When to start

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When did you guys start sleep training your baby? Any particular method used?

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Taking Cara babies. Check her instagram @takingcarababies. She’s fenomenal

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We started with establishing a solid bedtime routine when baby seemed ready. I read Precious Little Sleep, Cribsheet, and the Baby Sleep Solution. Once we had the bedtime routine established for a while, we moved the feeding to the beginning of the routine to avoid the suck to sleep association and started putting baby down in her crib fully awake. I definitely recommend Precious Little Sleep (also a podcast and FB group of the same name to help you get a feel for the book). It just outlines different age-appropriate strategies so you can pick what you are most comfortable with.

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We started at 4.5 months. We planned to wait until 5 or 6 months, but with being on lockdown it seemed like a good time to be delivery with our schedule. Baby had also self weaned his night feeds so we knew he wouldn’t be crying in the night out of hunger.

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I’m not sure if this is considered sleep training. But from about 6 weeks old onward, I began the routine of putting my son to bed after feeding him at 8pm every night. Eventually he began sleeping 5-6 hours straight the first part of the night, he’d feed around 2am and then sleep 2-3 more hours, eat at 5am. Then sleep 2 more hours. This has been his routine every single night and he’s now 12 weeks old. So it’s been working out well. His days and nights are no longer mixed up. He takes an hour nap at 11am and another hour nap at about 4-5pm. He’s an excellent sleeper. But he’s a noisy sleeper. He just moans and grunts in his sleep, and he’ll kick too.

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