Give me your sleep training success stories!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sleep trained and it went great, but I set sleep habit expectations early so the sleep training was just the icing on the cake. My DD slept 8 hours through the night at 6 weeks and 12 hours through the night at 11 weeks.

Minimal breastfeeding helped. Not gonna lie.

There's a special place in hell for people who were gifted naturally good sleepers and think it comes down to their superior parenting.

I may not go that strong as I think it's a natural inclination to want to think things were our parenting when things go well, but I agree it's incredibly frustrating. The parents with decent newborn sleepers tell me the things they did as if I didn't do EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE THINGS. Of course I did. It's all over the internet, all the basics. The vast majority of us are doing it. Sadly it works for some and not others.

Except the vast majority of parents of bad sleepers *aren't* doing it all like you are. I can't tell you how many people I know who have "bad sleepers" but aren't doing the basics you reference. No schedule/routine to speak off, rocking to sleep, not using white noise and black out curtains, refusing to take a sleep class/read a sleep book because "it's too much work." When my friends and I had little kids, I heard lots of "this baby fits into my life, not the other way around." And those parents inevitably had kids who could catnap anywhere and weren't beholden to a nap schedule like DH and I were, but those kids struggled to STTN well into their infant year/toddlerhood. I think it's more fascinating that parents put 100% of the blame on their kids and 0% on themselves haha.

In any event, I am truly sorry that you've struggled and glad things are on the up and up!

[Anonymous]

Routine. Stick with a routine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sleep trained and it went great, but I set sleep habit expectations early so the sleep training was just the icing on the cake. My DD slept 8 hours through the night at 6 weeks and 12 hours through the night at 11 weeks.

Minimal breastfeeding helped. Not gonna lie.

There's a special place in hell for people who were gifted naturally good sleepers and think it comes down to their superior parenting.

I may not go that strong as I think it's a natural inclination to want to think things were our parenting when things go well, but I agree it's incredibly frustrating. The parents with decent newborn sleepers tell me the things they did as if I didn't do EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE THINGS. Of course I did. It's all over the internet, all the basics. The vast majority of us are doing it. Sadly it works for some and not others.

Except the vast majority of parents of bad sleepers *aren't* doing it all like you are. I can't tell you how many people I know who have "bad sleepers" but aren't doing the basics you reference. No schedule/routine to speak off, rocking to sleep, not using white noise and black out curtains, refusing to take a sleep class/read a sleep book because "it's too much work." When my friends and I had little kids, I heard lots of "this baby fits into my life, not the other way around." And those parents inevitably had kids who could catnap anywhere and weren't beholden to a nap schedule like DH and I were, but those kids struggled to STTN well into their infant year/toddlerhood. I think it's more fascinating that parents put 100% of the blame on their kids and 0% on themselves haha.

In any event, I am truly sorry that you've struggled and glad things are on the up and up!

This. A few moms I know have bad sleepers and I know why. But I can’t tell them. I have to nod and listen when they tell me about their one year not sleeping.

[Anonymous]

Food. Pediatrician suggested starting food at 3 months before bedtime so baby would sleep through the night. Worked like a charm. Rice cereal is all she needed.

[Anonymous]

DD slept in own room from day one and was bottle fed ( adopted). We always put down drowsy and never rocked to sleep. At 4.5 mos did CIO. She would go to bed at 8 then wake up at 9/930 and he cranky and miserable before going back to to sleep around 11, it was brutal. So we aimed for the time to go longer. First night she cried an hour and a half. 2nd night 45 mins. 3rd night 5 mins. Every night after, didn’t wake up. So slept from 8pm-4am, then bottle at 4 but right back to sleep til 7ish. Then around a month later dropped that 4am feed herself so was sleeping 8pm-7am around 5.5 mos.,