Did you sleep train?

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Curious who sleep trained vs not. If you didn't how did you handle baby outgrowing bassinet. How is your kiddo now? If you did how does your baby or older kid sleep now? Did they change after sleep training? Less lively or happy spirited?

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I “sleep trained” my daughter. When she outgrew the bassinet, we set up her crib in our bedroom but three-four feet away from the bed. Still near us, but not right there like the bassinet. When she woke at night, I still got up and breastfed her, but when she was done, I put her back in the crib and kept my hand on her chest so she knew she was safe until she was asleep. When she woke up shortly after, I would respond, but I wouldn’t always pick her up. I’d put one of my hands back on her chest, and the other one the top of her head and I would talk to her quietly, letting her know I was there. I did this consistently, and she was good after about a week and didn’t wake anymore after, or if she did, she fell back to sleep on her own. She never used a pacifier unless she was teething, and she found her fingers very young. She never slept longer than 6 hours at a time until she was weened at 14 months, but it still helped me get much needed sleep.

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Didn’t sleep train either of my kids. Sleep is a developmentally achieved thing, and it’s not biologically normal to sleep train. Please note I do not judge or shame anyone who chooses to do so, just wasn’t gonna be something I was willing to do with mine. My son is 4.5 and sleeps through the night for the most part. He was in his crib from the beginning because he seemed to sleep better that way and we transitioned him to a twin sized floor bed around a year old. He still woke several times at night to eat until 18 months, then continued waking frequently until he was 3. My daughter is 15 months, still nurses a lot at night, and we bedshared safely until a year old. Now she’s on her own twin sized floor bed and excluding her wanting to nurse, she sleeps through the night too. 
My son goes to bed between 8-9 and wakes between 6:30-7:30, my daughter goes to bed between 7-9 and wakes between 6-7 with one nap lasting 1-2 hours in the middle of the day. Night wakings are normal and something they “outgrow”. Technically all us adults wake at night too. we may not even realize it, or if we do realize it, we are able to put ourselves back to sleep because our systems are mature enough to do so. A baby/toddler isn’t quite there yet, but obviously some kiddos just sleep! A good friend of mine’s oldest slept 14 hours straight and barely ever woke at night, from the time he was 8 weeks old till around 4 years old where he didn’t need as much sleep but he still sleeps a good 10-12 hours without waking. I was always insanely jealous of that lol.

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We did at a year. My daughter is the best sleeper now. We all get more sleep now that she has learned how to get herself back to sleep. I plan to do it with our next one too

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I have not. My LO is 5 months and sleeps in our room. She sleeps through the night though.

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I did not sleep train either of my kids. My first slept with me after she outgrew her bassinet  until 11 mo then went into a crib in her room. I did have to help “train” her to sleep in her crib. She didn’t start sleeping through the night until her second birthday. My second slept in his bassinet until he outgrew it and then slept with me until 15 months and he went into his crib in his room. He started sleeping through the night around 18 months if he wasn’t teething or sick, which has been a lot of the time but 🤷🏻‍♀️ it’ll pass.

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