My lo is 4.5 month old and terrible sleeper. Cannot transition from one sleep cycle to other. Wakes countless times for pacifier during night as well as naps. I want to sleep train her but dont want to do this process again and again due to teething and othet developmental stuff. At what age should i sleep train, any advice
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For both LOs, it just naturally occurred around 4 months. It wasn't necessarily planned that way, we just decided that running to babies crying multiple times a day/night wasn't for us. Worked wonders for both children. But you are a different person and you will find what works for you! Hope you get some relief soon
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@Jass: Mrs. Bee wrote a great post on the ideal ages for sleep training! http://www.hellobee.com/2012/03/23/when-to-sleep-train/
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The post that @Mrs. High Heels: mentions is one of the ones that really helped me when deciding when best to sleep train. We chose the "good" 2.5-4mth window and it worked amazingly well
I was scared just by reading about the 4mth regression and wanted to avoid it.I think the most important thing is to train when sleep is reasonably OK and there's nothing else (illness, teeth, regression) going on.
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i got through the first year without sleep training for one because i didn't want to do it and also like you, i didn"t want to do it multiple times! looking back at that year, i found everything was a phase. we also went through the phase u are in now with the pacifier re-inserting multiple times. and we had good and less easy phases. i think it was around 14 months when LO started get less sleep than i need as an adult, so we let him cry for up to 10 minutes a couple of nights and then he started sleeping through. there have been exceptions though (teething, sick, nightmares?), but for the most part he is a good sleeper now.
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