Will you sleep train your baby

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We sleep trained at 6 weeks old after too many nights of her being up ever hour. But we didn’t use the cry it out method. We took a bunch of things we liked about all of the methods and put them together to see what worked. She was sleeping through the night by 7.5 weeks. 
We started to limit her naps to 2-2.5 hours each during the day. In the evening, we look for her cues that she is tired and once she is displaying them we start bedtime immediately, even if it’s 6pm. We do the same bedtime routine every night. When she was waking up in the middle of the night, we would wait until she cried before we went into her room. If she was just fussing, we didn’t go in. If she cried and it wasn’t feeding time, we would pat her belly and offer a pacifier. Then we would leave the room. We repeated that without picking her up, unless it got to a point where we absolutely needed to. We would then rock her for a minute or so and put her back in in the crib. It took her a week and a half to figure it out and we never did cry it out. Sleep training doesn’t have to be torturous for parents or the baby. Just find what works for you!

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I think it’s important to define “sleep training.” Whether it is “cruel” depends on the age of the baby and what the parents are doing. 
I don’t think babies of a certain age are neurologically able to withstand long bouts of crying unattended, for example. It would be both counterproductive and potentially damaging to “sleep train” with cry-it-out methods. I’d do some research or get trained on science-based methods for helping a baby put themselves back to sleep when their sleep cycles change around 3-4 months. Good luck!

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I don’t think it’s cruel - it’s just not for me at this point

Will you sleep train your baby

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