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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sleep trained at 4.5 months. It took 2 nights and then she slept for 8 hours. The worst  time was from
9-11pm so that’s why we did it. We would put to bed at 8 then she would wake up
An hour later and be a tired cranky mess for 2 hours. It was awful. So the first night we put to bed at 8 as usual but when she woke at 9 we let her cry, tried checks at 10 min intervals twice but it made her worse so we stopped going in. She cried for an hour. We felt like the worse parents. Not gonna lie, it was hard. But after an hour she dozed off and slept til 4. 2nd night she cried for 45 mins. 3rd night 5 mins. So on night 3 slept from 8pm-4am. We have a bottle at 4am and she went back to sleep until 7. At 5 months she dropped that 4am feed herself and went for 11 hours every night. It was life changing, we were better rested so better parents during the day. She was happier getting more sleep. [/quote]

+1 I did this with all 5 of my kids.  I say this all the time, but it really sets the stage for all the structure and discipline children need to become happy, well behaved children and responsible adults.  Sounds dramatic but even babies need that structure in their lives.

My first one was the most like this. Once you know to put them down and they will learn to sleep 8-10 hours you start to do it with the next few babies naturally.

It literally is life changing. Even if they don't sleep all night at first, just to get them trained to go to bed at 7 or 8 and sleep until later in the morning it's worth it.

I hung up on my Mom when she told me to do this with my first.  (We lived 10 hours from her). Thank God my husband saw the light and said I think your Mother is right.

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