We are preparing to sleep train in a week or two. We have some commitments that can't be rearranged or we would have started this weekend.
LO is 8 months and very mobile. Crawls like a mad woman, is pulling herself to standing (cruising imminent), and all of this can make settling her in crib tricky.
She currently is rocked to semi-sleep and put into crib in her room. It usually only takes 5 mins of rocking to get her to sleep. We have had issues from birth with short naps. Most are 30, sometimes we make it to 45.
Nighttime is completely different; she is put down drowsy but awake at 7:30 and puts herself to sleep right away. Sometimes she wakes @10 and I feed, rest of the time I dream feed closer to 10:30. She then sleeps until 2 or 3 when I feed again. Sometimes she falls asleep eating, if she does we are able to transfer no problem. If she does not it takes a good 30-60 mins to get her back to sleep and there is no putting her down until she is completely out. She is often awake at 5/5:30 and we struggle to get her to make it until 6:30. These usually don't take as long to get her back to sleep but she usually only stays asleep for 15-30 mins
I have recently discovered that I need to lengthen her A times, and I am hopeful that this may help some with nap (we had a couple days of really good morning nap using a 3 hour A time) So I am currently working to figure out her perfect A time.
What else can I be doing with her over the next week or two to give us as smooth an adjustment as possible? I am both worried and optimistic, and just want to be as prepared as possible for this...
