Hi ladies..
I have been researching through the posts on BW forums for more than 6 months now and started sleep training my DS(17mnths now) using GW method. He had slept though the night ( 7 - 8 hrs) only on few occassions and was mostly rocked to sleep from birth. Using GW, I have managed to teach him a little bit to sleep independently. I am now at the stage where I put him down sleepy but awake and then pat the mattress for him to fall asleep. I started seeing improvements from step 2 itself..when I was putting him down almost asleep and then patting in bed. He was sleeping for 9 hrs at night before waking up, alternating with 1 shhort NW at the max. However over the past week, I have had constant NWs 2 or 3 , with the last 2 nights he woke up for almsot 6 times every 2 hrs or so. I should add here, that hes also used to night feeding, i m working on weaning this at the moment. I had some success with this and I used to feed him only after 5.30 which was pretty close to his wake up time. But suddenly hes become hysterical if he doesnt get a feed when he wakes up in the middle of the night close to 12.30 or 1 am and cries and cries. The milk does seem to staisfy him(around 100-150 ml) but he will still keep getting up every hour or so. It could be his teeth and I am giving him teething meds since yesterday..but I am really not sure if it is his teeth. Hes fine during the day and naps are good (2 - 2.5 hrs).. Do I need to cut down his nap?? Or try a later/earlier bedtime?? Open to suggestions. Thanku so much....
Routine
6.30 - 7.15 - Wake up
8 am - breakfast
9.30 - snack
11.15/11.30 - lunch
12.30 - 3 - nap
3.30 - snack
6.00 - dinner
7.20 - bath and change
7.45 - milk
8.00 - bedtime...i start reading stories and then rocking him for @ 5 - 10 mins , putting him down sleepy and then patting the mattress. On a good night..the entire process takes around 30 mins ..it might stretch to 1 hr if hes not calm enough or needs to burn more energy. So its anytime between 8.30 - 9 pm that he falls asleep.
