Teething after sleep training
We have “successfully” sleep trained I say it in quotations because there’s still many nights he’s up trying to self soothe back to sleep for 15 minutes, but he’s consistently getting 10+ hours at 6 months. But NOW we are teething... do you regress with teething? Do I need to expect more middle of the night wake ups? I don’t want to ignore his cries in my typical sleep training mode if he actually needs me. Thanks!
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Congrats on successfully sleep-training! 10+ hours at 6 months consistently is a feat I would say!
There will be continued sleep regressions throughout the first few years. I saved this chart from a mama coach's IG story which breaks down the different age and developmental milestones that cause sleep regressions. If you follow Wonder Week, they explain what babies experience/learn at what age, and it's a really helpful guide! That said, I do think early teething will affect baby in all sorts of ways, but as they get familiar with it, it will bother them less. Some people give their baby a little Tempra or Tylenol before sleep but I personally avoid giving medication unless really necessarily.
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Thank you Jane! Yes I’m in the boat with you on medication, he JUST had his first dose of tylenol last night!
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Congrats on the successful sleep training! We never experienced extra wakings during teething - he did still have a pacifier that he used to put himself back to sleep and I’m sure he would chomp on that for some relief so not sure if that made any difference or not because I definitely have heard of other babes waking up more. Here’s to hoping your little one isn’t super bothered by those teeth!
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Jane, I LOVE that guide you posted! Its so easy to blame teething for a multitude of things! At Nanit, are collaborating with researchers at CUNY who are looking at the effect of developmental milestones on sleep. We know sleep is disrupted when babies are reaching developmental milestones, but we dont really know why. Are they practising their new skills? Is there something neurological going on? Is their sleep architecture different? We just dont quite know. We do know that these disruptions around milestones are usually short-lived and will likely only last for a few days. All that hard work of sleep training wont be wasted! They will be back sleeping beautifully soon!
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