Sleep trained but at 9 months now rocked to sleep?

This is why research shows sleep training doesn’t work long term as everytime they go through a change developmental/sickness/holiday ect the routine that previously worked will no longer.

Comforting your baby won’t mess up his sleep. Babies learn all on their own to link cycles when their developmental ready and again studies show that providing comfort actually aids this x

Your child’s needs with regard to sleep will keep changing throughout the next few years. I would just respond by giving him whatever he needs at the time. Supporting your child with sleep does not create “bad habits.”

This happened to us sleep trained at 5 months worked great until 8 month sleep regression. After that if he does wake up at night we have to rock him back to sleep which doesn’t take long but I just can’t sleep train again. He will scream cry i think it gets harder as they get older at least for my child it didn’t work again. He’s strong willed lol but it has worked for others I just didn’t bother to continue. He’s still a great napper and sleeper minus sleep regression, teething, sickness etc.

I love this response :) I agree. And they’re only little once. I promise, I know we’ll all look back and miss the days we were able to rock them/cuddle with them to sleep. It goes by so fast!

Curious too, how do you transfer your daughter to the crib without waking her? I need help on this lol

I sleep trained my first child at 9 months. It worked until she got really bad tonsillitis at 20 months. Shes now 4 years old and will not fall asleep on her own. I’ve had to sit by her bed & stroke her head until she fall asleep since she was 20 months old! (She doesn’t even sleep through the night!!) If she needs me I will be there by her bed every single night until she is 18 if I have to!!

I think we all love the idea of our babies falling to sleep clam and independently and then sleeping all night long. The reality is this rarely happens. Especially as others have said, when they go through varying development stages, their sleep is often the first thing to change.
I will always give my baby what she needs at that moment. I can’t ever see myself not wanting her to come cuddle me in bed if she feels she needs that comfort from her parents. 8 months, 2, or 6. If she needs a cuddle from mum to feel safe enough to sleep, that’s exactly what she will get.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m incredibly sleep deprived but that won’t last forever. Just like her wanting cuddles won’t either.