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We sleep trained our first at 4.5 months and he did great. With our second, we didn't sleep train because 1) we were afraid her cries would wake up our first (haha), 2) we are such softies with her because she's the baby (hahaha), and 3) Wagon Sr. was the one doing the one night feeding (around 2-3am) and he did not mind continuing.

Around 6 months she STTN (6/7pm to 6/7am) for about a week then stopped... then around 8 months she STTN consistently and still does.

well, DD sleeps through except for she's cutting 8 teeth right now. lol. but that's kind of a valid excuse.

we didn't sleep train because:
1) I wasn't comfortable with CIO
2) when I got desperate enough to try CIO, it didn't work anyway
3) it was easier to just nurse her or rock her than to try to spend time in the MOTN sleep training.

She started STTN around 11 months. The few months before that (9-11 months) was only 1-2 wakeups. Like, 8h/4h split.

@Mamaof2: same!

Are you equating sleep training with only CIO?

I didn't sleep train, she just always slept through the night from 5+ weeks on. When she got a bit older we established a nighttime routine and did put her in her crib awake, but she very rarely cries, and if she does it's 2-3 minutes max before realizing she's tired and goes down on her own. She's hasn't been a cuddler since she was 6 months old (I used to let her sleep on me) but she started to not like it and wanted to go down on her own...so she does. We were beyond spoiled in the sleep department.

LO slept through the night from 2 1/2 months to 3 1/2 months and then never again until last night when we started sleep training. He is 9 1/2 months old and was waking 4 times a night and refusing to go back in his crib. We were/are losing our minds.

@Mamasig: When did you transition your son from co-sleeping to his own bed? We started co-sleeping around 4 months because he had RSV and then caught a cold a few weeks after recovering from RSV. Since then, DS hates sleeping in his crib and has no problem sleeping in our bed. I don't sleep next to him per say. He sleeps on one side while I sleep on the other.

I have done zero sleep training. He's 14 months and still doesn't STTN. Ugh. Some sleep training may be in order once these 8 teeth he is cutting come through.

@mrskc: ouch! 8 at once?!

@Alivoo01: ugh yes! 4 canines and 4 molars all at once. He's surprisingly handling it pretty well. Better than when he cut 6 front teeth at once.

@sorrycharlie: poor O! Which ones? Canines and molars? That's what A is cutting right now. At least he'll be done with teeth until the 2 year molars so hopefully we'll get 10-12 months of a teething break. Lol

@mrskc: the 4 molars, and the "other" 4 front teeth (not the first four lol). I am dreading the canines too!! honestly, I haven't had access to her mouth lately so wondering if those are there too. I'll have to check today!

We sleep trained to get him to go to sleep in his own. He STTN once a couple months ago. He was down to one wake up between 3-4am but then got a cold and we had a week of super horrible sleep now he is at 2 night wakings. Although last night his first waking was an hour later than normal so I'm hoping this is a new trend.

He just turned 9 months. I'm really hoping for better sleep by the time I return to work in March.

I did hardcore CIO sleep training for two weeks at 6 months and it still didn't work for DS. DD typically wakes up at 4:30 to eat then back to sleep until 6:30, DS wakes anywhere between 2:30-3:30 to eat, then again around 5:30. I let him cry for hours and he would never put himself back to sleep so I gave up. I hope he STTN eventually! Mine are almost 7 months...

How does less than 3 months have the most votes?! Gah! LO is 4 1/2 months and still wakes up 2-3 times and has never slept all the way through (9 hours straight is her record). We will definitely sleep train eventually (she goes to sleep for the night on her own...DH puts her in the crib awake). It's just the MOTN wakeups we need to work on, but I am not ready to wean her yet as she legitimately seems hungry. My SIL never let my niece cry or even fuss, and she still has wakeups at 2 years old. That will not be us--I would lose my mind!!

We sleep trained at 11 months and had about one year of really decent night sleep. I ahould mention that he was ready and we gave him a lovey and there was virtually no crying.

Then, a lot of stuff changed at once and we have had a year of poor sleep.

I guess what I a,m saying is, just look at small amounts of time and set small goals. You will have regressions and set backs, if you think you only have to do it once, you might be setting yourself up for failure!

I never sleep trained LO and she STTN at 5 months (she is 11 months right now). I'm not against sleep training at all, but she is not a candidate for CIO (we let her cio a few times and it only escalated her crying to the point where she was throwing up, a huge mess, wide awake, inconsolable, and would take an extra hour to put her down instead of just picked her up when she cried. She has also never cried herself to sleep, ever, and we have let her cry for up to 2.5 hours on 3 different occasions. I call her a "tension increaser"). The other methods take too long and require too much consistency (I'm lazy) so I just figured I'd let her be and she'll figure it out. She does cry sometimes during the night (not every night), but she won't wake up, and I just pat her a few times, or hold her for a few minutes and put her down again, and she'd stop. She has had really rough patches, but we've always just rode it out.

Miss A is fourteen months and we haven't done any form of sleep training. She has STTN on occasion but on the whole is a very inconsistent sleeper who sometimes wakes at midnight and other nights will sleep till 5am.

I nurse to sleep for 95% of her sleep but she can put herself to sleep when she wants to and we bedshare after she wakes in the night.

On the very few occasions I have attempted to leave her in the cot to cry she got incredibly wound up and we both felt shitty which then made going to sleep so much more difficult.

Our lo actually sttn for a couple of months b/t 1.5-3.5 months. But for the past 3 months, things are a little ridiculous in the night waking department. To answer your question, I haven't sleep trained because neither my husband or I want to, I don't want to affect my milk supply, and I'm curious how it will play out on his timeline. We co-sleep so wakings aren't too bad, often he just wants to nurse, does so, and quietly goes back to sleep.

Never sleep trained and LO is 11 months and has STTN maybe 10 times in her life. Her wake ups are easy and manageable though so I never really felt the need. If she gets to 12 months still nursing overnight, I might night wean. We'll see. But that's only one night wake up in a 12 hour span.