Sleep training

We tried the sleep training, but it was a disaster. We held strong and she eventually fell asleep in her crib. And woke an hour later. Again, we did the same thing. Again, she work after an hour. By this time, 4 hours had passed and I was getting really tired. I also felt really bad because we were sleep training her at 6 months, whereas we didn't sleep train my son until he was over a year old. So after she woke again, I just took her to bed with me.

When we used sleep training on my son, it wasn't so bad. He was over a year old and no longer nursing. Both my husband and I were tired of having him sleep with us because he would kick us throughout the night. So we were all ready to have him move to a crib. He cried a lot of the first night, but by the third night, he had accepted that the crib was the place where he'd be sleeping. It's been fairly smooth ever since.

With my daughter, there are a number of issues. She's just over 6 months, so she's still quite young. She's still nursing. She's getting better at eating solids, but it will be a while before she derives a majority of her calories from solids. She's very attached to her soother. And she's got a cold right now. And I hadn't realized that she had a cold, so I got her immunized, so she's suffering from a fever, too. It doesn't sound like now would be a good time to start the sleep training. While I'd really like to get a full nights' sleep, I'm not convinced that I'll get that even if she were sleep trained.

Last night was worse than usual. I went to bed with her at 11pm. She had been napping in her crib. At 1am, my son woke up and was crying. Soothing him took about 30 minutes. Then, another 15 minutes to sooth my daughter back to sleep. I lost track of time at this point because I was so tired, but I woke up another 2 or 3 times between 2-6am. At 6am, my son and my niece woke up and were running around the house. My sister slept over, so she entertained the two older kids and I woke up an hour later at 7. Wow.. that's not a lot of sleep.