Sleep Training Baby- 8 months old?

My baby is 8 months old. He started on solid at 6months. Till date, he is up 2 or more times at night to be breastfed. He goes to bed only when he is nursed and is a very light sleeper walkes up at any noise. I am trying to sleep train him but he stands on the crib and cries loudly. Is it too late to train. I am tried and exhausted and sleep deprived. Pls help

You need noise! Get a loud fan or a white noise machine to drown out all the other noises.

In addition, you can train him to go to sleep on his own.
-Put him in his bed asleep.
-Put him in drowsy and pat bottom/rub back and sing or talk to him.
-Put him in drowsy and sing or talk to him.
-Put him in drowsy and be quiet until he fusses, then sing or talk to him.
Gradually get further away and do less and less until you have to do nothing except say "night night" and walk out.
It is okay to have to take a step back if he's not ready to move forward.
There were nights when I was training my girl that I sat in the floor next to her bed for an hour (yes, an HOUR!) just singing her favorites night times songs. But now I just put her in and say "night night" and walk out. She sleeps from 11pm til noon the next day without waking. The work is definitely worth it!!!

It's never too late to train! When he wakes up at night for a feeding, give him a bottle with water in it instead. Once he gets the idea that it's just water and not food, he'll stop trying and stop waking up to eat. Sounds silly, but it actually works!

I sooooo know how you feel! My 11 month old is such a light sleeper! He can hear us roll over in bed. He still wakes up a lot at night.....although we have got him off the bottles except for one at 11:00. I tried sleep training and it really just made him worse, and I felt terrible. All babies are different. It works for some.....but mine screamed non-stop for hours on end when I tried to sleep train. In the end he was just terrified to be in his crib! Good luck....I hope you find something that works...I just remind myself that I have never heard of a 10 year old that still needs his mommy in the middle of the night! :)

let him cry also hes waking up because he expects this. give him a bottle with water he will then realize there isnt a reason to wake up and since its just water it wont interest him. put him in his crib when he starts to cry go back 10 minutes lay him down say time to go to sleep and leave dont delay and then dont go back for 30 min. this is what i did and by a week my son was sleeping on his own. if he cries in the middle of the day or night put your music alittle louder, just enough so you cant hear him

It is never too late!! Try feeding him cereal about an hour before bed---nurse him just before putting him down. Make sure he is dry-----

Iknow this is going to sound hard, but stop allowing him to fall asleep at the breast. Put him down AWAKE. He is going to cry! Make sure he is safe and then leave the room, shut the door and go out and turn up the TV and wait 10 minutes.....then go and check to see if he is crying. NO baby ever died from crying. I know this is hard, but I did it with my third son and now he is 2 1/2 and goes down soooo easy and sleeps through the night.

During the night if he wakes. Go to him, rub his back, and then let him be. You could try a bottle of water....but I would just let him cry it out.....

It is hard, but it works.

Are you feeding him cereal at bedtime? It sounds like he's getting hungry during the night, so you might try cereal and the breast as late as possible and maybe he will sleep a little longer. Also, if he's sleeping a lot during the day, you might want to try to keep him awake more. At 8 months he should have a nap in the morning and a nap in the afternoon. Much more day sleep than that will make him want to stay up at night. Good luck!

too much crying causes a hurnia MY SIS TRIED THAT LETTING HER BABY CRY SO SHE WILL START SLEEPING IT CAUSED A HURNIA THAT THE HOSPITAL HAD TO REMOVE TRY SOME LIGHT MUSIC AND GIVE SOME BABY RICE CEREAL AT 30 MINUTES BEFORE BED IT KEEPS THEM FULLLER THROUGH THE NIGHT

It's not too late. You can start training now, but make sure you get the support of your significant other to help you. You haven't had good rest in 8 months and need help!

I recommend the book "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" by Marc Weissbluth

You don't have to read it cover to cover...there are notes in the intro about which chapters you need to hit first.

What makes it work is that it is flexible (it's okay with many methods...for example: if you want to co-sleep, if you're not ready to cry it out, etc).

What you may find is that you need to lay your baby down earlier (6pm-ish...no later than 8pm) then see what happens.

If he needs to be nursed once or twice a night, then he may really be hungry. If he falls asleep immediately (and isn't trying to play with you) then he probably needs to eat still. Hang in there, he will eventually sleep through.

The book also points out that he may be waking and not really "awake." You may have to let him cry for 10 minutes or so and see if he falls back asleep. It talks about how we biologically tend to wake around 10pm and 2am, for example.

Take a minute to check it out at the library or a bookstore (or order it online). It's helped me and many of my friends with the same issues you're having.

Good luck and get some sleep!!

All babies are different. You just gotta try different things to see what works best. My son is 10 months old and he wakes up 1 or 2 times a night to feed, and sometimes none at all. You kind of have to let them learn. For my son, once the light is turned off, he knows it's bed time.

Waking twice a night at 8 months old is really good! My little man just went down to only twice a night and hes 16 months :)

What about co-sleeping? You will still have to wake, but only long enough to latch the baby and then you can fall back to sleep with him. You don't have to co-sleep all the time either, you can start him in his crib and bring him to bed the first time he wakes up. I have done this since my son was 3 months old and have gotten a pretty good nights sleep since the first week he was born.

There is also a book called the "no-cry sleep solution" that is geared towards breastfed babies and teaching them to fall asleep on thier own without crying.

Basically, when you let them cry, you are punishing them for something they have no control over. Needing help and comfort from you to fall asleep is a real need at his age. Its not like hes being stubborn, he just really needs you. Most babies use something to fall asleep... a pacifier, a bottle, a stuft animal... yours just happens to need to nurse, which is completely healthy and normal.

He may also just really need the extra nourishment durring the night... esspecially if its only twice a night. A habitual waker will wake every 1-2 hours because thats the lenth of thier sleep cycle.

My baby is also brest feeding. This is what worked. He used to sleep in a crib in our room. Not anymore. He sleeps in his own room. I feed him solids the bathe him, followed by a bottle (its the only bottle he takes each day), then rock him just a bit and put him in his crib.
Good luck.