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Post edited 3:35 pm – May 18, 2011 by snara
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We're planning to start sleep training this weekend, using the Ferber check & console method. Currently, our 5-month-old often awakens to feed 1-2 times a night, and most days she wakes up maybe once or twice in addition to those times. 

Our goal isn't so much to reduce the number of night wakings but mainly to teach her to fall asleep on her own without having to be picked up and rocked. 

She typically needs to be held/rocked/patted until asleep for all naps, and at bedtime, and during the night at non-feeding times. 

However, after feeds, she tends to fall back asleep pretty easily. Sometimes, it's due to pacifying, but most times she feeds till she's just full, unlatches herself, and falls asleep. I'm wondering whether I should let her continue to do that during the sleep training, since those are the only times she falls asleep or nearly falls asleep at the breast? Or should I awaken her in order to put her down awake and start the check & console cycle, as prescribed by the method?

Thanks Debbye! Helpful advice, we'll see how it goes, and maybe I'll have more questions after this weekend, or maybe a happy update!