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I never fully sleep trained my second child either. I nap trained one of her naps, then just applied the same sleeping strategy to her other nap and eventually to her bedtime routine. I also waited out her night wakings. She finally stopped waking up at night less than a month ago at 9 months. Thankfully, she was a much better night sleeper than her brother was which made sleep training not as much a necessity this time around.

You can do it, Bee (I mean, if you feel it is necessary!). Just think of how much better Charlie got after he learned to sleep!

Totally! I think she needs it but I don't think I'm strong enough to let her cry.

I was militantly against it till LO was like 7 months old and had still never slept more than 3 hours at a time, and I was SO TIRED. DH was all for it, and had been since LO was 4 months (and our friends were ferberizing, and our pediatrician said "let him cry.")
Finally, I agreed to let DH be in charge and to give it a try, and I think we must have just caught him at a good time for it developmentally, because he never cried more than 10-15 minutes. It was actually really good for me, because up to that point, I would rush to LO every time he fussed, no matter the time... I never ever gave him any chance to self-soothe (though I have to imagine this was not the case at daycare, which he started at 12 weeks). It really helped me learn that LO COULD do it and be just fine... after the first couple nights, he'd cry for like two minutes, and then be fine. Now when we put him down for naps and bedtime, he's usually just fine, but occasionally he'll start to cry... and usually by the time I've closed the door to the room and walked to the top of the stairs he's quiet again. Before we decided to try a modified CIO out, I wouldn't have left the room if he was crying. So I'm glad we took the plunge and at least gave it a try. I think if he'd reacted badly, we probably would have given up and tried again a month later or something.

I'm trying to sleep train my LO and totally caved last night.
She slept from 7pm-3:20am. Usually when she cries I go into her room immediately. Last night I decided to wait..
I think I let her cry 3-5 minutes? I was going to let her go for 30, but she started saying UMMA!! *cry UMMA!! UMMA! I couldn't handle it so I went in and saved her
If you're gonna sleep train, do it before Olive starts talking!!!!!

I am! It's probably harder for us cuz we cosleep!

I am not scared and I am scared.

I am not scared because we did sleep train him on how to fall asleep on his own. Occasionally he still have some nights where he cries for quite a while before able to go to sleep and we still heartlessly ignore him and do the 5, 10, 15 minute checks.

On the other hand, I am scared because say if he cries at 4:30am (he usually doesn't cry, he makes noises) and I ignore him, there is a possibility that he would continue to stay up for an hour or more until I can't stand it anymore and just go in and feed him, and it will be morning already anyway and it messes up the entire day.

Besides, it is kinda hard to sleep train when you wake up to rock solid boobs and is more eager to get relieve (by having your baby drinking from it) rather than training your baby....