5 month old getting worse at sleeping every night

Ferber is entirely unsuccessful: baby will literally cry unabated for hours

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Not sure if this is gonna be useful, but this is my experience - we bought graco dream glider ($180), it’s an automatic rocking bassinet . And we set it in a mild rocking movement and sleep the baby in it - both my kids picked up good sleeping rhythm . I also need to tell you , we are from India and are used to co sleeping with babies - so once the baby got used to their sleep cycle we started sleeping them with us in our bed. This for me was life saver

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5 months is getting old for it, but if there was a house fire, the first thing we’d grab after our kids is the SNOO.

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5 months is on the early side for Ferber. Maybe they’re not ready. Longest we went with this method was just over an hour. Probably took 5 days for the process to start working. Another thought- I’ll vouch for the taking cara babies course. I thought it was crazy to spend the money on something I thought we could get for free elsewhere, but was happy with the course. End of the day you can’t put a price on a full nights sleep.

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Taking cara babies saved our sanity this summer.

Feed, change diaper, give pacifier, swaddle, nose machine, ceiling fan on low. These were golden for me.

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Snoo + white noise machine on 65db. Still, all kids are different (and there’s NOTHING wrong with them). My kids didn’t sleep the night until 6 months (and were horrible sleepers until then). They were both pre-snoo and some of the great noise machines (we just used the iPad which apparently doesn’t get loud enough). Eventually at 6 months we did modified cry it out, but realistically 5 months your kiddo just may not be ready. And scotch. Lots of scotch.

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Stop this method? Give your child the attention they need. Move past unrealistic goals of them sleeping through the night.

“Give your child the attention they need”—Dr. Ferber has about 1000 times more experience with this than PwC1. It may not work for you now, but heartily recommend the advice of the nation’s leading pediatric sleep expert over “moving past unrealistic goals” which are indeed entirely realistic and indeed is a normal sleep pattern for beings of our species.

I agree you may need to give it a break but how many nights have you done it in a row?

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