Sleep training

Has anyone considered or successfully sleep trained their baby?? 6 month old waking every hour at night and fighting day time naps. Tempted to purchase just chill mammas 6-9 month course. From a very sleep deprived mumma x

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I bought all her courses for my first child and it worked really well. Following it again for my second but getting on with it a bit earlier this time. If you’re consistent with the plan then change happens quite quickly x

We have! We did Ferber and it honestly took 1 day - he cried for 16 minutes and then 20 minutes and the next day he went down for his naps independently with maybe 5 minutes of whining but no crying and no tears. He now takes longer naps on the day (2 hours for his morning one) and gets himself back to sleep during the night.

It doesn’t completely solve everything as at this age I feel sleep is different every week but we have more good weeks then bad with him sleeping 7-11, 11-4, 4-6/7 and those wakes are because he is hungry. sometimes he might wake between them and cry but usually only a couple minutes then back to sleep.

I’ve heard that when they get older is when you really see the difference because they have the skill to independent sleep.

It’s not for everyone, but it did really work for us! We got rid of the dummy at the same time which was actually surprisingly easy!

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