Hellobee Boards Topic: How old was your LO when you sleep trained?

Hellobee Boards Topic: How old was your LO when you sleep trained? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:54:07 +0000 Lindsay05 on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767774 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:08:15 +0000 Lindsay05 767774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ At 4 months. It was the best decision we made. SugarplumsMom on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767755 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:05:22 +0000 SugarplumsMom 767755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 10 months. It's more transitioning her into the crib, but we CIO. I originally wanted to wait until she was closer to 1 since I've read @Mrs. Bee's blog post on ideal times to sleep train, but I just couldn't take it anymore! We co-slept and she's one wiggly girl and a huge bed hog! But safety was our main concern. Right now she's sleeping in her crib. It's 8:00 pm. It feels so good to write that! Next step is to put the crib into her room downstairs. Right now it's outside of our room in family room/computer nook/by the stairs. To have complete control of the family room while she's sleeping downstairs would be a dream! littlebittyhouse on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767703 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:50:44 +0000 littlebittyhouse 767703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ LO is 10 months and we havent yet. Not sure if we will nor not... ladyfingers on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767681 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:44:51 +0000 ladyfingers 767681@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Smurfette: In a way, yes, it's helped. This weekend we were able to stop swaddling him for naps and he falls asleep more readily on his own. However, I wouldn't say they're 100% better -- he still sometimes takes forever to go down, sometimes goes down right away, sometimes sleeps for 2 hours, sometimes sleeps 15 minutes. Same at daycare. But I think that being put down in a crib and left to fall asleep is already helping him learn how to fall asleep on his own (of course they don't let him CIO or anything). And its nice to know we don't have to rely on the swaddle anymore, though we still do swaddle at night because I'm just not that brave yet. NovBaby1112 on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767675 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:42:15 +0000 NovBaby1112 767675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @ladyfingers: good luck! we had really good success around 12 weeks at putting LO down drowsy, but awake at night. prior to that she needed to be rocked totally asleep. she never really cried because we did it very gradually. Smurfette on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767658 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:35:42 +0000 Smurfette 767658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @ladyfingers: I am interested in how it goes for y'all. I want to move R into her crib soon. She needs to be held to fall asleep, scared how hard it is going to be to break her of that. Has day care helped with his naps? We start in three weeks. ladyfingers on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767604 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:16:08 +0000 ladyfingers 767604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ DS will be 3.5 months this weekend and we plan to start then. Essentially, he still sleeps in the rock n play in our room and needs to be rocked to sleep. We're going to start putting him down in the crib drowsy and leave the room and do 10-minute checks for as long as he's crying. Wish us luck. :/ plantains on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767321 Wed, 08 May 2013 10:29:52 +0000 plantains 767321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 4 months, it was amazing and I would definitely do it again. I didn't have it in me to nap train though so her 2nd nap is still very hit or miss. Springtime on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767163 Wed, 08 May 2013 09:20:27 +0000 Springtime 767163@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Successfully sleep trained 3 days before 11 months. It has been life changing but still not STTN consistently. mediagirl on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767070 Wed, 08 May 2013 08:37:39 +0000 mediagirl 767070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 7-8 months. She wakes up 1-2x/night still.... Rubies on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767065 Wed, 08 May 2013 08:33:19 +0000 Rubies 767065@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 3.5 months...And nap trained at the same time. cascademom on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-767015 Wed, 08 May 2013 08:03:17 +0000 cascademom 767015@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 6 months or so. I agree that it was life changingly awesome as well. edelweiss on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766978 Wed, 08 May 2013 07:32:25 +0000 edelweiss 766978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ we started at 11 weeks because getting him to fall asleep was turning into a huge production, and he was taking 45-minute naps and waking up cranky. it didn't work like a charm, but we don't really have another option (the carseat, carrier, cosleeping, sleeping on top of us are not sure ways to get him to fall and stay asleep). as he's getting older things are getting better. chopsuey on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766969 Wed, 08 May 2013 07:27:36 +0000 chopsuey 766969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We didnt have to sleep train DS. He just falls asleep beautifully on his own. I never sleep trained dd, but at around 19-20 months we started locking her door from the outside because she kept waking up at least 3x a night and would come into our room. She cried for for a few minutes just one night and learned to stay in bed. hilsy85 on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766964 Wed, 08 May 2013 07:24:41 +0000 hilsy85 766964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We tried and failed at 5 months, and are about to try again this weekend. LO is 6.5 months. LemonLong on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766920 Wed, 08 May 2013 06:26:56 +0000 LemonLong 766920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We started at 3 weeks, using a schedule, offering the paci first, letting her fuss, etc. by 4 weeks we were getting 6 hours and by 8 weeks we were getting over 8 hours straight. BelugaBean on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766917 Wed, 08 May 2013 06:24:21 +0000 BelugaBean 766917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ She was 5.5 months and it only took a few nights. She slept so well until she was about 3 months old and then she was waking up like 7-10 times a night so we just had to or I would have lost my mind! Weagle on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766915 Wed, 08 May 2013 06:22:28 +0000 Weagle 766915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We never night trained LO. We've nap trained. At 8 months. And little refreshers here and there. runsyellowlites on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766833 Wed, 08 May 2013 00:19:55 +0000 runsyellowlites 766833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 3 months for G, don't plan on sleep training P, who is 13 months, or our future bebes. sandy on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766824 Wed, 08 May 2013 00:01:15 +0000 sandy 766824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Around 10 weeks...honestly, it wasn't anything like some traumatizing CIO and sleep training stories I've read about...it was more like putting her on a good day schedule and giving her several minutes to fuss a little (and sometimes cry a little)...but she fell asleep so easily and would sleep for a LONG time. Fortunately, there was no crying for hours. lovehoneybee on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766819 Tue, 07 May 2013 23:53:33 +0000 lovehoneybee 766819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 5.5 months. BoogieBea on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766798 Tue, 07 May 2013 23:22:29 +0000 BoogieBea 766798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 6.5 months for my son. Didn't sleep train our daughter. She just started sleeping longer on her own at around 9 months. We napped trained her here and there though. tysonja on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766789 Tue, 07 May 2013 23:00:48 +0000 tysonja 766789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 'round 3 months. he was already a nighttime 12 hr sleeping champ though on his own, so it was only nap training. we'll see with #2! Running Elley on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766782 Tue, 07 May 2013 22:53:21 +0000 Running Elley 766782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 5.5 months exactly and it worked like a charm! Mrs. Bee on "How old was your LO when you sleep trained?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-lo-when-you-sleep-trained#post-766779 Tue, 07 May 2013 22:52:06 +0000 Mrs. Bee 766779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We sleep trained Charlie when he was 4.5 months old. It was life changingly awesome. We sleep trained Olive when she was 13 months old. Then she was sick months 14-15 and her sleep went to crap, and we re-sleep trained at 16 months. She has slept through the night (most nights) since then (she's 19 months now). How old was your LO when you sleep trained?