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@shopaholic: We're opposites! Our naps are amazing right now (knock on wood!) but nighttime is a nightmare.

I feel very conflicted about the whole sleep training thing. In many ways I feel the same as @runsyellowlites. On the other hand, how many night wake ups are too many?! Baby sleep also seems to be one of the FIRST things people ask you about - is baby STTN? No? If so, why not? Which then brings to controversial topic of co-bedding. It just seems so much easier to avoid the conversation.

So, to answer the question, I don't believe we will be doing any sort of sleep training. I have ate my words before though, so never say never. I definitely wouldn't have the heart to do CIO and like @yerpie110: my LO is a tension increaser (thanks for that link!).

@lolabee: I've always answered "No, but I don't expect her to *insert no biggie smile*" b/c I didn't.... like I said I know that by designed she was made to wake frequently. If anyone pushed it I would explain that sole reasoning & affirm that night nursing was great for my supply b/c more prolactin triggers (the hormone triggers that signal production) were laid at night... AND I firmly believed that it was BECAUSE of this continuous night nursing that we successfully made it through nursing strikes b/c I know alot of moms with bebes that sttn that had alot of trouble continuing to nurse through strikes.....

The response takes the attention off the "bad sleeper" and instead brings light to all the reasons the "bad sleeper" was designed to sleep how she does. tehe

I wouldn't have survived PPD without sleep. Period. Plus, C has always been a phenomenal sleeper, started 8 hour stretched at 8 weeks old. We sort of accidentally sleep-trained at 6 months when she swaddle-weaned, she night-weaned as a by product and started sleeping straight through. We did have to re-train her after travelling internationally and we used CIO. She was 10 months old.

My baby certainly wasnt "designed" to sleep like crap. That's not a blanket statement AT ALL. As with anything else related to parenting, it depends on the kid.

@hilsy85: I think if our son's "bad" sleep was affecting his awake time (cranky, fussy, too tired) then I'd be more open to trying CIO as an option of other methods didn't work. So far, our guy is happy happy during the day despite sleeping poorly at night. (Which makes me think that, really, his sleep isn't bad it's just not good for *us*.)

@lolabee: I hate hate that people always ask about sleep! Why is it so ingrained in us!? Plus, so many of our parents' generation did CIO and that's their go-to. They all truly feel like babies are supposed to sleep all night and having them cry is the way to do that. I usually admit he doesn't sleep through the night and nod non-commitally when they suggest CIO.

We did CIO at 16 weeks. LO was taking an hour to fall asleep while being walked or bounced. Then she would sleep for 30 minutes, wake up and take an hour to go back down. Every single night. We didn't have a problem with middle of the night wakings. She was at one feeding and we kept it. Sleep training ha done wonders for us.