Comments on: Sleep Training Update: Night Weaning!

By: Jody

Jody — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:54:12 +0000

Not once we got the Wubbanub! It’s really easy to grab onto and they catch on putting it in the mouth quickly. Of course, we also had three of them in her crib at once, so that helps!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:34:35 +0000

I am just worried about it derailing the sleep training if we have to go back in to pop it in his mouth a million times a night, he will need to figure out how to do it himself (which he is not nearly there yet) or learn to sleep without it. Did you have a “re-binking” problem with either of your girls?

By: Jody

Jody — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:21:10 +0000

The Wubbanub worked WONDERS. We also have one for our younger daughter, and we just lay her on her belly, lay the Wubbanub on the crib, and pop it in her mouth.

We just weaned Eliza off of the paci a few weeks ago, and it went better than we expected–after crying, “IT BROKE!” when she saw that we’d cut the paci off of the bear, she got over it quickly and now just carries around her two paci-less monkeys and bear as her lovies. We call them “the boys.” Or, in private, the castrati.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:14:39 +0000

I know this was posted a long time ago, but if you are still keeping up with these posts– did you find that the paci interfered with sleep training at all? Did the little monkey wubbanub thing help her be able to put it in herself? My son is about 5.5 months, we, like you, did ass backwards… bed time first, worked great, now night weaning, but using Ferber’s actual approach (pushing feedings up with check ins) rather than backwards. Anyways, Ferber says ditch the paci, but I am scared and want to keep it… how’d it work for you?

Thanks!

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By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:09:42 +0000

First, let me say that I love the title of this post (the reference to Dr. Strangelove). I’m drowning in naptime and early wakeup hell here, so I was trying to find more information about doing checks during nap training. My boy is older than your LO at the time you wrote this (10 months) and the whole schedule is just thrown off.. anyway, thanks for being here

By: rocketgirlsf

rocketgirlsf — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:35:13 +0000

We did the night weaning after we sleep-trained her, and for us it worked well because she wouldn’t fall asleep on her own at all. We followed the book’s advice and eliminated small feedings (<3 oz), and gradually reduced the other feedings by an oz each. We also did dream feeds an hour before her usual wakeups–the trick is, if she wakes up before the dream feed, do check-ins until she falls back asleep, and then wake her up ten minutes later. It sounds weird, but it gives her the signal that YOU decide when she eats. Any time she wakes up you risk having to do check-ins, but she'll fall asleep faster every time (at least ours did). It was tough but within a week she was sleeping through the night! When she's teething or not feeling well we usually have a feeding at around 11 PMish, but other than that, it's been down-at-7, up-at-7! Good luck!

By: Haelim

Haelim — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:04:45 +0000

Thank you so much for posting on this!! i’ve been reading the book and had searched for anyone who had written about their experience when i came across your blog. My daughter is currently one week away from being 4 months old… we’ve started training her about a few days ago.. and so far it’s been going well, she goes down easily at night but wakes up frequently than before.. (she used to be able to sleep 4 hours in one go the first chunk of the night but not anymore) she wakes up every 2 hours and then after 2 am she wakes up every hour.. she cries a bit and settles down within half hour but she still wakes up each time.. did you have that experience with your daughter? also.. we haven’t night weaned her yet… how did you feed her while you were still feeding her throughout the night? I’m debating feeding her an hour earlier than her normal feeding times like the book suggests.. i tried dreamfeeding her one night.. at 10 pm but it went horribly.. she woke up when i picked her up from her crib and was crying after i put her down… she’s supposed to sleep-eat through that right? anyway… sorry this comment is so long but if you have any advice, i’d love to hear from you!!! thanks!!

By: Pia

Pia — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:16:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience. I waited until my husband went out of town and then did full-on CIO at night. He said he couldn’t have handled the crying. I put her down at 7pm and don’t go in before 5am. If she wakes after that I nurse her and she sleeps a couple hours longer.
It works fast but it’s brutal! Good luck and keep the updates coming…

By: rocketgirlsf

rocketgirlsf — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:10:57 +0000

Alas, no. I am about as crafty as a three-toed sloth with the shakes. I got it as a baby shower gift!