sleepyincarolina asked:
i have tried everything to get him to sleep… i have tried letting him cry it out… i have taken the bottle away… but i always give in after an hour or so of crying. I feel bad if i let him cry for more than an hour… but the longest i have gone at letting him cry it out is 2 1/2 hours. That was horrible. Is there any other way? I tried letting him cry it out for about 3 weeks… and he would refuse to go back to sleep without his bottle. he wakes up twice a night… and once in the morning for a bottle. Help me please… i need sleep. lol
ok to answer some of your questions… he eats so much during the day and only takes one nap…. i put oatmeal in his bottle at night and he is completely off the bottle during the day. But before he bed we do have a routine… i give him a bath.. bring him down stairs, we read to him, he eats a jar of fruit, plays a little bit more… then we brush his teeth and put him to bed with a bottle. Which I know is the problem. He associates the bottle with bed. I have tried exhausting him and letting him fall asleep on his own but he just wakes up later and screams it out. I do go in there while he is crying and I’ll soothe him and rub his back and head… but that doesn’t help at all. I so didn’t want to try and let him cry it out… but the retarded doctor told me too. and she makes me mad over alot of things she say to do and not to do. So I did take her advice for the bottle and haven’t tried it since then I am looking for new ideas and will look into the ferber method. thank you
Ok for the people who say I am being cruel… ONE I WAS TRYING TO FOLLOW WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID TO TRY!!! Did you miss that part in my section. I don’t like to let him cry it out and I will never do it again. And I can not put him in my bed because we have associated that my bed is playtime area. We take him before his bath and after his bath he plays on our bed. So that is not going to work. I do go in there and rock him, sing to him, rub his little back and play with his hair… it is a no go…. i was trying to ween him off of the botlle and that worked during the day… which i have replaced with whole milk out of a cup and water. I have tried replacing his formula with water at night… but that doesn’t work either since he doesn’t drink water out of a bottle he drinks it out of a cup. So i have tried everything right now… except this ferber method. So please do not try and say i am cruel…. i was told by the doctor to do this and so i tried it out…even though i didn’t want to
i have tried everything to get him to sleep… i have tried letting him cry it out… i have taken the bottle away… but i always give in after an hour or so of crying. I feel bad if i let him cry for more than an hour… but the longest i have gone at letting him cry it out is 2 1/2 hours. That was horrible. Is there any other way? I tried letting him cry it out for about 3 weeks… and he would refuse to go back to sleep without his bottle. he wakes up twice a night… and once in the morning for a bottle. Help me please… i need sleep. lol
ok to answer some of your questions… he eats so much during the day and only takes one nap…. i put oatmeal in his bottle at night and he is completely off the bottle during the day. But before he bed we do have a routine… i give him a bath.. bring him down stairs, we read to him, he eats a jar of fruit, plays a little bit more… then we brush his teeth and put him to bed with a bottle. Which I know is the problem. He associates the bottle with bed. I have tried exhausting him and letting him fall asleep on his own but he just wakes up later and screams it out. I do go in there while he is crying and I’ll soothe him and rub his back and head… but that doesn’t help at all. I so didn’t want to try and let him cry it out… but the retarded doctor told me too. and she makes me mad over alot of things she say to do and not to do. So I did take her advice for the bottle and haven’t tried it since then I am looking for new ideas and will look into the ferber method. thank you
Ok for the people who say I am being cruel… ONE I WAS TRYING TO FOLLOW WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID TO TRY!!! Did you miss that part in my section. I don’t like to let him cry it out and I will never do it again. And I can not put him in my bed because we have associated that my bed is playtime area. We take him before his bath and after his bath he plays on our bed. So that is not going to work. I do go in there and rock him, sing to him, rub his little back and play with his hair… it is a no go…. i was trying to ween him off of the botlle and that worked during the day… which i have replaced with whole milk out of a cup and water. I have tried replacing his formula with water at night… but that doesn’t work either since he doesn’t drink water out of a bottle he drinks it out of a cup. So i have tried everything right now… except this ferber method. So please do not try and say i am cruel…. i was told by the doctor to do this and so i tried it out…even though i didn’t want to
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