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Just wondering if anyone has read this book? Did it work for you?
Ive just started reading this in the hope it helps with DS2's sleep issues.
If anyone has any gentle ideas suitable for a 3 month old I'd be grateful too, last night he woke 7 times so I'm becoming a little desperate!
Thanks :)
I read the book and think it has some great ideas in it! I can't say that I really did any of it though as I just such a sucker :rolleyes: LOL DS loves his booby and the his dummy to go to sleep with. He rarely falls asleep on the boob but he does like the dummy so I think that is more of an attachment. From birth he used to wake up every hour for feeding then it gradually went to every 2 hours for months. Then every 3 hours for a few more months. We were co-sleeping and at 8 months put him on a mattress on the floor for a couple of weeks and then down into his own room. He sleeps in there until his 1st feed which is now anywhere between 4-6 hours and then after that he will usually have another feed at some stage. I guess now he will usually only have 2 feeds during the night and that probably only really started at 9.5 -10 months. I always had faith that as he got older he would naturally go longer between wake ups as he naturally had more solids during the day. If the problem isn't feeding than some of the other suggestions may work for you. I thought for a while there that DS was attaching to my boobies! He was touching them heaps as he fell asleep so I desperately wanted him to take a liking to a teddy and I finally found one that he loves. Not sure that is replacing me just yet but I'm still holding out hope on that one. It's good for when I go in there if he has stirred because I tuck it in near him and he can put his hand on it and it seams to get him back to sleep (as does putting the dummy back it). Not sure I've been any help really... I'm a bit all over the place it's been a long day!
I have had a fair bit of success with the NCSS. At best DD sleeps a 9 or 10 hour stretch, but that hasn't happened for a while. On a "bad" night, it's a four hour stretch, then two hourly from there. The average night would be a 7-8 hour stretch with a 2am and 5 am feed. But... we have a pretty haphazard life, and I think if we were a little bit more routine (like didn't drag DD around the country the way we do) it might have stayed a bit better. Sleep now goes in peaks and troughs, but for the most part it's pretty good. I'm happy with it.
Some bits will not apply to you. But there are so many options in there to try. And whatever you do, give it time. Any approach(es) you try will not work instantly. It took me 11 weeks to get from 8-10 wakings per night to me being able to shush my baby from across the room and gt her back to sleep.
Ahhh Audax I thought of you while posting and hoped you would see this thread as I know you used this technique. I'm thinking that I'm lucky ds is having only 2 feeds at night now and dh can can attend to him the rest of the time so I get longer sleeps. The next step for us is to leave the room and go back to our bed after every wake up. At the moment I jump into bed with DS as I love the baby snuggles... I am hopeless..... lol
I have read this book a few times, i read it when bub was little but wasn't really ready to make changes. When i read sections again, i found things that i thought could help us at that time. I haven't had quick successes from the techniques, but over time have set goals and moved towards them. The Pantley P method helped to move away from the all night sucklings without bub getting worked up.
It worked well for us when DS was 3-4 months old. Lasted a month or so with realy good sleep, then the next 'thing' happened. DS had a lot of things... and nothing would have worked anyway. So, it was successful for us. Sort of.
Cherished, that's not hopeless, that's lovely :) There's nothing wrong with doing that per se, and you're right, they do just grow out of it eventually anyway.
Thank you all so much for your replies! I'm certainly not after a "quick fix" and realize that there will be set backs along the way with teething, growth spurts etc but I really do think DS2needs some help with his sleep.
His naps during the day are no more than 30 minutes and generally the longest he goes overnight is just under 2hours.
I do love my baby snuggles as well, but on the seventh wake up it's not so cute lol
Thanks again, it gives me hope that he can learn to sleep better with some gentle help from me!
My dd did the 1.5hrly wakeups for 6 weeks, it started around that age. She settled down on her own, thinking it was just a phase. I can sympathise, it's not easy at all! We were co sleeping and found it was time for her to be in her own bed. She slept much better but was still waking alot, moved her to her own room and she now sleeps through. I think she could smell the milk or at least knew I was right next to her and that the milk was just there.
This was pretty much my experience with it too. It's only been in the last few weeks that I've had the energy/motivation to be really strict with getting DD up at the same time every morning. We've always had the same bedtime, but our days could start any time between 7-11am. She's responded really well to having the same wake up time and has finally been sleeping through for a week now. I don't know if it would have worked earlier, but I know that we were both ready for it now. I think the best thing about Pantley is that there is no guilt if you do choose to do things in your own time.:
I love the book.
I've found it gave me the ability to find a routine they were naturally trying to fall into.
Its definitely the most helpful book I read. I re-read it every so often to refresh, because I find as they get older, the girls sleep patterns seem to alter a bit.
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