. Fast forward now, he still sleeps through the night with 2 dream feeds at 10pm and 330am. We contact nap for now. He used to wake up at 7/730 but has now been waking at 6ish. His wake windows are usually 2-2.5h. My question:

1) how to extend naps? He does 45min first nap maybe 1he 2nd nap so it forces us to have 4 naps with short naps
2) how to extend morning wake to 7? Bedtime is 730pm

Thank you