Anyone tried sleep training yet?

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With my first daughter we used extinction at 10 weeks. In retrospect that seems early, but it did work within a few days and she's been an amazing sleeper ever since (she's 2 now). This baby has not been an easy sleeper at all, we actually rented a SNOO when she was 3 weeks old. Sometimes I question whether it's helping much because she's so difficult to soothe that most of the times she wakes up I have to nurse her anyway even if she's not hungry. She won't take a pacifier. Anyway, just curious if anyone has done any sleep training yet since some of the December babies are 12 weeks old now. We're not going to do anything for a few more weeks at least, I still want to see if the SNOO will help and I think we will send the toddler to her grandparents' house for the weekend if we decide to go for it.
I'm not interested in a debate about sleep training or anyone trying to talk me out of it. We can all do our own research and make our own decisions. In my opinion, spending 2 hours every night getting a baby down for bed results in a poorer quality sleep than if they knew how to fall asleep on their own. I don't judge anyone else's sleep choices, I'm just curious about others' experience so far.

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Didn't technically do sleep training but took takingcarababies class and now my daughter only wakes up once a night to eat and goes back to sleep. She now gets close to 12 hours of sleep a night. The 3-5 month bundle is supposed to help with the 4 month sleep regression as well but I have not finished that portion yet.

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I haven’t formally done any kind of sleep training, but I worked pretty hard to establish a very set bed routine and my son sleeps through the night from 8pm-6 or 7am. Occasionally, he may wake at 3am for a feeding. I don’t ever wake him from day naps or try to get him down at certain times. He sleeps when he sleeps. He has two long day naps, typically. Sometimes some cat naps scattered around those. Maybe I’m just lucky, who knows? I like to tell myself it’s because of my hard work though lol. It wasn’t this way until he was closer to 2 months old. This is our routine, in this exact order:
Lots of play time for a while, bath (just water most days, soap every few days), lotion, jammies, sleep sack, white noise machine, bottle with 2 or 3 books, side lamp off, sing 2 songs, then crib. Time can vary by 30 minutes depending on how tired he is or when he woke up from a nap, etc. I just look for cues of tiredness during play time before taking him to the bath.
I wrote out how I wanted my routine to go and just stayed consistent with it, doing it every night. I also don’t respond to fussing in the night. Crying, absolutely; I am not a cry it out parent. But I ignore the fusses that he does seemingly in his sleep. Again, it could just be sheer luck but i want to think something has to be said for doing this for a few nights and him finally getting it. He’s been sleeping through the night every night for at least 4.5 weeks now.

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We started “sleep training” the day we brought her home. We followed eat, play, sleep with hour wake times and 2 hour naps. She has done naps and bedtime with safe sleep since day one. We put her down awake but drowsy since day one and she’s consistently put herself to sleep. At 7 weeks we moved her from bassinet in our room to her own room, made a consistent bed time routine, continued to put her down awake and she’s been sleeping from 7:30pm to 7:00am since 7 weeks with no wakings. She’s 11 weeks now and she’s going through a leap and a growth spurt and eating quite a bit more but still going down at 7:30pm, wakes around 3am on the dot, eats, then back down. We never really had to do a sleep training method such as extinction or ladder method as she’s been independently sleeping basically the whole time. If you’re curious on some methods “Independent Sleep for Newborns (January 2020-March 2020)” has great info. She wakes up from all sleep so happy and she really seems to have positive correlations with sleep so I think sleep training has worked great for us.

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Not yet. We do have routine but no formal sleep training. I plan to wait till after the 4 month regression to invest in either the takingcarababies or a sleep coach. I agree with you- the times it takes 2 hours to put baby down are brutal. And i cant imagine baby is feeling happy & rested in those instances either. And baby does not sleep through the night. One 4-hr stretch is the longest he’s ever gone. Its mostly 2-3hrs stretches and i mostly have to nurse him to sleep. I need a different life lol so ill sleep train around 5 months. Plus i got back to work when he’s 7 months & i need some kind of rest before i return.

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So with our first he was always a good sleeper. The only time we had to sleep train him was when we took his pacifier from him at 11 months because he had a hard time falling asleep without it since that was his security. So we introduced a security blanket and started sleep training and it only took 3 nights. Our daughter now though is definitely not the best sleeper. A isn’t terrible either though. Thankfully she falls asleep while eating her bottle and we just lay her down then but she still doesn’t sleep through the night (she’ll be 12 weeks tomorrow) and lately we’ve started waiting when she wakes up in the middle of the night. If she’s just fussing we let her try and go back to sleep on her own but if she starts crying we do go in and depending on the time (if it’s been any less than a 5 hour stretch) we give her her pacifier to try and get her to go back to sleep and start learning to go longer periods of time. Unfortunately I don’t have much advice for sleep training this early on. I guess the same way you always would I just honestly never had to but I personally choose a light sleep training method though. When we did it with our son my plan was to never let him cry for more than a half hour. So we did this routine: 
Lay him down, let him cry for 5 minutes. Go in lay him back down (he would always stand in his crib at that age), give him a little pat on his back, and walk out. 
Let him cry for 10 minutes, go in lay him down, pat his back, walk out.
Let him cry for 15 minutes, repeat everything. 
At that point if he didn’t lay down and relax I was going to pick up him and console him. Thankfully he never cried longer than that. The first night we did get to the 15 minute time frame but he fell asleep after 2 minutes. The 2nd day he cried for the 5. I went in. Then I was going to let him cry for 10 but he only cried for 3 and laid down and went to sleep. On the 3rd night he cried 2 minutes and went to sleep. I never even had to go in. And since then he’s been a great sleeper (he’ll be 3 in May).

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No official sleep training but our son sleeps through the night 9+ hours. We have had the SNOO since day one and he loves it. Makes sure to pay attention to the transition when you’re ready for the crib. We won’t be weaning him till 6 months from the SNOO as per their recommendation. It should help you make it through the dreaded four month sleep regression.

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We started getting her on a sleep schedule at 2 weeks and she’s been sleeping through the night for about 3 weeks now

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I had my baby in my room with me until she was 6 weeks old then I transioned her to her crib in her room. She goes to bed a bit later as whah I’ve found helped is a routine as well. What I do is her last bottle of the day is typically at 10:30-11pm I’ll Change her, put lotion on her, feed her in her room dark with her star light machine on. Once she’s done eating I rock her only until she is starting to get drowsy and then I put her in her halo wrap in the crib and she falls asleep until about 6:30-7am. She’s 11 weeks now and she wasn’t the best sleeper ether but once I kept the night routine going the same after a few days she kinda knew it was bed time consistency is key!

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I do the sleep-play-eat and she sleeps about 9:45-6 every night. I think I’m going to try transitioning to the crib next week she will be 11 weeks tomorrow

Anyone tried sleep training yet?

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