When did you start sleep training?

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My little one is sleeping through the night (8-10 hours at a time). Very happy about that but it is getting increasingly more difficult to put him to sleep for naps and bedtime because he knows when I put him down. My husband and I are going to sleep train him around 4 months (per our peds recommendation) and he has a couple more weeks to go but I’m starting to wonder if we should just sleep train him a little earlier. Has anyone else had any luck with this?

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From the beginning..? I don’t let him lay there and cry at all but I have him fall asleep on his own 80% of the time. I just keep him calm by patting him and replacing his paci and let him actually fall asleep himself. He’s not rolling over yet but I just started letting him nap on his tummy yesterday because I’m a stay at home mom and can keep the video monitor next to me at all times during the day and he’s been napping so much better.

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I read to not sleep train until 5/6 months.

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9 months with my first, but that’s when he started having an issue, he was fine falling asleep on his own until then. Current baby I don’t see a need to sleep train yet, he does occasionally fall asleep on his own and I enjoy helping him when he needs it.

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I don’t have experience with earlier, we are starting sleep training between 5/6 months

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We did at 12 weeks and it was the best decision ever, for us! I was able to nurse and rock baby to sleep up until then. At 12 weeks, nothing is working to put her down, and she wasn’t sleeping at all during the day and taking over two hours to go to sleep at night. That’s when we decided to sleep train and it went so much easier than expected. Naps are still kind of hit and miss, but baby girl is doing so much better at night! It’s so much better not having to stress about how long it’s going to put her down for a nap and she’s no longer getting super overtired all the time! Our baby girl was showing a lot of signs that she was ready so I know it was the right time for her.

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At 8 weeks I decided that it was time to introduce her to her sleeping space for naps and overnight sleep. Prior to this she was sleeping in her sleepyhead or on me or in her carrier for naps and in our bed or  moses basket at night.
The advice is to put them down drowsy but awake but this didn't work for us.
Here's what we did and still do:
Bath around 7pm
Massage with coconut oil
Feed
Bed - we rocked her to sleep and then put her down and stayed with our hand on her chest and forehead for 5 to 10 mins. If and when she woke we picked her up before she started crying and repeated. My husband and I took turns until she fell asleep. 
The first night it took around 1 and a half hours until she slept for around 5 hours.
The second it took 1 hour. Now the entire routine takes 1 hour and she sleeps around 8 to 10 hours. She's 16 weeks now and we started it at 8 weeks.
We did this in the anticipation of the 4 month sleep regression which hasn't hit yet. But we intend to continue through it.

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My daughter’s bed time is 7:30. Hubby and I work early mornings. So we kinda trained her to fit our schedule. It was a slow process. Now she sleeps from 7:30-5. Her naps are short and once in a while she naps  for 2 hrs. Her last nap for the day   starts somewhere between 4:00-4:30 and she sleeps till 5-5:15. After that we don’t let her nap at all. We keep her awake until her bed time. This has helped us tremendously. She is tired enough to go bed at 7:30. Also during the day time I don’t let her nap past 2.5 hours at a time (she rarely naps that long anyway). We give her pacifier to soothe her and put to sleep. People gonna have opinions. Every baby is different and you have to do what’s best for you and your baby. 😊

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My experience between 4-6 months is the best time! I did at 5.5 months with my first and will prob do it at the same time with my second. It was just important to me they could get comfy and move a bit more freely in the crib and I wanted to sleep and nap train at he same time, which is easier to do when they are only napping 2 times a day or so! This time I also need to remove a paci so it needs to be before 6 months!

When did you start sleep training?

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