We are on day 3 of 12 Hours by 12 weeks, I started a few weeks late but this baby girl should be sleep trained in 2 weeks! I was doing baby wise but it was really hard to consistently let my baby girl cry it out for up to 40-50 mins! I would be on the chronicles of a Babywise mom blog all the time trying to figure things out, while her blog was helpful I just felt like I needed to do something else. My friend from church told me about this book and I love it soo much more! It is straight and to the point and tells you exactly what to do. And even better....when you lay your baby to sleep awake after 5 mins of crying you go in rub their tummy or do other things to let your baby know you are right there, as soon as she calms down you leave and just repeat until she falls asleep, we started doing this yesterday instead of the Babywise method she has only cried 15 mins max and then falls asleep! Way better!
We are on Day three on working out daytime schedule and so far she has been great at waking up at the time I want her to in the morning and feeding at her scheduled feeding times! Hopefully next week we will eliminate her 5:00 am feeding and we will have a 12 hour sleeper at night!
1 comments:
Wow!! I'm so glad you are finding success... I've never been a BabyWise mom, but I know a lot of women who have been happy with it. I think this book sounds better, especially with the methods used to put the baby to bed, I can't let a newborn cry it out for a while either. I like that they have you rub her back or tummy or something which teaches her effective ways to self soothe (not that she can rub her tummy, but she can learn the way it feels to lie down and relax enough to sleep) and then you leave before her little eyes close so she doesn't feel like getting upset. I like it.
I think that a bit of crying it out has its place after all that you can do and when they are older (like after 1 year) and if there is a consistent problem but in my experience it's better to be their partner in learning to fall asleep on their own, instead of trying to leave them all alone to figure it out in a scary dark room... :) Sounds like a great book!!
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