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What are people’s thoughts on sleep training and the different methodologies? I’m trying to build my own perspective.

For context, I have a 3.5 month old son. Until 2 weeks ago, when he got a stuffy nose, he got to the point that he slept 7 to 8 hours straight at night.

Now between the stuffy nose and some leaps and regressions, he’ll vary between 3.5 hours and 7 hours before waking up. He doesn’t cry when he wakes up, and instead rolls around for 10 to 20 min before kicking the crib to wake me up. 

Trying to figure out the best approach to help him sleep through the night. And we have a solid go to bed routine in place.

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sleep training is very difficult for any parent but is counter intuitively very beneficial for the child. one of ours is sleep trained and one not, the skill to sooth oneself is invaluable and transfers to other aspects of their life

i think 3.5 months is too young to start. cry it out method is pretty straight forward and has reasonable limits. it won’t work on the first few trys

We’re traveling to see family for the next few weeks so won’t start till he’s 5 months old. I just wanted to start preparing. 

This is helpful though. Especially with self soothing transferring to other parts of life.