I am so happy I found my way to AW sleep cure and that I'll be able to get my baby (and myself) to sleep good at last. So far I have read the English GNS book + read almost all of the English forum + I am now on my second reading of the book.
My baby was born 06.03.20 so she is 5.5 m old. We will probably start the cure when she is 6 m old. I need the time until then to introduce and get her to eat lots of solids.
I have a couple of questions I would like to iron out before starting with the cure, hopefully some more experienced curers can help me
• Living arrangements
We temporarily live in a rental apartment until our home is being renovated and here we only have one bedroom. So far baby has been sleeping with me (mom) in the bedroom (together in big bed) and dad sleeps in the living room (btw there is room for only 1 person to sleep in the living room).
For the cure I have ordered a fold-up wall and big blackout curtain - with these things I will separate baby's crib so she has her own "room" in the bedroom. I have made the bedroom pitch black.
After the first 2 nights where I will stay awake behind the bedroom door (dad will go sleep away in summerhouse), I have to move back to the bedroom (like I said, only room for 1 in the living room).
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• Naps
So far she has been sleeping her naps in the stroller while I walk (in standing stroller she doesn't fall asleep and also usually wakes up when I stop walking).
If I want her to sleep her nap inside at home, I rock her in my arms until she falls asleep and then put her in the bed.
For the past 2-3 months all of her naps have been 30 min exactly.
I know it says in the book that sleep periods that coincide with natural sleep rythms are 5; 20; 45 min and 1.5; 2 & 3 h, however 5 times a day she wakes up exactly after 30 minutes, I can put my watch right after her. Sometimes in her stroller I can get her to move on to next sleepcycle if I rock the stroller hard enough at the right time, but usually that doesn't work and she stays up after her 30 min nap.
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• Schedule
So far her "schedule" is that she wakes up any time between 6.30 - 8.30, is then awake for 1.5 hours and then we go outside for her 30 min nap. Usually she falls asleep in the stroller when I walk/rock within 5-10 minutes.
This we do 5 times a day. Sometimes the first nap she has inside so I could sleep some more aswell.
She goes to night sleep any time between 19-22 depending on when her last nap was.
So there is no schedule at the moment other than that she is awake 1.5 hours and then sleeps 30 min, then again awake 1.5 hours and sleeps 30 min and so on until it's time for night bath and sleep.
At night she wakes up about 6-7 times and I always "put her to sleep" again with giving breastmilk. So I have never really heard her questions at night, because I always immediately "silence" her with the breast.
During the day she eats breastmilk every ~3 hours + I am introducing solids now too. I want her to eat solids on top of BM every meal before I start the cure.
We exercise a lot on her stomach and I try to have lots of social participation.
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I only know I would like night to be 20.00 - 08.00.
If someone has a schedule proposal in mind for us, I would be very interested.
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Looking forward to curing my little one!