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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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Our son slept pretty well up until the 6 month mark. When he hit 9 months he was waking every few hours and it nearly killed us. We took him to "sleep school" which was an intensive 5 day program that improve his ability to self soothe and trained us on how to settle him properly. It literally changed our life and he has slept 8-12 hours every night since

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they broke the attachment / dependency on Mumma, which involved slowly increasing the amount of time between going in and comforting him when he was crying 

they also educated us about the difference between a distressed cry and a grizzle so that we could leave him alone and get him to the point where he was learning to self soothe 

it’s more about educating the parents. he adapted to the new routine within 3 days

What did they do in sleep school to help him get to that point?