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It seems to be the kid help day - first eating and now sleeping. 
So R is 6 1/2 months. For probably 3-4 weeks we've been letting him cry for up to 20 minutes at nap and bed if we know he's tired. Like he falls asleep in our arms but wakes up as soon as we put him down. We've also been doing a better job of making sure he's not already asleep when we put him down. He's eating about every 3 hours during the day in 6-8oz bottles but still has no interest in any kind of food, which is fine.
So my ped told me that we could try to get him to sleep through the night by letting him cry for a little bit when he wakes up in the middle of the night and seeing if he'll go back to sleep on his own. She said if we felt like he still needed one night bottle that was fine, but no more then that. So that is what we've been doing and its ben working pretty well. He goes down around 6 and then usually wakes up between 10-2 (I know thats a big window) and then sleeps until 6.
So last night he woke up at 9 screaming bloody murder, after 5 minutes it was obvious he was not going to go back to sleep so we went and got him. DH tried to calm him, I tried to calm him but nothing got him to stop screaming until we gave him his bottle. Then he woke up again at 3:15 and I fed him again.
So that was a lot of detail for my simple question. Do you think sleep training can cause separation anxiety? His daytime separation anxiety seems to have gotten worse in the last 2 weeks...
So R is 6 1/2 months. For probably 3-4 weeks we've been letting him cry for up to 20 minutes at nap and bed if we know he's tired. Like he falls asleep in our arms but wakes up as soon as we put him down. We've also been doing a better job of making sure he's not already asleep when we put him down. He's eating about every 3 hours during the day in 6-8oz bottles but still has no interest in any kind of food, which is fine.
So my ped told me that we could try to get him to sleep through the night by letting him cry for a little bit when he wakes up in the middle of the night and seeing if he'll go back to sleep on his own. She said if we felt like he still needed one night bottle that was fine, but no more then that. So that is what we've been doing and its ben working pretty well. He goes down around 6 and then usually wakes up between 10-2 (I know thats a big window) and then sleeps until 6.
So last night he woke up at 9 screaming bloody murder, after 5 minutes it was obvious he was not going to go back to sleep so we went and got him. DH tried to calm him, I tried to calm him but nothing got him to stop screaming until we gave him his bottle. Then he woke up again at 3:15 and I fed him again.
So that was a lot of detail for my simple question.
Do you think sleep training can cause separation anxiety? His daytime separation anxiety seems to have gotten worse in the last 2 weeks...
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