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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #75 on: May 03, 2011, 15:03:34 pm »
Sometimes she'll wake at around 2 briefly but that is normally to do with her getting herself into an awkward position in her cot and needs help getting out but she'll go back to sleep very quickly after that. I dont know much about W2S, is there info somewhere on here that I can read? If I try pu/pd think Ill wait until the weekend!
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #76 on: May 03, 2011, 15:07:21 pm »
I'm sure there's some info maybe in the FAQ or sticky threads? Basically it means waking her a little tiny bit an hour before her usual wake up time. Not fully awake, just enough to make her stir/shift position. The theory is, if she wakes at 5.30am she will be in a deep sleep at 4.30am. By pulling her out of deep sleep, she'll start a new sleep cycle and so 'should' be in a deep sleep again by the time 5.30am rolls around.

How are things going with feeding and solids, are you sure she's not hungry at 5.30?
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #77 on: May 03, 2011, 15:10:58 pm »
And then in theory she should start to stop waking at 5.30 after 3 or 4 nights? Ive found the W2S info. Shes having 4 milk feeds a day and 3 solid meals, shes a very good eater so I dont think shes hungry, she did very well when we dropped the dreamfeed and the night feed. How do I know if its hunger?
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #78 on: May 03, 2011, 15:15:15 pm »
Yeh, W2S would take a few nights to break the habit. If a quick feed would settle her back to sleep, then I'd do it. But I'm speaking as someone who endured 5.30am starts to the day for a long LONG time, so I'd do anything to avoid it.
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #79 on: May 03, 2011, 15:17:59 pm »
I kind of wanted to avoid feeding at night again as she got into a habit of waking for a feed and we broke out of that with pu/pd which was tough. W2S sounds like it might be easier than pu/pd so I might try that.
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #80 on: May 03, 2011, 15:22:05 pm »
Thankyou for your help
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #81 on: May 03, 2011, 15:25:53 pm »
No worries, hope it works for you!
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #82 on: May 03, 2011, 17:42:36 pm »
Thanks. The other thing that I wanted to ask was considering shes just over 8 months old, at nap times and bedtime should I be putting her down and then leaving the room as Im having to stay in there with her until shes asleep because she keeps rolling over and then getting stuck and gets herself worked up. We did have a bit of a regression in that I was having to pick her up to calm her down the last couple of nap times but I havent needed to do that tonight. I would like to be able to put her in her cot and then leave and for her to go to sleep without me being in there.
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #83 on: May 03, 2011, 17:54:49 pm »
I would definitely put her in the cot and leave her. If she starts crying, wait and listen. If it's a mantra cry or 'fussing', just leave her to it, only go in if she is really 'i need you' crying.
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #84 on: May 03, 2011, 18:15:40 pm »
Ok, will do, thanks again
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #85 on: May 07, 2011, 19:20:32 pm »
Hi

Just a quick question. Things haven't been going so great in the sleeping department, I haven't been able to get her to sleep in the afternoon at all for the last two days and I have no idea why.

When I leave her to go sleep on her own and she starts properly crying, so I go back in and settle her in her cot but she starts crying again as soon as I start to leave so I've been staying in there with her as she gets too upset even before I'm out of the room. Do I leave anyway and then go straight back in? I'm not sure what to do
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #86 on: May 07, 2011, 19:30:56 pm »
In that case I would just stay in the room with her. Sit on the floor and don't look at her/engage with her unles she's really crying.
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #87 on: May 07, 2011, 20:01:18 pm »
Ok, Thankyou. I'll give that a go
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #88 on: May 11, 2011, 08:40:26 am »
Hi

I've only just got round to tackling the NW due to my lo getting a bad cold. I haven't done the w2s because she kept changing when she woke, its now around 2.30am. As I said before we got into the habit of co sleeping with her when she was waking at 5.30 and I was going to try and tackle that with w2s but then her wake times kept changing. Then she got a bad cold.

Last night was just awful. She woke at 11.30 and took a couple of times to settle. Then at 2.30am she woke and I spent the next three hours trying to get her to stay asleep in her cot but by 5.30 everyone was so exhausted that I caved and put her in bed with me. There's a bed in her room so we slept there, she was asleep within minutes and slept until 7.45am.

I'm worried that I've taught her that if she persists for three hours then she gets what she wants. Im not sure what else to do. I tried pu/pd but she got completely hysterical so I settled her in my arms then put her in her cot and stroked her head until she went to sleep because I just wanted her to stay in her cot. But then she'd wake up after 1-20 minutes and this went on for 3 hours. Should I just soldier on or do you think I'm doing something wrong? She's just recovered from the cold and is teething but she wasnt snotty or coughing and she'd had pain meds. I just cant cope with more nights like last night!
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Re: Am I the only one with a 7mo who still isnt sttn????
« Reply #89 on: May 11, 2011, 08:44:13 am »
I think you just have to persist with PUPD. YOu only pick up if she is hysterical, then put her straight back down, so most of the time you spend trying to settle her in bed. The trouble with settling her in your arms, is that when she goes into a lighter sleep or realises she is no longer in your arms, she will just wake up again, angry that you put her down. Does that make sense? So although settling in your arms might feel quicker, it may actually be prolonging the process (as you found). YOu need her to calm down in her cot, so that she can replicate it for herself, and so she gets used to the feeling of calming down and going to sleep in her cot.

((((hugs)))) for the rough night.
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