Sleep training
Are there any mums who didn’t actively sleep train your little ones? What is there sleep like now?
My LO is 4 months and I typically rock her to sleep. She hasn’t yet learnt to connect her sleep cycles, but she’s been waking up every 45 minutes for many many weeks now, unless she’s sleeping next to me - and then she can have longer stretches of sleep.
Wondering if actively sleep training is worth it?
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I didn’t sleep train, but my baby (now toddler) just started sleeping through the night on her own from around 6m. I still stay on the roll with her until she is asleep, but I don’t mind.
I do did both, whatever it took to get her to sleep. The time she was asleep just naturally increased. In never really co-slept, unless she was ill, but I generally stayed at least partially awake, and would move her to her crib if asleep / well enough.
I didn’t sleep train either of mine. My eldest could put himself to sleep and slept a solid 20:00-08:00 from 8 weeks old. My youngest is 2, and still needs a lot of help to go to sleep, and wakes in the night.
Not gonna lie, it’s been tough. But I remind myself it won’t last forever, and they all get there in their own time. I can understand why people go down the sleep training road, but if I was to do it all again I wouldn’t change my decision. If that’s at all helpful!
I did (and still do) have lullabies playing for her quietly all night. That helped I think.
We didn’t sleep train and my 16 month has been sleeping through the night for the last month. Before that he’d always wake twice a night. During regressions it would be every couple of hours lol! I cuddle him to sleep and then put him down.
Didn’t sleep train and my eldest actually slept through the night straight away he’s three now and still does I used to have to wake him for feeds. My youngest also not sleep trained only 8 weeks and sleeps from about 9pm - 4am as I’ll dream feed him but he goes straight back to bed and I wake him up at 8am due to nursery run for eldest.
I didn’t sleep train mine and he would wake every 1-2hours until around 5/6 months lmao. Started doing around 3 hour stretches from there. Moved him into his own room at around 7 months and he started doing between 5-9 hour stretches, it varies. We still have some bad nights but typically he will wake 1-2times a night now.
Hes breastfed so fed whenever he needs, and held or rocked to sleep and has a dummy.
We did sleep train but not until 15/16 months as we felt (and he showed us signs) that he was able to understand what was happening more. Before that we co slept x
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Sleep training
Are there any mums who didn’t actively sleep train your little ones? What is there sleep like now?
My LO is 4 months and I typically rock her to sleep. She hasn’t yet learnt to connect her sleep cycles, but she’s been waking up every 45 minutes for many many weeks now, unless she’s sleeping next to me - and then she can have longer stretches of sleep.
Wondering if actively sleep training is worth it?
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I know it's not really erased. I know every moment has still shaped who he is and even if he doesn't consciously remember it it has all still imprinted on him but it just kills me that everything up to now, our whole life together so far, just goes??
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