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5.5 months exactly and it worked like a charm!

6.5 months for my son. Didn't sleep train our daughter. She just started sleeping longer on her own at around 9 months. We napped trained her here and there though.

Around 10 weeks...honestly, it wasn't anything like some traumatizing CIO and sleep training stories I've read about...it was more like putting her on a good day schedule and giving her several minutes to fuss a little (and sometimes cry a little)...but she fell asleep so easily and would sleep for a LONG time. Fortunately, there was no crying for hours.

We never night trained LO. We've nap trained. At 8 months. And little refreshers here and there.

We started at 3 weeks, using a schedule, offering the paci first, letting her fuss, etc. by 4 weeks we were getting 6 hours and by 8 weeks we were getting over 8 hours straight.

We didnt have to sleep train DS. He just falls asleep beautifully on his own.
I never sleep trained dd, but at around 19-20 months we started locking her door from the outside because she kept waking up at least 3x a night and would come into our room. She cried for for a few minutes just one night and learned to stay in bed.

6 months or so. I agree that it was life changingly awesome as well.

7-8 months. She wakes up 1-2x/night still....

4 months, it was amazing and I would definitely do it again. I didn't have it in me to nap train though so her 2nd nap is still very hit or miss.

@ladyfingers: I am interested in how it goes for y'all. I want to move R into her crib soon. She needs to be held to fall asleep, scared how hard it is going to be to break her of that. Has day care helped with his naps? We start in three weeks.

@Smurfette: In a way, yes, it's helped. This weekend we were able to stop swaddling him for naps and he falls asleep more readily on his own. However, I wouldn't say they're 100% better -- he still sometimes takes forever to go down, sometimes goes down right away, sometimes sleeps for 2 hours, sometimes sleeps 15 minutes. Same at daycare. But I think that being put down in a crib and left to fall asleep is already helping him learn how to fall asleep on his own (of course they don't let him CIO or anything). And its nice to know we don't have to rely on the swaddle anymore, though we still do swaddle at night because I'm just not that brave yet.

10 months. It's more transitioning her into the crib, but we CIO. I originally wanted to wait until she was closer to 1 since I've read @Mrs. Bee's blog post on ideal times to sleep train, but I just couldn't take it anymore! We co-slept and she's one wiggly girl and a huge bed hog! But safety was our main concern. Right now she's sleeping in her crib. It's 8:00 pm. It feels so good to write that!

Next step is to put the crib into her room downstairs. Right now it's outside of our room in family room/computer nook/by the stairs. To have complete control of the family room while she's sleeping downstairs would be a dream!