Sleep Training?

Question

I’m seeing so many people talking about sleep training their babies by keeping them awake and making them take naps at certain times. From everything I’ve read you shouldn’t until they’re at least four months old? Am I wrong? FTM
I’m not talking about waking your baby up to feed them. I mean waking your baby up and keeping them awake simply to make them sleep kore at night. 
From the research I’ve done, the only way you should be altering your baby’s sleep is to wake them up to eat but other than that let them sleep when they’re tired and be awake when they’re not. Keeping them awake because you want them to sleep a full night at < 4 months old is not good for them and that they shouldn’t really be sleeping the whole night until 6 months. Meaning even at night you should be waking them to eat. I just see so many moms begging for their month old baby to sleep the whole night or bragging that they do. I’m not judging anyone for how they mom. I’m more just wondering if I’m doing it wrong and figured I’d post to educate other mothers who may not know. 
Knowing and doing your own thing and making your own decisions is 100% okay, I just like to be sure people can make educated decisions.

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Not wrong. Trying to sleep train now with only frustrate you.  I let my son sleep when he’s tired because keeping a baby awake will make it worse because an overtired baby will be harder to get to sleep.  And honestly, sleep training isn’t something you have to do.  I never did Wright my daughter and I probably won’t with my son.

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Sleep is developmental, I don't believe in sleep training at all. Healthy sleep associations and hygiene are essential though.

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you aren’t supposed to sleep train until 4 months, but you can do things to encourage healthy sleep before then. For example you can provide light and stimulation during the day, white noise during sleep times, dark environments at night. You can also put them to bed when they’re drowsy so they learn to fall asleep on their own. Sleep training can mean a lot of things, but for example, some old school sleep trainers recommend letting baby “cry it out” and that wouldn’t be developmentally appropriate.

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There's a difference between real sleep training and getting your baby into a routine to lay a foundation for sleep training. But sometimes its just easier to say sleep training.  But you're right that early on it's not really advisable to truly sleep TRAIN. Babies don't really have the development to train them to do much of anything early on :) for instance my girl is a month old and she has fallen into a pattern with the tips we learned from some sleep training materials. And having us notice her sleep patterns, what puts her to sleep, what her wake windows are, etc - that will help us down the road when we truly DO sleep train. Hope that made sense!

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That’s not sleep training, using wake windows to avoid an overtired baby is responding to your babies cues not sleep training, sleep training is recommended after 5 months for development reasons, but using wake windows and making sure baby is fed enough during the daytime I have had both babies sleeping through the night by 6 weeks

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We don’t sleep train but I’ve read it helps to keep the room where he sleeps bright during the day and dark at night. I started opening the curtains to let light in during the day and at night just a night light on and I’ve noticed he sleeps longer stretches at night.

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You don’t have to wake your baby to eat during the night once they’ve regained their birth weight. They’ll wake up if they’re hungry.

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I have always did a baby led sleep training. All i did was write down his schedule for a few days and go from there. Ill change it once he starts napping less and things like that but ive always let my kids lead the way.  He gets up at 5 am eats then goes back to bed. Then up again at 11 eats and plays until 2-3ish when he eats again then sleep until 5pm he then wakes up about 8 and eats and stays awake until 11 pm and then will sleep until 5 am.
I did the same thing with my daughter. You just have to be open to adjusting things as time goes on. Also remembering that some days they might wanna nap more or sometimes even less. Just let the baby guide the way. Also i noticed the more he is played with and interacted with the more he sticks to his schedule

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4 to 6 months is correct. Something about developmental stuff with babies.

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