Sleep train? No sleep train?

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My son is 10 months and still wakes up twice a night. I tried a pick up, put down method of sleep training for one night and it did not work. He was frantically crying and pacing back and forth in his crib looking for me. It was terrible. I didn’t do it again after that except to give him a little bit of quiet alone time with some toys around the time of his nap just to get him used to being by himself. Even then he will eventually get frantic and I can’t stomach it. Lately he’s been wanting to sleep in bed with me and he wakes up in his crib when he realizes I’ve put him there. Will he grow out of this? Do I just go with it? Am I creating a monster?  I really feel like his temperament is not suited for sleep training. He’s super sensitive. Anyone else go through something like this? What did you do and how did it turn out?

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It was a hard pass for me, especially when I learned that sleep is a developmental skill just like crawling or walking. They sleep through when they’re ready.

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I didn’t sleep train either of my kids. I rocked to sleep and every so often would try putting them down awake. Once they went down awake, that’s what I’d do consistently. It’s up to you if you do or not. I wouldn’t bring him into your bed tho. I feel that’s setting up a bad habit for him & then he’ll always expect that.

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I felt like sleep training save my sanity. I highly recommend the book Precious Little Sleep. It give a lot of suggestions and you can pick and choose what will work best for your family.

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I don't sleep train. It can be great for the parents but not so much for the child.

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I felt like sleep training my ten month old saved my family. We are all happier now. We used Taking Cara Babies and started from the beginning with the newborn course and it made the rest easier. There are a lot of free resources she provides as well on her website and Instagram. For us, it was pretty gentle.

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Sleep train! It honestly saved me. My daughter was waking up every 2-3 hours and not to really nurse and get a full stomach but to have me help her settle back to sleep. So I decided to sleep train and it was maybe 1-2 nights of crying and now it’s a full 11 hours of straight sleep. Basically all my mom friends sleep train as well, I think anyone who values their sanity does lol. I have one who didn’t sleep train and her 3.5 year old still shares a bed with her and nurses to sleep so……..there’s that.

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We are very pro sleep training and our now 4 year old sleeps every night, all night, in her own bed since she was 6 months old (expect for rare illnesses and nightmares, but even then we sleep in her room to comfort her and don’t bring her to our bed).
If you want to sleep train, you need to have a few things set up first:
1) An established bedtime routine at the same time every night.
2) A plan you’re committed to trying for two weeks.
3) A baby that can self-soothe in other settings (e.g. they wake up briefly at naptime, but then settle down again without your help).
4) A willingness to hear to some crying.
Our daughter’s first night involved the most crying, but it was never longer than a 20 minute stretch before we went in again for a check-in and probably took an hour total. By the third night she was asleep in under 5 minutes. She woke up happy every morning as a baby and is now a healthy, thriving preschooler with well-rested parents (well, as well-rested as parents can be).

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Sleep train for sure! We slept trained our baby girl at 6 months. We all wake up refreshed. It takes anywhere from a few days to a week of consistency but it works. She sleeps from 7pm-7am. She is now 9 months.

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Literally in the same boat except my LO is 13 months 😭😭😭

Sleep train? No sleep train?

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