Which mommies did sleep training and when did you start?

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I feel so scared to do this. SO SCARED. I cry when my baby cry. But my baby cannot sleep without me holding him. I have to hold him 24 hours. I’ve heard the cry it out method is not good for development purposes because they feel abanded but then others had good results with it. I don’t know what to do. Advice from people who went through sleep training? How was your experience?

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First of all, your reaction is normal because we are not ment to let our babies cry. 
How old?
We did a gentle form of sleep training at 9 months with our youngest. We didn’t let him cry at all, it’s possible to do so.

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My kids have never felt abandoned with the cry it out method. When I did this I make sure they understand that I am right in the next room and I am not going anywhere. I also tell them that if they need anything I'll be there. When you do the cry it out method just make sure your kids know that you are still there near and you will not go anywhere at all.

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Personally and this is really just my own pov, I didn't and wouldn't do hardcore sleep training. I hated the idea of my baby thinking that she would have to feel alone and scared all by herself when she doesn't even understand what's going on. So as a newborn, the max I'd leave her to fuss was about five minutes. Sometimes a little longer if she was just fussing and not upset.
When she moved to her own room at 9mo, we did let her try to get back to sleep on her own, if she was just stirring and whining a bit. But always went to her when she was properly upset. 
Perhaps I just want to drill into her head that she's not alone, and we'll always be there when she calls out for us. I just couldn't wrap my head around letting her cry it out for 20-30min. That just felt like me telling her her feelings didn't matter and her sleeping properly mattered more. Anyway... that's just my thinking. Mine's almost 2.5years now.

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We did taking cara babies at around 8 months I think. It was horrible but only took like 2 nights and we could go in every few mins. Since then we've never had one issue and she is the best sleeper in the world, 12 hours straight a night, never had a regression and shes 18 months now. She loves going to bed now and runs to get her pjs on. It was seriously the best thing we've ever done for her and us.

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Did Ferber method at 8months and it worked in two nights. Of course it was hard for me to deal with the crying but I stuck to it and it was the best decision I’ve ever made as a Parent so far! She is almost 2.5 now and sleeps 12 hours a night and takes 2-3 hour nap every day.

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Taking cara babies at 6 months
In my opinion, the sooner you do it, the better for both you and baby. The longer you put it off, the more dependent baby will become on you, which will result in it being harder and more traumatic to sleep train later on

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At 10 months we tried a gentle CIO by going in at increasing increments but it just made her cry harder if I didn't pick her up. So we did full CIO at 11 months, the longest my daughter cried was 33 minutes the first night and yes, it was so hard! But she slept through the night every night since and shocker! She still loves me into he morning.
If she happens to wake up and cry I give her a few minutes and if she doesn't settle herself I'll go in, pick her up, snuggle her for a few minutes until she calms down and then put her down and walk out. She will fuss for a few minutes but never full out cry anymore.

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We did Ferber and started at 6 months. We did tweak it a little bit. We started with nap time and then moved into bedtime

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We did Ferber at 4 months but I changed how often I checked on him. I was not comfortable letting him cry for so long at so young. He took to it quickly, but then around 6 or 7 months started having trouble again. We attempted the same thing we’d done before but something felt very wrong this time around. So we will wait until he is older to do anything more.

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I really wanted to wait until 6 months, but I just couldn’t do it. So I started Ferber a few days after he turned 4 months. I got really lucky and it worked really fast for him, like two days and only crying for up to 15 minutes.

Which mommies did sleep training and when did you start?

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