Sleep training

Yes I’m the same, I won’t sleep train (don’t think I’m mentally strong enough) but other people it’s up to them whatever works for them and their baby! Little lady sleeps in her cot I just pick her up out when needed once she’s sleeping again I put her down, she normally wakes up 4/5 times from 7:30-7:30 x

I’m the same, I’ve tried to leave him a couple minutes and I physically can’t do it 😢 my little one will go to sleep in hit cot if he’s tired I don’t have to settle him but wakes up 3-4 times a night for his dummy/milk etc

our little girl is currently in our bed, has been for about 4 months. She used to sleep 6-6 or 6-4 then 4-6 but now wakes 5 plus times a night, if we put her in the cot she just screams when she wakes until we put her in the bed

Same, I always look at the camera before going in as sometimes (once in a blue moon!) my little one makes a noise and goes back to sleep but most of the time she wants me, and we feed to sleep. Obviously the bigger she gets this may become tricky but I think staying calm and not getting cross with them for wanting you, means they settle quickly and calmly. It’s too upsetting/noisy to leave her, I’m her comfort and she needs me. Plus I think if babies are hungry overnight they’re hungry, I don’t think sleep training should mask it.

when Angel was ill she slept in our bed and it was hard to break that cycle again but after I’d say 3 days of constant up and down in the night she realised I’d just keep putting her back once she was asleep also sounds strange but we did a lot of playtime in her cot ( in the day) so she was happy being in their and didn’t see it as a lonely thing. Also I cut out contact napping (sleeping on us the whole nap) as I found that made it more difficult to put her down. When I’m putting her in her cot I do what I call the flop test 😂 I pick an arm up slightly and drop it if it falls and she doesn’t wake I know I’m all good 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

I won’t be doing it. Some nights my boy sleeps through but most nights he wakes several times.
My first baby was a terrible sleeper and the sleep deprivation nearly broke me but I still couldn’t do sleep training. He learned to sleep better on his own and dropped the night feed/comfort feed and started to sleep through more and more from around 15 months, and was sleeping through every night by 18 months. The only thing we changed was my husband would go in and comfort him if he woke instead of me breastfeeding back to sleep. It won’t be this way forever

I don’t have it in me to spend days, maybe weeks to do it for it to become undone by a cold/bug/teeth/something else… at the moment my little one wakes to feed, she’s 7.5 months and it usually takes about 15 mins and she does it a couple of times. On a bad night it’s more, but they aren’t very often.

Me too. Cannot listen to my girl being upset. She had a bad colic from around 2 months so the only way we could sleep was in our bed where she stayed since. Babies cry for a reason and 10-12 hours is a long period to be left alone.

You have to do what’s right for you and your family. I don’t think anyone would do it unless they were at breaking point

Totally agree with not leaving little one to cry, but I think lately the term sleep training has become synonymous with the CIO method when that’s not always the case. We “sleep trained” when my little boy was 4.5 months but to us that meant trying out different settling techniques, a new feeding and sleep routine, introducing a comforter, moving into a crib for naps etc and we never let him CIO. I think we got lucky that we happened to do it early enough (I was exhausted and needed to!) that he caught on quick and easily transitioned into settling himself but also that it suited his temperament as well (I’ve learned now that gentler methods tend to work better with younger babies so it could be that parents at their wits end without sleep & perhaps returning to work with slightly older babies are left no choice but to do some CIO as a last resort 😔)

great comment. We did the same getting wake windows right, finding a routine that worked and moving her to her own room when we were disturbing each other. Anything with touch and it would send her into a frenzy. We learnt through trying different methods that she hated being rocked and had to be left alone or with minimal verbal reassurance to go to sleep

I have two babies that sleep all night and have never done any sleep training. It absolutely is possible