When are you starting sleep training?

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My girl is 3 months. She sleeps fairly well, usually between 7-9 hours, sometimes all the way through the night (11 hours). My only problem is she must be held to fall asleep at night. And she will only nap during the day if I hold her the entire time. When should
 I start letting her "cry it out"? I've read if I wait too long then it gets really hard but 3 months seems young. What are your thoughts? Can you suggest any good reading on this?

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I read that it takes at least 20mins for a baby to enter deep sleep, which is why so many wake up after being put down immediately after falling asleep.

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My pediatrician said it is normal for babies to fuss and/or cry for 10-20 mins before they fall asleep. I've been doing this with my daughter where I put her down when she shows signs of tiredness (yawning, eye rubbing)... Once I put her down, she will cry for about 10-15 mins before eventually falling asleep. I NEVER go into the room to comfort or pick her up unless her cry changes - ie it changes from "I'm trying to fall asleep" to "I'm really upset pick me up now!" I've been doing this for the past 5 weeks and it's worked well so far. She takes 4 'naps per day and 7 hrs at night, feeds for 10 mins then back down for 4 hours. And the bonus is that I actually manage to do stuff during the time she's asleep because I'm not wearing or holding her.

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I had the same problem! She started only sleeping 15-30 minutes at a time and would constantly wake up if I tried to put her down so if she hadn't had a decent nap by early afternoon I would just hold her and she would sleep for 3 hours! It was so frustrating! Anyway I don't know if it's because she got used to sleeping for long periods at that time or what but she has started falling asleep for three hours on her own now! She did it twice on the couch so I started putting her in her crib now and she's good! 3 hours! Weird since she wasn't doing that before! My nurse at our family doctor (who has four young children) gave me the go ahead to start crying it out a bit and making a schedule (this is huge I think! His/her body will get used to sleeping at the same time)...we also still swaddle and have started using it for naps during the day now and it's worked wonders!

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We started letting our girls self soothe a few nights ago. I do it during the day with their naps too. The first night, one of the twins cried for about 25 minutes but the other only cried for about 10. Now, they are both asleep with in 5-10 minutes. They will be 3 months on tuesday.

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I always thought I'd try sleep training at 5 months (in his own room), but I love having LO in our room so I may wait till 6 / 7 months. Of course I change my mind daily but I'm not in any rush.

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I am going through this exact thing! She refuses to sleep in her crib during the day for more than 15-30 min. But at night she's out for hours. Every time I put  her down she wakes up! I've just been putting her down, if she just whines I leave her but if it's full blown screaming I go in after a couple of minutes if she doesn't settle. And I try to rock, sing her back to sleep and just keep putting her down and keep repeating and praying it works soon! 😭😳

When are you starting sleep training?

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