Teaching your baby to STTN?

ah should is hard with babies. I wouldnt expect a 5 mth old to sleep all night, i might think an 8 mth old could but wouldnt be surprised if not. by 12 mths most kids seem to sleep thru but i know thats not with all kids either tho. I dont like CC or CIO, especially not in the wee small hours when it can be cold and dark and quiet...(scary for some adults let alone kids).

Pfft.....to plunket.....

Each baby is so different.

My trick is to have a sleep in on the weekend if your DH is kind. I don't make mine get up during the week cause he's the breadwinner. Also going to bed earlier definitely does help.

Oh yeah LOL Tastic....same with my 5yo LMAO who used to "STTN" at 8 weeks old.....

Edited by Aliasmum

Okay so there is a chance it will still happen without me having to do anything as such. I was worried that it was going to be a habit I was going to have to break at some stage and thought it would be easier to do it now than in 6mths time??

and wow what's with all the lurkers that read and never post! lol

I agree with the others, all babies are different! My son used to STTN about half the time until a month ago (when we went on holiday, then went on holiday again, then got sick ). If he woke and wanted milk I'd feed him, it didn't seem to make any difference to wheher he slept through the next night or not.

I think they just do it when they are ready.

it is hard being so tired!

Jake was STTN regularly by 10 weeks.
At about 5 weeks he decided he wouldn't go back down after his 12pm feed til 3am but after 1-2 nights of that I'd had enough so put him back to bed and let him cry (which was all it was - he never got distressed) and after a max of 8 minutes the first night he was asleep til his next feed and after the 2nd night doing that he went down like a dream. I'm aware there are people that wouldn't agree but just for the record I'm sharing what I did so please don't bag it!
I used Babywise with him and will do it again with Tyler. Jakes still a great little sleeper unless hes sick.
Anyway different strokes for different folks I think. I get severe depression when I don't get enough sleep - something to do with my serotonin levels so its incredibly important I get my babies sleeping well early on.

Babe, I did the leave for 5 mins thing. I still do, but you know the difference in I'm going to cry to sleep or I'm going to just cry hard out within the first min.

Re the lurkers....maybe they were hoping for the miracle cure LOL

my 4.5 year old has only been sleeping through the night on a rgular basis for the last 10 months. I saw every man and his dog about Jakes "problem" (it was really my problem, not his, since he didn't seem upset about it, lol) and most of the professionals said that CIO is stressfull on everyone and kids just aren't really hardwired to sTTN till they reach almost school age, so I guess that means all children are different. I certainly found that by not getting angry (IE giving in to the fact that I would be woken by him at the very least once, and often for long periods of time) and let him have a drink, cuddle etc mean tless stress and upset all round. Plunet certainly say no they don't need it, but I think under one, yes they do, and over one, if it helps make the gettign up easier to give them a drink, then do it. You have to do what is easiest for your family and you.
Whatever you do, don't "buy into" that societal and coffee group pressure to haev a baby that STTN, it really isn't the be all and end all. And I would think its entierely normal for a 5 ish month old baby to wake at least once during the night and need a feed, too.
If anyone asks (and don't they make you feel bad if the answer is no, they don't sleep through the night??) just nod and whatever. Its not worth hearinghtier story about how their baby STTN by 4 weeks or whateever bullsh*te they are spouting, cos its only going to make you feel worse and less adequite... Yoiua re doing a super job, and this too, shall pass.... xxxx

Edited by fattartsrock

LOL, I'm a lurker - I'd try to formulate a response and couldn't put my words together so I'd leave ...

Um, I think 5 months is pretty early for STTN. Daniel started STTN at about 6-7 months but he had a dreamfeed till about 11-12 months. If he didn't have the DF then we'd definitely feed him during the night. He used a dummy (and yes I know I bagged them in another thread, yes, I'm a hypocrite!), and we had about 6 weeks of DH getting up, sticking the dummy in till he learned to fully STTN. Now if he wakes, we know he's either got an ear infection or will get sick in a few days.

I know lots of mums who have found it's quicker to give them a quick feed than to do the whole getting them back to sleep without a feed palavar, and you need to do what works for you. We're lucky that we have only rarely needed to do CC (I struggle with it but it does work for us) but at that age, I'd do TLC and get DH to help as much as possible.

lol cupptea..

(and sorry about all my typos!!! brain goes faster than fingers and cna't be botherd to edit - only edited before to add in some more)