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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here - have been trying to get her to sleep tonight without rocking her to sleep and she’s been crying for 40 minutes already. It’s so painful.[/quote]

So DONT DO IT. Sometimes I am amazed at how parents think all kids need the same thing and will respond the same way. If you have to keep retraining them, then it just seems cruel to me. They have needs- even when its nighttime- even if those needs are a hug. he/she could be having nightmare, gas, etc. and y'all just sit there and listen to them cry....because one day it will stop? 
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I don’t want anyone to do anything they don’t want to do. No one needs to cry it out. You can cosleep!

But it’s perfectly acceptable to prioritize everyone’s independent sleep. I need that to be a good parent. We did it from go - basically everything Taking Cara Babies says. Which doesn’t mean a lot of crying, in fact we didn’t have to “sleep train” at all.

In some cases (not all! I know!) because of the kind of half start, check ins, letting them cry 10 minutes and caving you’ve “trained” the child to cry for a long time just as much as “sleep training” trains them not to. So then you have to deal with some rough nights to undo it.

My point is just pick one and follow through, because being wishy washy probably contributed a lot to OP being in a tough place now. 
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