what do u do if your baby is teething /Ill sleep wise?

[lemondriz]

Dd 10months sleeps relatively well 6-6 with dream feed 11pm have done some sleep training with her after illness ruined her routine . And sometimes needs a little re training if routine gets lost again
But I get confused as to how to handle itusually I would try and feed her back to sleep and if she became very upset or kept waking more than once an hour I get her in bed with me... But then when better sleep re training is always needed as she wants to continue this arrangement....... What does everyone else do in these circumstances???

[lemondriz]

Bump

[notaflamingclue]

I think first of all, you can drop the dream feed at that age. DD was FF and we just reduced by 1oz at a time, until we got to 3oz and then we just ditched it. Presumably if BF you can reduce by a minute at a time?

When DD is ill I still try to stick as closely as possible to routine. Of course it's not always possible, and on very very rare occasions she has slept with me. I'm talking maybe 3 or 4 times in the whole of the last 17 months. Then, as soon as she's better (usually the very next night) we go straight back to the routine. Sometimes she protests - but I think you just have to persevere.

Babies are manipulative, it's how they survive - and I don't mean that in a nasty way. It's just that they evolved to cry when they want something. I think as a parent you have to learn to work out the difference between 'want' and 'need'. If your DD really is very distressed at being left to go to sleep I would say she 'needs' to be near to you. If she's just cross at not getting what she wants, she only 'wants' it. It's pretty clear to me when my DD is genuinely distressed and not just annoyed.