Sleep training

We sleep trained and still feed up to 2 times a night. I wait 10 mins and if she’s still up I know she actually needs us. It depends what your routine is and why you feel the need to sleep train. What are you trying to change? Just my opinion, but if you don’t want your baby to cry at all then I don’t think that sleep training is the right thing for you. I didn’t want her to cry either, but it just got us in an unsustainable situation. I realised it’s what our LO needs to do to go to sleep. You feel awful, like you’re a terrible parent if you’re not trying to help them but she cried longer being rocked. She doesn’t cry a lot now, sometimes still a few mins when it could be up to 5 hours to get her in her cot before, sometimes a bit of fussing but usually she turns over and goes to sleep with no noise more often than not after we found a happy routine that works

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Pick up, put down method works really well as a gentle method. If they’re crying pick them and soothe until they’re calm enough to be put back down and continue self soothing. Repeat for as long as it takes for them to fall asleep, it can take a while to work for some babies.

that’s the name of it! I couldn’t remember. We tried this first but it only make her more agitated