Re: Favorite sleep advice?

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, i do sleep consultations via phone or skype for these kinds of issues. I dont' recommend any particular book b/c they are just not individualized enough. you're welcome to talk to me off list if you like. my contact info is below. Beebe, M.Ed., IBCLC Lactation Consultant/Postpartum Doula www.second9months.comwww.facebook.com/thesecond9months.--- Subject: Favorite sleep advice?To: Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 1:42 PM

Quick question: What is everyone's favorite breastfeeding friendly sleep book?

I very rarely have moms with this issue, but I have a 5 month old who still wakes every 2 hours at night and mom is getting very frazzled. They already co-bed and feed on demand, and this little one only gets breastmilk (Mom does work a couple of times a month doing a 12 hour shift, and when she isn't home he only wakes every 3 hours for dad to feed him mom's milk.) Mom is making plenty of milk and his growth mirrors the WHO chart curve like it was a pre-printed line. Mom is wanting to do some sort of sleep training so she can at least enjoy the 3 hour intervals like dad does. Any recommendations?

Hartfelder IBCLC, RLC

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I've also never found a book I really found terribly helpful, but then honestly

I haven't looked at some of the most recent ones. She's getting pushed from all

sides to feed less often or supplement or, or, or, ... well, everyone knows the

drill. She's determined, but pretty frazzled.

Hartfelder IBCLC, RLC

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wakes every 2 hours at night and mom is getting very frazzled. They already

co-bed and feed on demand, and this little one only gets breastmilk (Mom does

work a couple of times a month doing a 12 hour shift, and when she isn't home he

only wakes every 3 hours for dad to feed him mom's milk.) Mom is making plenty

of milk and his growth mirrors the WHO chart curve like it was a pre-printed

line. Mom is wanting to do some sort of sleep training so she can at least enjoy

the 3 hour intervals like dad does. Any recommendations?

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Hello, .

So many books, and none of them work for every baby, but I do like the gentle ideas to lengthen the time between nighttime nursings in Pantley's The No Cry Sleep Solution.

Dee Kassing

Subject: Favorite sleep advice?To: Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 3:42 PM

Quick question: What is everyone's favorite breastfeeding friendly sleep book?I very rarely have moms with this issue, but I have a 5 month old who still wakes every 2 hours at night and mom is getting very frazzled. They already co-bed and feed on demand, and this little one only gets breastmilk (Mom does work a couple of times a month doing a 12 hour shift, and when she isn't home he only wakes every 3 hours for dad to feed him mom's milk.) Mom is making plenty of milk and his growth mirrors the WHO chart curve like it was a pre-printed line. Mom is wanting to do some sort of sleep training so she can at least enjoy the 3 hour intervals like dad does. Any recommendations? Hartfelder IBCLC, RLC

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I would second Dee's suggestion. Pantley's books have practical, concrete ideas

to help exhausted parents. I find that most sleep books either fall loosely

into two categories: the cry-it-out sleep training type of books or the just

co-sleep and try to view it as a normal, short season of life in the grand

scheme of things. While I vigorously disagree with the cry-it-out camp, I also

have great compassion for utterly exhausted parents who need something more than

just waiting it out. No Cry Sleep Solution is one of the only sleep books that

fits the bill.

Carroll

(who's oldest son often didn't sleep more than an hour at a time in the first 6

months and who was regularly weepy while nursing from having to wake up one more

time.)

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> So many books, and none of them work for every baby, but I do like the gentle

ideas to lengthen the time between nighttime nursings in Pantley's The No Cry

Sleep Solution.

  Dee Kassing

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I like Pantley's " No Cry Sleep Solution " as a starting point. It

talks about establishing consistent routines, and other ways to encourage better

sleep.

I also do phone/skype " transition consults " around sleep and night nursing

issues. My website is www.motherfeeding.com. I use a LLL type approach,

basically talking through the mom's own ideas to help her identify what is and

isn't helping, and offering suggestions accumulated from years or reading and

listening to moms. I do think that one on one problem solving is more helpful

I have to say, though, that 5 months sounds young to me. (Usually I'm working

with moms of toddlers or older babies.) At that age, I'd focus on offering

coping strategies, eduation about sleep patterns and development, and

forward-looking routine development. And on helping her tune out the unhelpful

pressure from others. Sounds like that may be more of a problem than the

nightwaking itself.

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wakes every 2 hours at night and mom is getting very frazzled. They already

co-bed and feed on demand, and this little one only gets breastmilk (Mom does

work a couple of times a month doing a 12 hour shift, and when she isn't home he

only wakes every 3 hours for dad to feed him mom's milk.) Mom is making plenty

of milk and his growth mirrors the WHO chart curve like it was a pre-printed

line. Mom is wanting to do some sort of sleep training so she can at least enjoy

the 3 hour intervals like dad does. Any recommendations?

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