If you sleep trained after 9 months (with a sleep regression or not), how did it go? What did you do? I've read that the ideal sleep training window is 5-8 months and now I totally understand why and wish I wouldn't have dragged my feet! I know it's not impossible, but at this point I feel really defeated and like we'll be waking up 3-4 times a night forever (ok, not literally forever, but help!).

I've posted about some of our sleep issues before, but long story (kind of) short: She's always been a crap sleeper and at 9 months we still have 3-4 wakings per night. I was anti-CIO until DD was about 7 months when we attempted it for a few days and it seemed to work in the short-term (a few nights of longer than normal stretches), but she soon learned how to sit-up and crawl in her crib and was waking up a ton. She's still up 4 times a night and is usually fed for three of them (bad habit, I know!!) because it's the easiest way to get her back to sleep and I'm usually on my own for night wakeups past midnight. I'm trying to wean her off the first wake-up before we tried CIO again.

Well, now that she's close to weaning off that feeding she's sprouted her first two teeth so sleep training is out the window for now. I know that there will always be something going on and that we can't delay it forever, but she'll be teething or learning to stand in her crib for the next few months so I worry that we've totally missed the window to successfully ST. Anyway, I'd love to know how you ST after the flurry of regressions, teething, motor milestones, etc.