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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

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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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This is peer reviewed (my wife) study with 4 participants (now 5,7,11,12 y.o.). We didn’t sleep train. Got up with all of them. It was brutal. Doctors told us we needed to let them self soothe and cry it out. We didn’t. That phase ended. Now I want to go back to the lack of sleep to hang out with them more.

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I'm not sure you can ask a more divisive question to a parent.

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just keep doing what you were doing before. takes a while for infants to get back into routine after nose stuff

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Oh! I did a ton of research into sleep training when we did it for my two kids. I ended up needing a different technique for each kid but got them both sleep trained! There seem to be two dominant schools of thought which exist on opposite ends of a “cry it out”/ “putting down drowsy but awake” spectrum with the training methods existing between. My strategy was to start with the most gentle methods and progress towards cry it out depending on success. . Our first child responded really well to the Ferber Method which has a cry-console loop with increasing duration between consolation. (5m, 10m, 15m, etc） Our youngest was too stubborn for anything but cry it out but that worked in two nights. When to start and what method you use all depends on baby development and family needs. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.

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Still trying to figure this out after 15 months :)

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We did sleep training at 12 weeks old. I can see how that would seem a little early to some people but I was grateful we did it, sleep is so important to babies and to us parents! Things that made the biggest difference IMO — Putting the baby down *awake* - we never rocked to sleep before. It teaches them to self soothe. If they cried, we would set a timer. 3 min, 5 min, 10 min, 15 min, 20 min, etc. So, if the baby is still crying after 3 min - go in and pat them, rub their belly, soothe them with your voice, let them know you’re there but do not pick them up out of their crib and leave the room. Now set the timer for five minutes. If the baby is still crying when the timer goes off, repeat soothing method without picking them up. Leave the room. Now 10 min timer, continue doing this with each time increment increasing in between. With our first it took a couple nights of doing this. With our second, it took probably a week. So worth it. Good luck to you ✨

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