https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:38:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-sleep-training#post-220460 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:18:59 +0000 Mrs. Bee 220460@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsdaredevil: that's the main aspect of it. when babies require an external force in order to fall asleep and stay asleep (rocking, nursing, etc), they are likely to wake up more often because they don't know how to put themselves to sleep when they wake up from a sleep cycle (45 minutes).</p> <p>when a baby is rocked to sleep for instance, they might wake up after one sleep cycle and wonder where the heck they are! last thing they remembered, they were in mama's arms. but when a baby puts himself to sleep, he knows he was in his crib when he fell asleep, and that's where he woke up.</p> <p>if you practice good sleep hygiene at a young age, you may very well not have to sleep train! we did everything wrong with charlie. we did a lot of things right with olive but still needed to sleep train. still because of the things we did right, she never really cried and was the easiest baby ever to sleep train. it has been life changing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-sleep-training#post-220427 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:03:17 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 220427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So sleep training is basically training your child to go to sleep on their own (putting them in the crib awake and having them put themselves to sleep)? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-sleep-training#post-220418 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:00:42 +0000 Sammyfab 220418@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think there are toooons of babies that don't need to be sleep trained but I would consider their parents to be lucky :). Sleep training to me is teaching your child how to sleep independently. If your child needs your help to get to sleep, stay asleep, and get consolidated sleep, then you will probably end up with an overtired and cranky child...and exhausted parents! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-sleep-training#post-220414 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:59:41 +0000 mrbee 220414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsdaredevil: Yup, there are great sleepers who don't need training! And also, if you use good sleep practices with your LO, they'll be much more likely to not need sleep training (or make it through it without many or any tears). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-sleep-training#post-220413 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:59:40 +0000 Honeybee 220413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We never sleep trained DD; we just figured she'd do it on her own at some point, and we tried to be patient while she figured it out. Right around 1 year she suddenly "got it" and started putting herself to sleep and sleeping through the night without any help from us.</p> <p>I'd like to do the same thing with DS. Right now, we're just concentrating on good sleep hygeine since he is nowehere close to sleeping through the night. We are not a CIO family, so I'd rather wait it out and let him progress on his own schedule than the push the issue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/questions-about-sleep-training#post-220398 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:53:19 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 220398@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I pretty much know nothing about sleep training (LO is only 2 months) but I see TONS of post about it all over Hellobee.<br /> I can't help but wonder if every child needs to be sleep trained? Aren't there kids out there who just go to bed when you put them to bed? What happens if you don't sleep train a child? </p>