sleep training

First time mom here. I have a 2 month old (he'll be almost 3 months by the time I return to work) & he will be coming to work with me. My work hours start at 5 am. Right now, my baby is on a bedtime routine where he'll sleep about 5 hrs through the night. It is the longest stretch of sleep he...

How do I “extend” an independent nap? To atleast an 60-90 mins. As of right now my 22 week old Wakes up @ 7-7:30AM First nap- 9-9:30 AM Which I rock her to sleep and then I HAVE to hold her bc she wakes up within 20-25 mins (even in my arms) but is cranky within 45-60 mins if I don’t put her...

I wanted to share this in the hope that it might help someone who is going through something similar. My baby was waking every 1-2 hours at night to nurse for weeks and I was about to lose my mind until we figured it out. TLDR: (the short version!) My EBF baby J is now 5 months old. We had 2...

We sleep trained my 4.5 month old using CIO but I’m a little stumped with where we are now. We’ve gotten to a point where he does one of two things: Falls asleep without crying, but wakes up a short while later (e.g., 15 mins) and cries for 20 mins before falling asleep again. Cries for...

I started Ferber last night on my 17 week old baby boy. He has never slept in a crib always cried despite all my attempts. Here is how last night went: His daytime WW are 1.5-1.75h (together with yawning/eye rubs) with 3-4 contact naps of 0.5-1.5h for a total of 3h. Bedtime was 2h after last WW...

LO is 15 weeks old and I think we are headed into the "4 mo sleep regression" as of last night. Before last few days she was doing great, would go down easily around 8pm and sleep until 3:30, then down again until I would wake her to take her to her nanas house since I am back at work (7:30am)...

We’ve been using the sitback method on our 9 week old since she was about 4 weeks. We saw some progress in the beginning but about two weeks ago her bedtime changed from 10/11pm to 6:30/7:30pm which she seems to like much more. Once she changed bedtimes, we decided to add a dream feed 3 hrs...

I am really struggling with sleep for my 9 month old boy. We did modified Ferber for bedtime at about 5 months which worked well enough for a while he was putting himself to sleep at bedtime pretty quickly (a week or two of illness and he lost the skill and it was right when he could stand up...

We've tried several things with naps and wake windows before just going to full cio overnight. After almost an hour he settled and fell asleep on his own. But a few minutes later he started crying, just a bit and he resettled. This cycle of asleep for a few minutes, little bit of crying...

Okay so my robust, extremely proficient at rolling, 7.5 month old baby… f*cking HATES being put in his cot and will scream bloody murder if put ‘butt in bed’ awake. I’m talking a blood curdling scream, coughing, shrieking. Hates it. Anyway so at the moment what I’m doing is he will protest and...

I think he would be more efficient at training but only 1-3 minutes into his windows, he turns himself sideways and headbutts the bars, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. How are we to go about this without popping in every couple of minutes?

We technically didn’t sleep train (one night was very rough and we had to track back) but did end up weaning pacifier at night time. It used to help LO (6mo) fall asleep instantly, independently with no intervention whatsoever the very first time put down awake. But pacifier was causing him to...

I live at home and I also have a 10 month old daughter. I work full time as a nurse on second shift, so I get home pretty late. I usually get home from work around 1AM. With that being said, my mother takes care of my daughter while I’m at work. When I come home at night, my daughter is waking...

Somehow, the daycare ladies are able to get my 5.5mo to nap for 3 hours in the middle of the day, usually 11:00-2:00. However this is creating a problem with not enough awake time spaced out over the day resulting in split nights and EMW. The daycare said they legally cannot wake him any earlier...

Please share any and all wisdom you've learned for two little ones! We're expecting Baby in late spring, and LO (who is sleep trained) will be a little over a year and a half then.

Our 18-, almost 19-month old used to sleep through the night. Bedtime routine started at 7:30 with his bath, bedtime story, bottle, bed routine and him falling asleep between 8 and 9 p.m. sleeping through the night till we wake him up at 6:15 to get him ready for daycare. Lately he's been...

My 4.5 month twin girls have been better at sleeping in their cribs so now I feel a bit less guilty about sleep training lol My issue with their sleep is getting them into bed (without milk) and without being rocked for 2+ hours almost every night. Twin B put herself to sleep last night...

Hi everyone! Lately my 2 (n about 1 week) month old daughter has been having a lot of trouble sleeping during the day. I’m talking like 13 minute / 20 minute increments… lucky to get a 40 minute nap out of her. She goes to work with me, but I’m a caregiver for a family member, so I’m able to...

I joined the r/sleeptrain community around this time last year, as a desperate FTM to a then 4mo navigating sleep training, the 4-3 transition, PPD, and the whole shebang. It’s been a crazy journey. I talked to countless parents here over the year to learn, exchange tips, have friendly...

I would be more than happy to keep bed sharing and breastfeeding at night until he decides he’s ready to stop, except I just found out I’m pregnant. I want to wean him and sleep train him before the new baby comes and I was hoping someone with a similar experience could share how they did it...