Day 3 sleep training - slept through the night

My girl has never slept through, not once ever in her entire 8 month existence.
She contact napped all naps or in car, and was patted and shh to sleep at night and transferred to cot. 2/3 wake ups a night as a general rule, would end up bringing her into bed.

Night 3 of sleep training and she took herself off to sleep after 10 mins of being in her cot at 7:30, and stayed asleep till 6:15am. I could cry.

Just prior to this we had 2 weeks of 4+ wake ups due to teething (4 at once), there is light at the tunnel

We’re doing space soothing method - down awake but tired, leave if happy for 20 mins then go in shh and pat max 2 mins and leave. If begin crying then timer start for 3mins and go in and shh and pat. First night took 35 mins, two dummy runs.

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Will definitely try that, mama needs her sleep 🙂

Woo! So pleased for you ❤️ we did something similar, 2 weeks now and I can’t believe it. How did you do naps? We are still contact napping but night time is fine. Did you just do the same? I tend to panic as I don’t want him to miss his entire nap 😂 x

we just went all in and did naps too. First naps she woke after 30 mins and I then shhh’d and he took herself off after about 25 mins so granted was almost 2 naps to get a full hour but today three days in she’s linked the morning one and did an hour and needed waking and then on lunch one she’s just linked aswell!!! He will get tired enough and will go back off. I say go for it you could start with morning one ? There’s enough sleep pressure left over for morning one.
How are you doing 2 weeks in? I’m hoping my one off night through isn’t a one off x

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