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@jd4christ Your parenting style sounds similar to mine. I was not sleeping training because it was easy enough, and when she sleeps solidly other than brief periods when I pop a boob in her mouth, it's fine. I'd love longer stretches, but I just figured we'd get there. Well, that's not working...

@bornagain95 Great idea, except she cares exactly zero about pacifiers, unfortunately. Maybe tmi, but I think they're maybe too big compared to my nipple? Plus no milk.

@einstein56 /@einstein56 I like your username! :) It sounds like we're both using a strategy that's basically, "do what works until it doesn't, or isn't sustainable anymore." I'm definitely going to reduce her dependence on a boob for falling asleep, and hopefully this weekend we can try...

@sirsteve Thanks, I appreciate this. So far we've done okay at reading her signals, and when it seems like we're failing, it's often just a rough patch of growth, teething, etc. This might be just another rough patch, and I'm sure we'll adapt.

@newby1985 I appreciate this. I look back to the newborn stage and the anxiety of having a brand new, fragile little being, and if we do this again I think I will lose a lot fewer anxious tears. I think when I'm not sleeping, it's easy to catastrophize, plus this is all unknown territory.

@newby1985 I totally get that. I definitely let her get mad and frustrated. I would get irritated myself if every time I got upset, someone jumped in to try to fix things. Usually when she starts fully crying, I offer help. I think everyone has their own interpretation of when to step in, and...

@timothy91 Lolol the solidarity is honestly so helpful!! I have audible, and knew there were free options, but I hadn't had the capacity to explore the particulars. Thanks for the info, and I will check it out! I'm very slowly making my way through Tig Notaro's book right now, but it's almost...

@timothy91 Thanks for the advice. I feel like reading right now seems like a weird fantasy. We have two special needs dogs that are both old. One is in the last stages of heart failure, needs special food that we make her every few days, and struggles with incontinence, which means more laundry...

@fatefulslave This might work for us! We'd have to try on weekends, because my husband works nights to cover childcare (thanks covid), so doesn't get home until almost 1am on week nights. But if we can try for a couple nights, she might get the idea!

This is partly a cross-post from my bumper group, so sorry if I'm spamming like two of you. :) I have an almost 9-month-old. We co-sleep on a floor bed, and have not done any sleep training. She was consistently going to sleep around 5:30-6pm, and sleeping until 6:30-7am, with several (3? 4? I...