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I was a WOHM mom with DD, and we never sleep trained. She naturally moved toward putting herself to sleep and sleeping through the night after her 1st birthday.

I'm a WOHM and I failed at sleep training. We tried and tried and it always seemed like something came up. The only way we make it work at 15 months old is that he sleeps with us in bed. We start each night with him going to bed in his own bed. We do our bedtime routine and put him down and he has to try to go to sleep as we sit there. Then when he gets up in the night he comes into our bed until morning when we either put him back or wake him up.

I couldn't keep waking up with him to nurse all the time. He also reverse cycled so he nursed all night and hardly nursed during the day. We couldn't train this because of medical issue.

I think you can start working towards sleep training. There are two things I heard that helped me: 1) from the Baby Whisperer: Babies cry to go to sleep. It is typically 3 cries that go up and then down. 2) Hold your baby still and upright over your shoulder until they relax about 3 minutes. Then place them in the bed relaxed and ready to sleep.

I work outside the home and we are not planning on sleep training. I just go to bed earlier than I used to in order to make up for sleep lost during night wakings. But if my baby slept as much as yours did, I'd feel like a million bucks! My advice to you is: go with your maternal instinct. You don't need to sleep train unless it's right for your family. If you are happy with the way things are and your baby is getting enough rest, don't let a book tell you that something is wrong.

I sleep trained at 3.5 months (a little early).