I only CC'd last weekend and her nighttimes were shockingly good after night 1 (she was waking every hour sometimes or every two hours most nights
) and she still feeds at night but she doesn't wake up every hour or so waiting to be rocked.
I found CCing harder in the day because you're wide awake and because I'm incapable of doing anything other than listening to her every move. Also, at night time you KNOW when she's done, in the morning when she starts making noises sometimes complaining but not crying... well with our LO anyway.
She still doesn't get enough sleep in the daytime on MOST days and hence is in a grumpy mood for the afternoon. I don't want to CC in the day as she can put herself to sleep and I don't want to harrass her. Also, doctors say the max you can CC in the day is 1 hour, which is along time, but I always felt IF she did cry for one hour (even with me going in every now and again) then I went in and picked her up it would be traumatic and pointless?
I would ask: do you have a good solid nap routine (timings wise) during the day?
DO you ever try and put her down about 10 to 15 mins after she falls asleep on you?
Do you or have you thought about using a dummy? My baby NEVER took one but for some strange reason I discovered, that when she would only seep on me, and I put her down after 10 mins, she would stir and either resettle or wake up. At that moment I stuck a dummy in her mouth and she would drift off. I could even take the dummy out after another 5 mins or so. This was around the seven month mark.
Now that we've sleep trained her the dummy was soothing for her and for us. I found it made CCing a lot less painful than I imagine it would have been otherwise? I could be wrong but I think it helped.
So my answer is, most babies apparently do one better than the other (day sleep or night sleep) And i think with babies you have to take things easy and keep trying. I went form her ALWAYS sleeping on me for naps, to her being rocked to sleep against me then transitioning to sleeping next to me (up against me) then I would sometimes slowly move away replacing myself with a solid round cushion.
To sometimes repositioning her to her back, to patting her to sleep on her side/front and all sorts before she started sleeping by herself but only when she was in deep sleep to placing a dummy in her mouth and on and on and on and on.
Every stage and step took weeks and I had to cope with her waking up and being in a grump and then being rocked to sleep again (sometimes without success) and just keep trying again and again and new and different things and then a sleep regression or a bout of teething or a something else will throw everything off balance. I hope you and your baby figure it out soon and I hope my response doesn't seem all negative and garbling.
best of luck!
Edit: God! I've just reread this and realised 1. I have a few typos but can't be bothered to find them now and 2. it was tough!!!! I remember trying to cope on 3 - 6 hours of broken sleep a night and a wailing non napping baby who wouldn't stop crying for 40 mins straight for three weeks once (4 month sleep regression!). I can't actually believe she's sleeping in her cot upstairs now as we speak (despite her probably waking before she's done and being in a grump as she will be). I just wanted to say to the first time mums with younger babies that it does get better! Even if you have to resort to CC.
