“Cry it out”

That sounds normal to me. I couldn’t do formal sleep training, it wasn’t right for our family. My boys found their own rhythm in their own time. Both started sleeping through the night around their first birthdays. This season of life when your baby needs you in the middle of the night is short 🤍

I try to do it , like go to the washroom first and let her cry for a couple of minutes. When she wakes up after 3/4 am I don’t have the energy to do it . My husband can’t help out much because he’s a trucker and needs his sleep so it’s myself who does the sleep routines.

I wouldn’t suggest that method! Our babies cry because they need us you should try to comfort your baby instead of letting your baby cry it out

I don’t recommend that. It’s been proven that babies that didn’t get the attention from their parents became more to themselves. It’s sad. Hold your baby

Doctors don't know everything. You do what's best for you, your baby, your family!
He is so young still. So, hold your baby if you feel like it.

Here, we did a softer ferber method twice just because i have no family and baby was waking up every 1/2h. It was really rough.

He got much better at the second time, and I feel like solids helped. But i still feed him to sleep and he wakes up 1x at least, sometimes 2, sometimes 3. And i pick him up ❤️

Don’t do it. As simple as that sounds, don’t do it. we tried once and never again. My son is 2.5 and I help him fall asleep but that was my choice. Yes as a toddler there are nights that are tough because his bedtime is screwed because he took a nap but I feel okay with MY decision in not sleep training.

Nope not for me. It goes against my motherly instinct to let my kid cry. Don’t let dr’s or anyone else tell you how you should be a mother to your kids. You don’t HAVE to sleep train.

No one is going to convince me it’s better to leave my baby crying and alone, panicking until they learn that no one’s coming for them so they stop :( it breaks my heart to think of it. It’s biologically normal for them to wake up for comfort during the night at this age. The ped told me to do cry it out but respectfully I will not be doing that.

Babies waking in the night is normal. Under 1 it actually helps prevent SIDS.

I'd get myself a new doctor. What they are suggesting is outdated and cruel.

Cry it out teaches baby you aren't gonna come meet their needs so they preserve energy by not crying. It doesn't teach them to self soothe but just to not bother you cos you aren't coming anyway.