This poll isn't to cause controversy or debate. But rather I'd like to hear some different perspectives on this topic. Will you be sleep training? Comment below 😊 We're all doing the best we can, I'd like to make an informed decision for my LO!

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no sleep training at all. we bed share and will keep going until he no longer wants to bed share lol

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I just don't think at this stage I can confidently say what I will or won't do in the future. Its so easy to say "I will NEVER use cry it out"...
I said I would never cosleep. I said I would never use a doc-a-tot. I said I would never have the TV on during the day time. I said I would skip purees and go straight to baby led weaning...
You get my point. I will not use cry it out while he's so little. But if we get to, I don't know, 8 months, 10? 12? 18?! And we're struggling.... Then that's a path I will cross then.
Never say never.

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CIO was the only thing that worked for my first. We will try other stuff first but if that’s what works that’s what we ll do again this time

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I don’t know if it’s sleep training but i would put my son in his crib for his naps at like 4 weeks and was sleeping through the night buy 8 weeks. I didn’t move him to his own room until around 5 months (i didn’t want to not have him next to me at night 😩) 
He does cry for a minute when he’s put down for naps. Then he sucks on his thumb to self soothe and he’s out! Soo i don’t know if it counts as the cry it out but i rarely have ever needed to re-enter his room because he would keep crying instead of sleeping.

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I think CIO works obviously, or people wouldn't do it haha. For me personally I just can't bring myself to do it yet because I just wonder if something is causing him to cry hysterically and I just don't know what that is. I have a terrible sleeper but I will keep working on my "subtle sleep training" until I feel that it's getting out of hand. I think some crying is healthy and we don't need to rush in every second they cry. But I also just can't imagine letting him cry to the point where he gets choked up. Maybe he's just too young for anything yet. All my friends are telling me sleep training saved their lives. I just want to find a method that works and isn't quite CIO.

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We currently co-sleep and don't plan on using CIO. I want to start her bedtime in her room (so we can have adult time 😉) and the bring her into our room again for nighttime feedings. For us, it means we can support her emotionally and still have a little time for us

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We do a form of takingcarababies. If she’s fussy when we put her down, we leave her be for 7-10 minutes. 95% of the time, she puts herself to sleep in that time frame. She typically sleeps through the night as wakes with smiles. No clue how we got such a good sleeper and I know our next one will be a little hellion!

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I am planning to do a pick up put down method with my presence and nursing. I need to get my baby into a bigger crib because he just moves to much during sleep and I still need to restrain his arms for him to sleep longer periods. Therefore I decided to do some sort of sleep training from next week.  Never had to do it with my first but with my boy nothing helps I think that only teaching him how to fall asleep on his own can help him to be more calm during sleep. He is hitting himself constatnly on the crib, rolling over and crying and I believe in this case sleep training is better the the current state.

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We co sleep and have the cot (not a next to me crib but a minicot) attached to our kid size bed. 
We did the same with our first son and it worked great. My first son needed my cuddles and attention but I’ve found my second is more calm and content with sleeping in his cot all night. 
I don’t believe in letting babies cry at all. Sometimes my son grumbles but I wait it out and see if he self settles and if he doesn’t then I intervene

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My baby has been a good sleeper since the beginning, and I am eternally grateful for that. But of course, now that she’s been older and has proven that she can sleep through the night without a feeding, if she woke up and fussed I would let her fuss until she fell back asleep. It would normally take about 20 minutes or so, of fussy/crying, but then she would go back to sleep. Only ONE night she wouldn’t sleep, so my husband got up and hung out with her from about 4:30/5-6:45 when I got up for work. But besides that she’s been great (knock on wood). 
I try to follow the guidelines of the Moms On Call books 🙌🏼

This poll isn't to cause controversy or debate. But rather I'd like to hear some different perspectives on this topic. Will you be sleep training? Comment below 😊 We're all doing the best we can, I'd like to make an informed decision for my LO!

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