re: Page 6 UPDATE: Baby is 5 months old.. waking up every time we put her down

Nosy MIL are the worst - you have to train them same as the infant

Sounds like she might have reflux or silent reflux. Try elevating the mattress crib a bit.

The problem is that she does not know how to put herself back to sleep when she wakes up. Since you always rock her to sleep, she never learned this skill. Additionally, she falls asleep in your arms and wakes up in the crib so it’s a WTF moment for her.

It sucks for the first 3-4 nights but you have to put her down at least a little bit awake. She’s going to cry. Go in every 5 minutes and reassure her but don’t pick her up. Then start increasing the interval that you go in... 6 min 7 min etc until she’s out. Progress this over days maxing out interval at 10 min but decreasing your interaction. Go from patting to just verbally reassuring her with no touching. Good luck

Sounds like OP is in the same boat my wife and I were in 18 years ago. She made the mistake of right from the start rocking our son to sleep. Problem was he was apparently the world’s lightest sleeper and would wake up the moment the floor creaked in the least after she laid him down in his crib. Before I knew it there he was in the bed with us. We tried the cry it out method. Neither she nor our son did very well with it. In the end (when he was old enough to get out of his bed on his own) we got into a pattern where we’d put him to bed at 8 then we had until usually 11 or so before we’d hear pitter-patter towards our door. For a while it was every night, them most nights, then some nights until finally when he was about 5 it stopped.

Thankfully she was a stay at home mom and I slept through almost all of it. Most times I had no idea he was even there until I got up the next morning.

We had the same problem with our 2 year old. We tried the chiropractor, special colic formula, multiple swings, white noise. Only one thing worked.....cry it out! Occasionally we would go get her if she went what we considered too long. It took about a week to break her of us coming in there every time she cried. Kids are resilient and smart, they know exactly what they are doing. Now she’s 2, has never slept in our bed and puts herself to sleep with ease.

Mrs. Rusty recommends the following:

Try a sleep sack or the merlin suit, also read The Sleep Lady book. Changed our lives.

Just wait until you find out that some Chiros do adjustments on pets too.

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the cry it out method

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This worked for us.

Sometimes nothing works. Sometimes you have one that just won't sleep. Ours didn't start sleeping through the night until 3.5 years old. One breakthrough to get him to actually fall asleep (but not necessarily stay asleep) was (and still is) Zarbee's melatonin gummies. It was a game changer, but I don't know if you should give it to a 6mo.

You can tell who those kids are by the fact they have no brothers or sisters.

I haven't read past the first page, but have you tried or has anyone suggested a weighted sleep sack? We use one for our second boy (he just turned 1 in Feb), and he has slept a lot better than our older boy did. I think we were also a lot tougher on our second as far as letting him cry it out