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Just under three weeks from we started sleep training Buster in my own way I have an update.
I’m still not getting a full night’s sleep!
He is getting better and normally only wakes once or twice to hold my hand or get a drink of water but on a couple of nights we have had next to no sleep.
He has on one memorable night slept the full night through from 19:00 to 07:00 and we had to wake him.
I am hopeful this week will be the week it clicks!
Tags: buster, guest bed, sleep training
Tonight is night three of trying to get Buster to sleep alone in his own room. Before starting nursery in September he was sleeping alone but as soon as he began school it all went to pot.
Every night starts the same where he goes to sleep in his own bed and then wakes up and runs in beside me and ends up trying to strange sorry hug me all night. He ends up following us round the bed and most of the night kicks either me or MrR in the back and we end up exhausted.
So the plan was to put him into his own room and go cold turkey although without tears if possible as even at 3 1/2 I can’t let him cry. When I realised I would be freezing as I got up to him numerous times we decided to try something else.
My dad brought round a guest bed and now Buster sleeps beside my bed in his own special bed. First night went well- he woke approx 6 times but just to hold my hand. Last night was a disaster and he was awake more than he slept.
Tonight has started ok but who knows what the result will be by morning!
Tags: buster, sleep, sleep training
Buster has always slept beside me from the day he was born, we tried numerous cots, cribs, hammocks etc but none worked and he would only sleep cuddled up to me and often needing to lie on my arm. This was lovely when he was small and we never really pushed it as K had been similar and we finally got her into her own bed around the age of 4!
On the 09th June however Buster wouldn’t sleep and just kept on messing around even though he was tired, after over an hour of lying beside him I gave up and decided sleep training was starting there and then.
I hate listening to mine crying so I knew I would have to do it the slow and hard way and do without sleep for a while.
That first night it took 1 1/2 hours of sitting beside the bed on a beanbag (no crying) before he slept. He woke many times during the night but went back over quickly.
The next couple of nights were similar but on a few I ended up sleeping on the floor on a huge beanbag so he knew I was in the room.
On Sunday Night (the 17th June) he went to sleep with no tears and slept all night and he repeated this on Monday night (the 18th). Wednesday night it took longer for him to go to sleep but he lay and read himself stories before he finally went over.
So in just over a week I think we have come a huge distance, it is still a bit hit and miss but at last I am getting to sleep in my own bed rather than squashed up against a bed rail on a single bed.
well done Buster!
Tags: buster, co-sleeping, no crying, own bed, self settling, sleep, sleep training, sleeping all night
