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@brhal No I am the furthest thing from stoic!! So I my (4 minute long) experience with Ferber showed me what a true 10 looked like. He was crying so hard he could barely breathe and I could not handle it at all. Never in any night of SLS did he reach that level. He yelled at me. And sad cried...

@brhal Yeah of course! So first three nights I was right next to the bed soothing with rubbing back, patting bum, etc Night 4-6 my chair was in the middle of the room trying to use only my voice Night 7-9 my chair was by the door again using only shushing and my voice 10-12 my chair was in...

@amcillwain No prob!! I went more with intensity rather than an amount of time. So like if he crossed from whimpering/soft crying into what I would call sobbing I would go in.

@amcillwain That’s a really good question! I don’t now of the top of my head. I didn’t have a max in mind because I felt like I was at the last house on the street. I could keep rocking him back to sleep every hour but I couldn’t tolerate a more severe approach either. I was committed to making...

@amcillwain Yes! I really loved that the book had a flexible approach to that and not like - don’t ever pick him up or you’ll ruin it. So first three nights yes I rubbed his back and patted his bum but tried not to do it so consistently he was relying on it. I picked him up once on night two...

@amiable16 No I haven’t yet! But I definitely will when he’s down to one nap a day

@bubblies So at 6 months we night weaned so instead of feeding a bottle back to sleep we replaced with rocking back to sleep. Now at 10 months with sleep lady shuffle sleep training we just do the same process during his wakes that we do at bedtime like I go to the chair and do my best to...

@amessenger Yes we use a nightlight!

@whalefood Totally! Best of luck! I don’t know if this is helpful but some friends of mine who sleep trained before night weaning set “rules” for themselves about when to feed like if baby wakes before two hour mark I do a sleep training response but any more than that and I feed or I’ll always...

@whalefood Yes! And I’d keep the chair in the same spot so like if it was night 4 and the chair was in position 2 then if he woke up in the middle of the night I’d go sit in the chair and shush from there

Just wanted to share our success with using the method from Kim West’s book Good Night Sleep Tight. A few weeks ago I was scouring this sub for any success stories I could find with more gentle/gradual sleep training methods after we bailed on Ferber after one night (or should I say 4 minutes)...

@crucker2 Wow awesome article! Thank you for sharing

@hugthelamb Thank you! I am always so amazed how important maternal mental health is

@hugthelamb Can you say more about what are the stronger predictors of good outcomes?