Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow

This thread is basically an advertisement for sleep training

Lol. I think the original question is limiting the responses to these extremes because she asks for "after 1." We didn't sleep train and our kid definitely slept independently through the night by age 1.

Yep, it was intentional. I only want to hear from the extreme bad sleepers (like mine!).

Anonymous wrote:1 month after I fully weaned for each.

Yes, basically the same. It think night weaning is more the key than sleep training.

Lucky me - she hasn’t woken up in the night since 8 months old

My sister didn't sleep train her five kids. Her kids were all in bed with her and her husband until they were anywhere from five to eight. (Her kids were very spread out in age, so she never had more than three actually in bed with her at once.)

Anonymous wrote:Wow

This thread is basically an advertisement for sleep training

Lol. I think the original question is limiting the responses to these extremes because she asks for "after 1." We didn't sleep train and our kid definitely slept independently through the night by age 1.

Wow

This thread is basically an advertisement for sleep training

4?

She woke us up multiple times a night for 2 years. She was in our bed, to make it easier for everyone. Then we switched her to her bed, but she would wake up and go into ours. I think she stopped doing that at around 4.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 month after I fully weaned for each.

I still lay with them to go to bed at 13 and 10.

You lay with them until they fall asleep or for a few minutes to snuggle and chat?

Anonymous wrote:1 month after I fully weaned for each.

I still lay with them to go to bed at 13 and 10.

Not me, but my niece is still waking up at age 5. Her older brother stopped some time as a toddler. Maybe age 3 or so?

1 month after I fully weaned for each.

She stopped scream-crying every night around age 3.5 or so but is now almost 7 and still wakes in the night and calls for us or comes to our room to get us about 1x per week. It’s a lot easier now bc she isn’t screaming and crying like she used to be when younger but she still wants us to come “fix her blanket” or wants a hug and for us to sit w her for a few mins. Then every few months or so she’ll have a night where she wakes and wants us to come to her room multiple times. Just had a night like that last week. It was the night before they went back to school after winter break and I think she was nervous about school starting back which led her to wake up and want a parent to stay w her 5-6x in one night. She’s in first grade.

Oh and we didn’t intentionally not sleep train her. We tried. Oh how we tried. It just never worked. We tried every sleep training method there is and we tried repeatedly—probably every few months from the time she was 4 months old. It never worked. None of the methods made any difference. We even went to a sleep consultant/specialist. We have other kids who we either successfully sleep trained (child #3) or else never had to sleep train bc they always slept well (child #1).

1.5ish? I still sit with him until he falls asleep at 4, but he doesn’t wake me between falling asleep and getting up in the morning unless something is actually wrong. For me it corresponded to weaning — when I stopped nursing him during night wake ups he lost interest.

8. She would still come in our bed and sleep with us because my spouse refused to sleep train. This was our only significant parenting conflict. We finally insisted that she stop on her 8th birthday.

My advice: Sleep train. The short-term pain is worth not being woken up for many years to come.

Not responding to any comments about sleep training.

If you didn’t sleep train and your kid was still waking up past age 1, what age did your child sleep through the night 100% of the time? No more coming into your bed, cosleeping or crying for you etc.