When to sleep train?

Question

My LO is 5 months and has been a relatively good sleeper and self soothed since birth at night after feedings. She is waking more often lately but she does have a few teeth coming in. I started putting her in her crib more for naps as she used to just nap out wherever I was and it went great for the first week, she fussed a bit but self soothed to sleep but now she’s kind of pushing back more and crying and when I pick her up she falls asleep almost immediately. She puts herself to sleep easily in my arms. I barely have to do anything. We did have a busy few days with crappy naps on the go so she might be overtired. I’m ok with some crying to sleep train and maybe trying something like ferber method but I don’t feel like that ‘next level, back of the throat, takes a while to get their breathing back to normal’ crying is ok. I don’t know. I’ve also read some things that say no sleep training before six months and some that say around 5 months is ideal. She self soothes well and I don’t want to “train” her out of that by letting her push back and get into different habits but I also don’t want to sleep train if it’s too early. I would be starting with naps then working on night sleep. Advice?

Answer

I would not sleep train if she is teething. Wait until that is over. Ferber and most other methods suggest waiting until at least six months of age. I did it at 8 months and it worked perfectly in two nights.