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6 months with DD and 11 months with DS. It only took DD two nights and 10 minutes of fussing to fall asleep. But it took DS a week and 45 minutes of crying for the first few nights (with me checking on him often and coming into the room so he could see me). So for is, it worked better to sleep train earlier on rather than later.

DS was difficult because I would lay him down for bed (in my room but in his crib). It would take a half hour to get him to fall asleep and stay asleep. He usually woke every half hour until I came to bed then we would co-sleep the whole night. We waited until 11 months to do the Ferber method and it worked great. By 12 months he STTN.

With DD, she slept in her crib fine from 8 weeks to 3.5 months. Then we hit the 4 month sleep regression and she would need to be nursed three times a night then we'd usually co-sleep from 3am though. By 5 months, we tried Ferber and she was down to one wake up until 13 months old.

11 weeks. Three nights. She did great!

11 months. He was a great sleeper until 8-9 months. It was taking forever for him to fall asleep and as soon as he hit the crib, he'd be awake again. It only took a few days and he now happily rolls around in his crib for less than 5 minutes and then he's out for the night.

6 months old

11.5 months. We tried earlier but she just wasn't ready

6 months for both kids. DS was a terrible sleeper and it took a week. DD was better to start with and just needed some nudging, she only took 2 nights.

Nights at 11.5 weeks (just to fall asleep on his own, not for feedings). Naps at 17 weeks. Took about a week with both but I'm so glad we did it.

We were in the exact same place as you are now with spending hours bouncing him down, gingerly placing him in the crib, only to have him wake up. Now he goes to bed at 6 pm without a fuss, and I can enjoy his awake time without quietly dreading the next nap.

6 months....and 9 months...and 12 months. Teething and colds made it an ongoing process, but it finally stuck around a year!

3 months, worked like a dream!

5.5 months. It's still a work in progress!

We started early at 4 months. Then did a revamp at 6 months.

@coopsmama: How old is your daughter currently?

16 months. He first started STTN around 4.5 months, but if he did wake randomly, I'd nurse him. He would wake in the middle of the night a couple times per month, then go back to STTN. Then, when I weaned at around 14 months, we rocked him to sleep. Then, he started waking up as soon as we put him down, so we realized that we needed to teach him to fall asleep on his own at around 16 months.

He was around 5 months when we did CIO. It took about a week, but now he's a very good sleeper and can put himself to sleep at night.

@coopsmama: I would have guessed older given the whole sneak out and wake up thing!

Have you tried leaving a t-shirt with your scent on it nearby? You could tuck one into the corner of her crib...

Everyone has their own opinion, but at 3 months I don't think there's anything wrong with rocking baby to sleep. At that age, we would try to teach her to fall asleep on her own by putting her down drowsy (with white noise - have you tried that?) and letting her attempt to fall asleep on her own. If she started crying I would immediately pick her up and rock her to sleep. Sometime's she would fall asleep on her own, other times she wouldn't. We did this every night and as time wore on she got better and better with it. I think 3 months is much too young personally to expect them to put themselves to sleep every single night or for some babies at all (but take my opinion with a grain of salt because I don't believe in sleep training). They're just waking up out of the 4th trimester and learning it's a big world out there that they're just a small part of. They need mom to make them feel secure!

With C, at 11 1/2 months, and then again right before she turned 2. The first time around, we did extinction (with almost 2 hours of crying the first night!) and the 2nd time, we did checks. She stopped after the 3rd check both nights.

@Mrs. Polish: @HLK208: @loveisstrange: @cascademom: @edelweiss: @MamaChin: @Little Misters Mom: @blackbird: & other <6 months sleep training mamas... were your kids still swaddled? H is 5 months, and we will be STing at 6months, but homeboy LOVES his swaddle. I don't know how that would work, letting him cry and "self soothe" when his arms are strapped to his sides.

@HabesBabe: we had to ditch the swaddle by 5 months since she was rolling. I probably wouldn't sleep train with the swaddle though since they need their hands to self-soothe.

@HabesBabe: no we had to stop using it. She was rolling around. We did use the Merlin sleep suit for about a month before

@HabesBabe: lo was swaddle weaned by the time we did cio.