Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone has been in my situation. I first started the No Cry methods about 3 months ago when my son was 5months old. He's now 8months old. I stopped doing the suggestions about 4x's 10 days and since then am having trouble starting all over again. We went away, he got sick and had DPT shots. He had a few good nights in the past months, mainly he sleeps at 6:30 pm, I've tried to make it later, with no luck.

He sometimes had 7 hour stretches from 6:30 on and then would maybe wake at 3am for another feed. It seems that everytime we have progress he gets a cold or something interupts.

I have trouble with putting him to bed awake, sometimes he just falls asleep at the breast. I'm trying to figure out how to time this. He never had a really good breastfeeding schedule. We have introduced formula as well, that was a few months ago. I find that having him eat a lot at night hasn't helped much. Maybe the reason why he sleeps so well from 6-midnight.

But help, it's gotten bad again, he wakes every hour. I don't know what to do. My husband can't really help because I'm awake anyway and my husband is more of a basket case with no sleep.

Trouble with the book's suggestions:

I will try and put him down to sleep awake.

I'm having trouble figuring out sleep cries. How long should I listen? I really have a hard time in a small apartment.

AS far as pulling off and breastfeeding. When he cries I will try and put him on the breast and then pull off shortly after, is that the way to do it?

I guess I am sortof answering my own questions, but sometimes I feel like he's just really hungry. Do I just try and cut a breastfeeding session out? It's so hard to start again.

I feel so discouraged. One of the problems I had was that I was writing down everynight the progress, doing a log every night which was good sometimes and bad other times. I became focussed on getting the routine at night down. It's hard though, where does dinner fit in? He knows it's time for sleep after his bath.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm just having trouble figuring out what parts I should use. He's a crib sleeper, he breastfeeds, and he has no problem sleeping the first half, well sortof.

I feel like I know her book inside and out, but I will read it for the 4th time and try again.

Thanks for reading
desperately yours