Did you sleep train ?

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Yes. Best decision we ever made and we will do it again with our next. My sister in law STILL gets up at night with my 2.5 year old niece and nephew because she won’t let them be upset for 5 minutes, and we have good friends who literally aren’t having a second kid because their son didn’t sleep for 3 years. I have a friend whose baby won’t sleep unless she’s holding her. We paid for a sleep consultant and it was worth every penny. It was a personalized process where honestly we were the ones being trained lol. 
Our son has slept through the night (10-12 hours) since he was 8 weeks old and has fallen asleep for every single nap we’ve ever put him down for. I learned quickly that so many parents run and pick their baby up when their baby doesn’t actually need them— I can’t even tell you how many times my baby has cried and TWO minutes later is sound asleep, where if I didn’t know better I would have picked him up and completely ruined any chance of continuing his sleep. 
It’s not for everyone, and there are vastly different approaches to it (most people assume sleep train means leaving your baby to cry endlessly).

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I feel that sleep training is a very broad term, ranging from ‘cry it out’ to just having a good bedtime routine and being consistent. I think everyone does some sort of sleep training with their kids, whether they call it that or not

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Yes. Best decision I ever made. I’m epileptic and I have to have sleep or I can’t even properly care for my daughter. We used extinction at 5.5 months, it saved my life. Everyone (especially baby) was so much happier after. She’s 20 months now and still sleeps great.

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Nope and all my kids learned to sleep just fine without it.

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I accidentally hit yes, meant to press no

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Sleep trained my first and he did great ever since.
Tried everything in the books with my second and nothing worked. I just had to accept she’s as miserable of a sleeper as I am.
I didn’t have to sleep train my third because she sleeps wonderfully

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I didn't do anything formal with my first, we both just slowly worked together to get him to fall asleep in his crib and eventually he learned to sleep on his own.
My second, I was always afraid of his crying waking up everyone so he got very used to being picked up immediately and being rocked and walked around to fall asleep, so I did do sleep training around 10 months because I couldn't hold a wriggling 25lb baby for half an hour to get him to sleep anymore.

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