Ferberizing!!!

So for the past week or so Owen has been a real stinker when it comes to sleeping. He is not napping the way he normally does and is waking up repeatedly during the night. He is 5 months old and a hearty 18+ lbs so I know he's not starving. He is on a special formula that is more broken down than most so I started to wonder if that was causing him to still need that one night feeding. Mike and I are definitely not used to this!!! Of all the foster children we had and our own two older girls, we haven't dealt with a sleep issue that lasted this long! Savannah was sleeping through the night at about 8 weeks.

So after a particularly bad night on Thursday, I decided enough was enough! I researched sleep training for babies and purchased some normal baby formula. The Ferber method basically says that babies need to learn to fall asleep on their own. It advocates putting babies in their bed awake but sleepy so they learn to fall asleep and soothe themselves. It also recommends a transitional object for the baby to have only when he or she is in bed so the baby associates that object with sleeping and possibly using music or a sleep machine. I decided to throw in my own little step of using the normal formula just in his night bottle to see if it would keep him full longer.

Here is Owen with his froggy (transitional object) and his sleep sheep that makes ocean sounds sleeping like a good baby should!!! :)

I am not sure what the key step here was, but I know that my little man slept 9 straight hours last night which means I did too!!! Victory for Mama!!!