Sleep training is rough. One approach is to lock their door and let them cry it out. first night can be an hour long. second night should be much less. by the 4th night they generally stop trying to get your attention. but all of your instincts will be to give in and soothe them.
another approach is to let them ruin your nights for years and they will be sleeping in your bed until they are embarrassingly old.
I am a big fan of the second approach apparently.
Sleep training like that is a bit extreme imo, we started with a much lower threshold (5 mins) and only expanded a little bit (+5-10 mins) until our kids started to adjust. Worked well enough for them, they were sleeping mostly uninterrupted regularly around 4-5 months. Some regressions happen but we just apply the same technique and they’re back to regular in a couple days.
At 6 months. Can’t wait lol
How’re they sleeping now
Down at around 8pm. Dream feed at 1130 (w/ diaper change). Then he’s good till about 6am when I get up for work.
He’s our first but it seems like we got really lucky with him sleeping well.
That’s pretty good! I think you can probably stop dream feeding within the next couple weeks too :) ours is the same except recently. He would sleep from 7-6!
