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11:10 pm
March 23, 2011

nycmom

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Hi there. My daughter is going to be a year old mid April. We live in a small nyc apartment and she shares a room with us (not something we can change for now due to layout). She recently has started waking more at night and I have been nursing her back down but this has created a bad habit and likely a sleep association. It's hard to sleep train (have not done that) or let her cry very long because my husband needs his sleep to function at work and gets up very early in the morning. I don't know what to do anymore or how to approach this. I need to break the cycle of nursing her at night and she used to sleep through the night from very early on until about 6 months without a problem. She will occasionally take a pacifier, but only if I remove her from the crib and hold her with the paci in her mouth before putting her down again–then she'll cry for a few minutes but go back to sleep. She doesn't pick up and use any pacis that may be already in her crib. Any suggestions would be helpful.

11:24 pm
March 24, 2011

Debbye

lake arrowhead, CA

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Hi there-

Yes it does sound as if you've got some sleep associtaions on your hands. My recommendations would be to make sure that she’s on a good daytime
schedule with a good bedtime as an overtired baby has a more difficult time
staying asleep at night, and since she’s nursing to sleep at bedtime and
at night time wake ups, then teaching her to fall asleep on her own (and not
while feeding) will help hier learn to self soothe and be able to put hierself to
sleep at bedtime and for night time wakings. There are "no cry" and limited cry methods to helping teach your baby to fall asleep and back to sleep on her own, though any change may bring on some protest. If even a few minutes of crying is too hard on your husband's sleep, perhaps he can try earplugs, or temporarily moving to the couch or another room temporarily?You can also begin on sleep training at a time when your husband has a couple/few days off from work, and thus get throught the first and usually most challenging nights first.

Here is link to a series of articles outlining different sleep training techniques:

http://www.babysleepsite.com/s…..es-part-1/

I wish you the best of luck!!

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