https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 13 May 2026 13:29:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218997 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:09:55 +0000 Rubies 218997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I sleep trained at 3.5 months (a little early). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218882 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:00:40 +0000 MsMamaBear 218882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't. Since she wakes up at 5:45 with me, she goes to bed at 7 everynight. She sleeps through the night as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218735 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:55:50 +0000 Downward Dog 218735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I work outside the home and we are not planning on sleep training. I just go to bed earlier than I used to in order to make up for sleep lost during night wakings. But if my baby slept as much as yours did, I'd feel like a million bucks! My advice to you is: go with your maternal instinct. You don't need to sleep train unless it's right for your family. If you are happy with the way things are and your baby is getting enough rest, don't let a book tell you that something is wrong. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218651 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:58:12 +0000 MintedLife 218651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know what WOHM means (work out of the home mom, maybe?) but, I leave for work each day and we sleep trained at 4 months. We started on a Friday night and it has made a huge difference for us. We were rocking her to sleep every night, and she was waking up SO often. Not anymore. It's been wonderful. I think we're all sleeping better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218570 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:05:05 +0000 brownie 218570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a WOHM and I failed at sleep training. We tried and tried and it always seemed like something came up. The only way we make it work at 15 months old is that he sleeps with us in bed. We start each night with him going to bed in his own bed. We do our bedtime routine and put him down and he has to try to go to sleep as we sit there. Then when he gets up in the night he comes into our bed until morning when we either put him back or wake him up. </p> <p>I couldn't keep waking up with him to nurse all the time. He also reverse cycled so he nursed all night and hardly nursed during the day. We couldn't train this because of medical issue.</p> <p>I think you can start working towards sleep training. There are two things I heard that helped me: 1) from the Baby Whisperer: Babies cry to go to sleep. It is typically 3 cries that go up and then down. 2) Hold your baby still and upright over your shoulder until they relax about 3 minutes. Then place them in the bed relaxed and ready to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218567 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:03:30 +0000 autumnlove 218567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I planned to sleep train at 4 months and bought all the books but she started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218564 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:01:32 +0000 Honeybee 218564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a WOHM mom with DD, and we never sleep trained. She naturally moved toward putting herself to sleep and sleeping through the night after her 1st birthday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218562 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:59:24 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 218562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a WOHM and we didn't sleep train either of our girls. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wohm-when-did-you-sleep-train-your-lo#post-218557 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:58:09 +0000 mamajaja 218557@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 11 weeks and I go back to work in 3 more weeks =(</p> <p>Wondering if we should try to sleep train before I go back to workm (which is a little early) or wait until later (and deal with the heartache and sleeplessness before work).</p> <p>Also, maybe I shouldn't mess with a good thing. Currently LO sleeps from 9 pm to 4/5 am, wakes up for feeding, and will go down for maybe another hour after. BUT she needs to be rocked to sleep. I have mommy guilt over not being able to get her to go down on her own "drowsy but awake". =/</p> <p>Did you sleep train your LO before or after you went back to work? If so, what age? Would you have done it differently?</p> <p>Or did you sleep train at all? </p>