re: Need some more baby sleep help

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Merlin Sleep Suit

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Cry it out. You'll hate yourself for a week and then wonder what to do with all the new sleep you're getting

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It didn't even take a week for us. 3 nights. And the second two weren't even that bad. Wife was completely against it, then one night she cracked and said we could try it. It took a few hours that first night. Went check on him every 10-15-20 minutes. Eventually he went down. Second night was about 20 or so minutes of crying. By the 3rd night, he was sleeping through the night.

I won't pretend like we didn't have our set backs. Nights where he'd just come in bed with us at 1 in the morning. But that was usually when he had an earache coming or something like that.

Since he's been about 5 months old 95% of the time, he sleeps from about 7:30 pm to 7:00 am. There's times on the weekends where he'll sleep until we wake him up. Before that, he was a terror in the sleep department.

How late is too late for cry it out?

Our fourth child still takes two hours of rocking to go down, at 18 months.

Previous three kids were a breeze.

Welcome to parenthood?

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They're lying.

I have no idea why people lie about this shite, but it is the most pervasive parenting lie out there. I have had friends tell me their child sleeps like a rock 12 hours. Should I happen to be at their home for whatever reason, child will not go to sleep easily. "Oh, he usually goes to sleep so easily".

Bull fricking shite.

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My 5 month old sleeps pretty soundly from around 9-5 or 6, and she's been that way from really early on. Some nights she'll wake up around 2 or so if her diaper has gotten particularly full, but normally it's straight sleep. 12 hours of solid sleep is pretty unbelievable to me, and I've been blessed with a good sleeper

We didn't do anything special to make her that way. Some kids are just easier than others in that regard. Our next tone will probably be terrible

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They're lying.

I have no idea why people lie about this shite, but it is the most pervasive parenting lie out there. I have had friends tell me their child sleeps like a rock 12 hours. Should I happen to be at their home for whatever reason, child will not go to sleep easily. "Oh, he usually goes to sleep so easily".

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Our son is 2 1/2 now, but it is true that he'd sleep through the night easily. But if you messed up the schedule, it threw everything out of wack. If my parents came visit, everything would fall apart. He knew they were there and would get fussy if we took him away to go to bed and it was all downhill from there. Or, if we went out to eat that night and got back late, his schedule was off and it was difficult.

If we stayed on schedule, usually no issues unless he was sick. Eat at 6, bath by 7, read books or watch TV in his pajamas until ~7:30. We set a 5 min timer on our phone and let him hit start. When the alarm goes off, he says "sleepy time" and he knows that he get's one more book read by his crib and he goes to sleep. Every once in a while he asks for "more minutes", but we can usually tell him no.

Now there was a tornado warning last week and we got him in our room right after we had set him down. Nothing we could do to get him back down at that point, so he just slept with us.

A lot of good advice in here. We had the same issues until he was about 12 weeks. He was colicky and also had a cows milk allergy. We had to change his formula to Nutramigen and it gets very expensive, but it worked. The routine is absolute key and we do the same thing with him every night. He is 10 months old now and goes to bed at 7:30/7:45 and sleeps til 7:15/7:30 the next morning. It was night and day. Also still sometimes use the gripe water and mylicon. Good luck, it gets better!

Rice cereal in milk. Full belly. Sleep like...well, a baby! :)

My boy is turning 6 months on the 1st. He is a breastfed Baby.

We feed him between 7-720. And put him down between 730-745.

He has been waking up in the bassinet around 3 or 4. He doesn't cry but talks to himself/playing around. It naturally wakes us up. We just sit there listening to him. He will fall asleep about an hour later.

After 3 weeks of that, when he wakes up and starts talking, we put him in our bed where he falls back to sleep in a second. We were pretty tired which is why we caved and put him in our bed.

I am pushing for his crib in his room starting on the 1st. I doubt I win that battle but I am going to try to push it. He is a great baby though. Has never been super fussy at all. It's been a great ride so far besides not sleeping completely through the night.