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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you went in after 30 mins she learned if she screams long enough you will go in. If you are serious you need to not go back in. I sleep trained at 4.5 mos and the first night she cried for just over an hour. Yes I felt like a shit parent, yes I wanted to go in, but I didn’t. 2nd night was 30 mins, 3rd night 5 mins.... and done. We always put down drowsy but awake so she got used to falling asleep on her own. [/quote]

OP here.  Our expensive sleep consultant said to never let a baby cry for more than 30 minutes.  [/quote] did they say why? My kid is 8 now with no adverse affects. Slept from 8pm 7am by 5.5 months. I was a much better parent during the day than I would have been waking up twice a night still.[/quote]

OP here.  Consultant said extended crying get them too jacked up (my term) for restful sleep.  And something about stress hormones released.  I was told to go in and nurse her/settle her and then try again.  This made it worse.  As I would walk from the chair to the crib she’d start screaming.  [/quote]

OP, my son was a nap demon as well. I agree with your sleep trainer on the 30 minute thing bc my son was so far gone at that point there was no way he was settling to fall asleep. Here’s what worked for me right at 8 months- figuring out the proper schedule first (still rocking him to sleep and holding to extend if a nap was short). Once it was very easy to get him to sleep for both naps (and they were actually consolidated for the first nap of the day and sometimes longer for the second too), I nap trained. I did our same nap routine but didn’t rock him to sleep and put him in the crib wide awake. Set a timer for 20 mins. He was not asleep. Went and turned on the lights and told him what a great job he did and it was such a good nap. Pulled him out and played quietly in his room for 10 minutes. Did nap routine and attempted a nap again. He fell asleep within 5 minutes. Then for any nap he woke before 1 hr, I had him stay in the crib til an hour was up. He fell back asleep most of the time until both naps were consistently consolidated.

Ever since it’s never taken longer than 15 minutes for him to fall asleep and I wake him from most every nap. I’m telling you he was a nap demon and I never thought this would be possible. He’s an amazing day and night sleeper now.[/quote]

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