We have decided to try sleep training starting next week. My daughter is 6 months old. The main goal is to get her to go to sleep without assistance.
Currently she nurses to sleep and we co bed. For the past two weeks she won't let me leave her at all, so I have to nurse her and lie with her from7:30 on. I'm over it.

Our plan is basically parent attended CIO. So night one it will nurse her, put her down, and me or my husband will stay next to her, pat her, whatever, but no picking up. Night two will be less support, and slowly moving away. By night 5 we hope to be doing Ferber style checks.

What can I do to help her and us prepare for this? She is a terrible sleeper in every way, it seems impossible for anything to work...