I know it is wrong to compare your kids, but my two and a half year old started sleeping through the night at 10 months of age. My 11 month old will be 12 months in 20 days and he is still waking up every 3 hours during the night. I decided last night that enough was enough and I was going to sleep train my child.
The problem with my baby is that he throws up when he gets really upset. He does it on 45 minute commutes, he does it when a stranger holds him, and he does it when you try to get him to sleep on his own. I decided last night to let him throw up and I decided to let him sleep in his throw up. I put him to bed at 8pm and by 8:10pm he had thrown up and by 8:30pm he had fallen sleep with his head upright, leaning against the wall of his bed. He then proceeded to wake up at 11:30pm and 3pm. At 11:30pm I tried to feed him and helped him go back to sleep. At 3pm I let him cry himself back to sleep, which took about 10 minutes. This morning he woke up at 6am and he was a perfectly happy child all day. Overall I think the night went quite well. The only problem was that my two and half year old woke up at all the times the baby woke up and he was very concerned that I was letting his brother cry.
So tonight I left the older one with his grandparents and I am on night two of my sleep training. I put the baby to bed at 8:10 and he cried until only 8:20 and he didn't throw up! The sleep training appears to be working.
Kari Ann Hong, DDS
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Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
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