Moms: No Cry Sleep Solution

shuga_23

I promised myself that I wouldn't get myself worked up about sleep...or lack of. In reading posts on my birth month board some of those moms are so wound up about getting their baby to sleep that I think it backfires on them.

Now...we did decide that we should try something since Abe was still in the co-sleeper and waking every 2 hours to nurse (and not for food). Ferber isn't for us so we tried NCSS. After four nights of getting up every hour I quit last night...at least for a while.

Anyone have any luck with this method?

Tamzin418

I tried this briefly when V was about 2 months old, but I think she was too young for it so I vowed to try again.  I would love to have her be able to get to sleep for naps without out help.  She struggles and cries for naps but goes right to sleep at night when she's swaddled. If she's unswaddled at night I am up every hour or two so we put the swaddle back on.  I am going to try NCSS again, but I feel the same way that you do...I need to get my sleep. So, no, I haven't had any luck with this yet, but I'm hoping to.  I don't want to Ferber or have her cry it out.

MA&CB

I read it but I felt like we did a lot of her suggestions anyway, and we never really buckled down and tried to implement a plan.  Have you tried him in his crib?  I think for us that was what really got him sleeping longer.  Granted I didn't do it until he was a year, but it did have him waking up less and then I night-weaned him in a couple nights.

WildcatPrincess

The only thing I tried from it was the trying to ease the suck to sleep association and it actually did work. She went from comfort sucking for a good half hour after finishing to be done and being unlatched without screaming. Now that she's older she's starting to unlatch herself when she's done and goes into the crib still kind of awake.

The no cry solutions do work, they just take longer and generally more effort. After talking with a bunch of moms who didn't sleep train we decided to not do anything until after the first year because in my mind it was easier to nurse her back to sleep than get up and do whatever they suggest (and I couldn't do any kind of CIO). She started STTN on her own just before her birthday and is slowly giving up nursing to sleep so I never got any further with NCSS.

I do have to agree she slept better after moving her to the crib (at 8 months) in her own room. Though it didn't prevent the 9 month wakeful :P Months 5-9 are a blur, we did a lot of bed sharing so I could just pop the boob out and nurse her. Her sleep was super affected by just about every wonder week. GL!

shuga_23

Megan - I've thought about emailing you to ask what you did.

For the past four nights he has been in his crib. He was waking about 4 or 5 times before 3:00 and after that I would bring him into bed so I could sleep a little bit. Then last night he woke 3 times before 10:00 and I decided I couldn't handle it.

 

cdg0819

We tried it, among other things, and what I noticed is that it got worse before it got better. Hang in there!

kristen80

This isn't the answer you want, but it did nothing for me or my friend who tried it (when Jake and her son were from about 6-11 mos).  I journaled and tried everything under the sun in that book, and finally did Ferber when he was 11 mos. due to him waking every 1-2 hours every.single.freaking.night.  I was SO anti-Ferber and actually thought it was abusive, until I found myself in a situation where I was in a really dark place and my marriage was on the rocks due to lack of sleep and the horrid state of mind it puts you in.  Just know that if you do end up doing Ferber eventually, you're not a bad mom.  Hang in there - you never know, the NCSS may actually work!