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If you decide to sleep train I would highly recommend "Solve Your Childs Sleep Problems" by Dr. Richard Ferber. It solved our LO's sleep issues in 3 days.

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Latest post on 03 May 2012 - 15:07

An absolute life saver is the book "The Baby Whisperer" by Tracey Hogg! She is not super hard @ssed like Gina Ford, just really practical at helping you to sort sleeping & feeding issues. And get a routine that you & your baby will be much happier with. You can get it on Amazon. Good Luck!

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The habit has already been created, I doubt it will be harder to break later than trying to do it now to be honest. It depends on your priorities/needs how long you are willing to wait. I didn't sleep train and I co-slept when my baby wanted it. So many people told me I was developing bad habits, needed to "teach" him to self soothe etc or he would never sleep.....blah blah blah. By 12 months he was in his own bed and woke for one feed a night, by 14 months he was fully nightweaned and slept 12 hours without waking. I never sleep-trained or refused to nurse. They do all get there on their own sooner or later if you are willing to give them time. He is now 21 months and we recently went on vacation to NZ, there is a 10 hour time difference so naturally he woke in the night for the first few nights. I went to him and fed him, cuddled him and patted him back to sleep, took him into my bed etc. After 3 nights he slept through again although it took 7 nights when we came back. All this was acceptable to me and preferable to the alternative (CIO training), however to some people having a 7 month old night waking is not acceptable/tolerable and so they feel they need to take steps to rush the process sooner. Its up to you, I just wanted to make the point that its only a "problem" if it is a problem to you. If you are happy with co-sleeping then do it (I wish my baby would still co-sleep I loved it when it worked but he got to a point where he would want to play instead of sleep and slept much better in his own bed) As far as being dependant on your boob for sleep, if that is the issue (over the co-sleeping) then you might want to read the no-cry sleep solution for tips on how to change the pattern without sleep training. My son sleeps with a dummy so that was never the issue for me.

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I am worried that it will be very hard to make him sleep alone later in a few months once my health is better.

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Latest post on 03 May 2012 - 13:19

I guess the question you have to ask is if you barely wake up at night with the current situation, why is it a problem if it continues? If its just because other people are telling you its not ok then is that a good enough reason to put your child through sleep training and forced nightweaning at such a young age?

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My 7 month old cries if I don’t sleep with him and with the breast in his mouth. Everything started like a snow ball. I put him to sleep on his crib at 1 month, he was fine, he would wake up hungry at 2 am and I would feed him formula, I got tired of making formula and pumping since I work full time, so I decided to breastfeed him at 2 am, I started to bring him to my bed to breastfeed him, but that meant that he would wake up more frequent as he would fall asleep on the breast and didn’t drink enough. Anyways, I would put him back in his crib and it was fine. Then, he started to teeth and wake up more frequent so I decided to bring him to breastfeed in my bed and leave him sleeping with me till next day as I have health problems and work full time and I need to rest and sleep properly. I used to put him to sleep at 7-8 pm breastfeeding in my bed till he slept then I would transfer him to his crib till he woke up at around 2 am when he would stay in my bed till morning. However, a few days ago, as soon as I put him in his crib at 8 pm he wakes up and starts crying so hard, or he starts waking up every 30 minutes crying so I have to BF him again, and it continues, but if I leave him in my bed he is fine, so now he is sleeping in my bed all the time and does not want the crib. I don’t know if we are creating a bad habit that will be hard to break later. I would like to sleep train him on his own bed which would mean night weaning, but I have health problems and sleep is very necessary for my recovery, if he sleeps with me I barely wake up at night as he easily breastfeeds. What to do?. Would be hard to break the habit later?

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