Did you sleep train your baby?

Can’t imagine letting my babies cry it out. It would break my heart. They sleep with us most of the time. 🤍

No. They’re only little once. As annoying as it is being squished at night, those cuddles don’t last forever.

I co slept with my son from 9 months - 2 years old when he was really struggling with separation anxiety. Now he sleeps in his own room at 3 years old ❤️

I have a 12 week old girl, she actually loves to sleep herself so haven’t needed to co sleep yet lol x

No, it’s calculated neglect. The more you respond to their needs the more they’ll trust you and the less they’ll need you.

If you don’t respond to their needs they’ll learn that crying is pointless and a waste of energy and their brain switches to survival mode, which stays with them for the rest of their life. They may appear more independent, but it’s a deep rooted survival instinct to conserve energy and always be ready to go into fight or flight. That rewiring of the brain is how you get emotionally immature adults who can’t cope with normal situations.

Waking 2-3 hourly is normal at this age, especially if you’re not there. The more your mom responds to him each time the more he’ll trust her and the less he’ll panic. He needs to trust his caregivers, not feel alone and vulnerable

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Ferber - started at 9 months - both were sleeping through at 11 months

I did with my 3 year old when he was 1. I would put him into the bed and stay in there until he fell asleep and then if he woke up he’d come in our room and I’d get up and put him back to bed. Stay in there again until he fell asleep. Took about a month and now he’s 3 and sleeps perfectly in his own bed😂 even tho there’s times where I miss it but now that he’s massive I’m good on sleeping with him😂😂 and I’ll do this same sleep method with my second son as well. I think it teaches them that your still gonna be there no matter what. But I never did cry it out I don’t think that works well because they depend on us and we’re their safe place.

No we dont sleep Train and would Never

We also dont co sleep

I made an overview document of methods . Let me know if you want to read it :)

no sleep Training comes with soooooo many benefits for your Baby!

I envy sleep training parents. I could never do it but to be able to get desirable results is pretty nice. I just accepted sleep for what it was. At some point, it doesn't even matter anymore and they sleep perfectly fine.

I did gentle training, no crying. She definitely fussy cry for 1 minute tops, but as soon as it escalated to real cry I went it and calmed her. It was definitely rough but worth it. Now she sleeps 7-7 since she was 6 months

Never sleep trained, my first woke in the night once per night until 19 months old then slept through. Now 3 and occasionally wakes up but just needs a cuddle to go back to sleep.. they’re not meant to be able to settle themselves or sleep all night really. It’s something we can do as adults but I’d never expect my children to do that. Leaving them to cry isn’t an option for me. One thing I have always done though is kept them in their room and their bed. My toddler knows she can’t sleep in our bed, and if she does wake in the night or too early in the morning she stays in her room with me until it’s past 6am in the dark

Never, only co-slept and with our 2nd if we need to co-sleep because of the regression then we plan on re-arranging the room and getting a 2nd bed

We coslept with all 3 of our kids. Now they sleep in their own beds and most nights end up in our bed around 2-3 in the morning

At first I had her bassinet next to our bed, then I had her in the bed. Now she’s in her crib next to our bed. She’s okay with sleeping alone and has her bedtime