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Gentle Sleep Training Support

Drowsy but awake does NOT work with my baby

I did cry it out with my first son which I remembered sucked but eventually worked. My second is about to be 5 months and we are starting sleep training but he doesn’t cry when we put him down. Instead, he plays and babbles loudly, for HOURS. I rock him in my arms to the point where he is basically sleeping, arms limp and everything. But the second I put him down, he is wide eyed and smiling, back to kicking his feet, spits out pacifier, sucks on his hands, babble, babble, babble. The longer he goes, the louder he gets. I’ve tried gradual check ins, put pacifier back in, held his hands, shushing, anything and everything to avoid picking him back up, but he is relentless. I start to put him down by 930 and he doesn’t fall asleep until almost midnight, sometimes later. It’s absolutely exhausting. I don’t know how to sleep train this kid, and clearly whatever I did for my first is not working for my second. HELP.