Sleep Training

So my 3 month old sleeps well when swaddled and goes to sleep in my arms around 7:30pm with the help of a paci. When he is asleep he usually spits it out. We wake him at 10 for a bottle and go through the same ritual above to get him down for the night. Starting this week he has been waking up around 2am and crying looking for a paci.  I have been going in to check on him and put it in his month. Last night he lost it 10 times so I got up 10 times to get him to continue to sleep. I know he is eating well and getting plenty. When I wake him at 6am for a bottle he doesn't take a full bottle most days, including this morning.

So do I need to let him cry it out a little while to get him to learn to self soothe his way back to sleep or is it too early? I would check on him to make sure he isn't too hot/cold, wet/dirty diaper, of course.   He is in a crib in his own room so getting up to do a paci a dozen times a night is getting old. 

HELP! Any suggestions would be great!~

Peyton

        

 

I don't think it's too early for CIO to teach him how to sleep without his paci. You can either take it away all together, or offer it to him after his bottle/night time routine, and then leave him to figure out any night wakings that don't require a feed.

Also - I am curious why you would wake to feed at 6am? I get the 10pm 'dream feed', but I would let baby wake for any feeds after that.

Hi Tanya,

We use the Babywise schedule to feed during the day so he has an established eating pattern.  Until last week he would gulp down a 6 oz bottle as soon as he woke up but now he just eats 3-4 ounces.  I am working right now- waiting to be laid off soon, so my husband and I take turns getting up at 6 and feeding him while the other gets ready for work.  That way we get to feed him and play with him a little before we drop him off at the sitters.  He usually goes back to sleep around 7:30 and wakes up starving around 10 for another bottle.  We try to do a 6am, 10am 2pm, 6pm and 10pm feeding schedule.  Most of the time he eats a good size bottle at these times but if he doesn't I don't sweat it.  Since we started this particular schedule he has only gotten hungry before the next 4 hour feed once or twice and we just give him a bottle early.  It works for us!