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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sleep training means teaching the baby to sleep independently, NOT cutting out night feedings.

We taught our baby from the moment we brought him home that he can fall asleep independently.

It was actually much easier than having him cry at 4 months, because when you first bring the baby home, he does not know that he can fall asleep on you/rocked. He will basically fall asleep the way you teach him. He only ever fussed for 2-3 minutes at a time initially - sometimes no, sometimes yes. Same after he woke up to eat at night (he woke up to eat up until around 3 months because he needed food, but he would go back to sleep by himself after the feeding, no rocking, etc.), we would put him back into his bed. There he would fuss for 2-3 minutes sometimes and would then fall asleep. There were a few times where he fussed for more than 3 minutes, we would go stroke him and shhhh him so that he knows we are there, and he would then fall asleep. So much easier to teach this skill from birth. Again, has nothing to do with not feeding. In fact, at night, when he woke up, we knew he was waking up because he WAS HUNGRY and not just unable to connect sleep cycles on his own. [/quote]

Bawhahahahaha. You had an easy baby. I had a shrieking banshee vomit machine.[/quote]

I mean, congrats to you, I'm glad this worked out for you, but we tried all of this, right from jump, and it worked for about a week and then the wheels came off the wagon. My baby basically didn't learn to fuss until he was about 6 months old. Before that - he was eating, sleeping, or screaming bloody murder. Fussing for 2-3 minutes would have been delightful. Hell, fussing for 20 would have been delightful. And I think it's pretty clear that the OP does not have your type of baby. [/quote]

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