https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 16 May 2026 13:31:44 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/beginning-sleep-training-with-an-older-baby#post-2728558 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:17:42 +0000 atoz 2728558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My suggestion would be to try different methods if needed. We sleep trained my lo at nine months easily using Ferber. Then she learned how to stand up and we had the mother of all sleep regressions! At 11months we're now sleep training again. This time, I'm having to lay her back down with each check. If she isn't asleep by the third check, I lay her down and then sit next to her crib until she falls asleep (so far she has been within a few minutes). </p> <p>In other words, we're having to modify more this time around rather than follow a method exactly. And of course, the bedtime routine is a huuugggee help. </p> <p>ETA: we're going from cosleeping to crib too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/beginning-sleep-training-with-an-older-baby#post-2728471 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:56:23 +0000 PawPrints 2728471@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't have experience with fresh-start sleep training that old, but I can at least say that the fact that he's sitting up immediately is not a dealbreaker. We've had to go through mini-versions of re-training DD during times like travel, teething, the crib-to-bed transition, etc.; and all of those she would stand up the instant we put her down. We just left the room and she would cry and eventually lie herself down and put herself to sleep. (During the crib-to-bed transition she would actually run across the room, chasing us to the door - we had to shut it in her face. She still figured out how to walk back to bed and climb in and go to sleep). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/beginning-sleep-training-with-an-older-baby#post-2728374 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:34:49 +0000 sunny 2728374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Has anyone tried beginning sleep training with an older baby? How old was your baby and what did you do?</p> <p>We successfully sleep trained LO1 starting at 4.5 months. For various reasons we didn't really get around to starting with LO2 and he's now 14 months and refusing to lay down in his crib. When I lay him down he immediately sits up and cries. He normally co-sleeps at night with us and sleeps on a mat at daycare. His daycare teachers say he naps well.</p> <p>We did extinction with LO1 and it worked well for her, but it's not working so great with LO2.</p> <p>Any advice? </p>