Most interventions have included parent education about normal sleep and sleep cycles, advice to maximise environmental differences between day and night, and strategies to encourage infant self - settling.7 - 10 Strategies included range from the graduated extinction method described above to encouraging parents to
stretch night time feed intervals (in the hope that the infant will self - settle) and encouraging the use of parent - independent sleep cues.
Not exact matches
At
night time they can do as long a
stretch as 3 to 4 hours at a
time and that's often determining with nursing, right or bottle
feeding and that makes sense, right.
Do I do CIO in the
night to get him to drop his
night feeding and
stretch that
time to go from 10 pm - 7 am?
To begin with, you need to
stretch out the
time between her
feedings both during the day and during the
night.
Should your baby be
feeding more often during the
night than during the day, you could wake him up for an extra 1 or 2
feeds during the day
time, to encourage longer
stretches at
night.
What to do about it: You can work on gradually reducing the number of late -
night feedings your baby gets by increasing the size of bedtime
feedings, making sure baby's getting enough to eat all day long, and slowly
stretching the
time between
night -
time feedings.
Although I agree that an infant can become dependent on the breast to fall asleep and yes, once I gently weaned my daughter from
night time feeds at around 10 months she did sleep for longer
stretches but it by no means solved all our sleep «issues» — To say that all healthy infants should be able to STTN at 6 months, is an incredibly discouraging thing to say to moms who then start thinking there is something wrong with their child and in the end let them cry it out because they read articles like this where it worked for one person.
At her site, Professor Ball describes «settling» as «sleeping through a
night time feed for a
stretch of up to 5 hours.»
If your baby vomits from crying, wets the bed during potty training or spits up after a
feeding, changing the crib sheets can take a long
time and really
stretch out your child's wake -
time in the
night or before a sleep period.
(Right after the first
feed of the day is a popular
time to pump, or you could try right after your baby goes down for the first
stretch at
night.)
If you want to try and savor the longer
stretches of sleep for the
night time, you might want to wake her after 4 hours during the day and see if she wants to
feed.