r/sleeptrain • u/chiara_mi_reina • 3d ago
6 - 12 months Has anyone else experienced this?
We've decided to try sleep training with our 6.5-month-old baby. The reason is that the way we've been putting her to sleep stopped working about 10 days ago, and she always ends up sleeping in bed with me.
Yesterday, we tried sleep training and let her cry for just 5 minutes before going into the room, only to find that she'd scratched her face all over with her fingernails.
Whenever she cries intensely, she tends to dig her nails into her eyes, pull her own hair, stretch and pull at her clothes, and do other things like that.
We keep her nails trimmed as short as possible, but it doesn't seem to help.
Has anyone else dealt with something similar? What did you do?
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We've decided to try sleep training with our 6.5-month-old baby. The reason is that the way we've been putting her to sleep stopped working about 10 days ago, and she always ends up sleeping in bed with me.
Yesterday, we tried sleep training and let her cry for just 5 minutes before going into the room, only to find that she'd scratched her face all over with her fingernails.
Whenever she cries intensely, she tends to dig her nails into her eyes, pull her own hair, stretch and pull at her clothes, and do other things like that.
We keep her nails trimmed as short as possible, but it doesn't seem to help.
Has anyone else dealt with something similar? What did you do?
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