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6 months. I tried a couple nights of gentler methods, then i said screw it and just did it.

7 months. We also tried gentler methods which was a huge fail for us. I always go to him if he wakes up in the middle of the night though (which is very rare). I want him to know that when it is sleep time he is expected to sleep but if he needs us in the night, we will be there for him.

11 weeks. We have several friends who sleep train earlier (around 8 weeks) so we may even do it earlier next time. If she woke up in the middle of the night, we fed her. But honestly, that hardly ever happened. We "tanked her up" by giving her two feedings closer together in the evening, with the last one being a little more than she would usually have during the day, and that seemed to stave off hunger during the night.

We did it at 6.5 months. He had been really sick for 2 months leading up to that, or we might've tried maybe a month or so earlier. But sooner than that and I don't think it would've work. I didn't notice DS starting to self-soothe until 5-5.5 months. If your baby can't do that, then they're not going to learn how to go to sleep, they're going to learn to either cry until you get them, or they'll cry until they pass out. But they aren't learning how to sleep in those cases.

I did want to try to give him opportunities to learn to sleep before sleep training, but it just never seemed to work for us. Drowsy but awake never happened unless we nursed first.