![]() ![]() '( The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems p. If you’ve ruled everything else out, do this wake-to-sleep technique another three days. If it doesn’t work, you have to reevaluated whether her habitual waking is due to another cause. Do this for three nights in a row….but I recommend that you keep it up for three nights nonetheless. She probably won’t wake up completely, but her little eyes may dart back and forth under her lids, she’ll murmur and move a bit, just as an adult would if you interrupted his deep sleep. Wake-To-Sleep Technique: 'Instead of lying there waiting for her to wake up, set your clock an hour earlier than her habitual waking time and wake her.(This idea comes from The Baby Sleep Solution) He finally stopped waking for that feeding at 20 weeks old. I first reduced the length of the nursing session and then I let him cry-it-out. This worked for me when I was trying to stop the 4/5am feeding with my son when he was between 17-20 weeks old. It may take several days after you have eliminated the feeding, but they should eventually sleep through that feeding time. Remember, your child is just waking out of habit at this point. You can be in the room while your child cries if you don’t want to leave them alone, but don’t pick them up. At this point, I would try to let your child cry. If you bottle feed, try reducing the amount in the bottle by 1/2 ounce each night until you are done to nothing. I would decrease the length of nursing by 2-5 minutes each night until you are down to nothing. Then try reducing the length the third night down to 16 or 15 minutes. So if you are nursing for 20 minutes, only nurse for 18 minutes the next night. Gradually reduce food at the night feeding: if you are breastfeeding, you will reduce the length of your nursing session.This process takes a lot longer, but I have heard from other moms that this method has worked from them. Then try to increase the time by 15 minute again so that you try to hold her out until 1:30am and so on. Do this for several days until she starts to wake at 1:15am instead of 1:00am. Sometimes the baby will fall asleep on her own and not even need the feeding, but if she is still awake and it is 1:15am feed her. You can do this by rocking her, giving her a pacifier, patting her on the back or tummy while in her crib, holding her in a the rocking chair. Lengthen the time between night feedings: So if your baby has been waking at 1am, you could try to hold her out until 1:15am.Other Methods to Eliminate a nighttime feeding Here is what my son’s nighttime sleep looked like after sleep training (CIO) to eliminate the 1pm feeding (6-8 weeks old) : 7am Wakes & Nurse- this is the official start to our day and I make sure to keep him up after this feeding.4-5 am Wakes & Nurse & Right Back to Bed.10pm Nurse & Right Back to Bed for the Night.Here is what my son’s nighttime sleep looked like prior to sleep training (CIO) to eliminate the 1pm feeding (6-8 weeks old): ![]() It is best when they are under two months old or in a growth spurt, to feed them when this occurs. Please note: If you child is waking up at different times every night, that is most likely due to hunger and not habit. Go with your maternal instincts and only eliminate the nighttime feeding if they are physically ready! It would be unrealistic to expect an 8 week old to sleep longer than 9 hours without a feeding and for some babies at that age 8 hours is unrealistic too. If you child is 8 weeks old, he should be able to go 6-8 hours at night without a feeding. NEVER eliminate a feeding before your child is ready. I was practical and decided to only eliminate the first middle of the night feeding because I knew he was physically ready to go a longer stretch at night between feedings. It took about a week, but at the end of a week, my son was no longer waking around 1am. My husband I decided to do the Cry-It-Out method with my son. I knew that between 6-8 weeks old he could sleep for at least 6-8 hours a stretch at this age (see my post on sleep requirements). According to the Book The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems a “child who wakes habitually doesn’t need more food unless she’s going through a growth spurt (p.191).” I know that when my son was between 6-8 weeks old he was waking at up around 1am every night.
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