Comments on: Sleep Training – Why We are Doing it

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:43:55 +0000

Probably mentioned a ton of times in these comments already but….you can avoid having to do a big sleep training transition when your baby is older by doing things from certain books/techniques from very early on. Habits are formed early (like not letting your baby use breastfeeding or a bottle to go to sleep, keeping them up enough during the day so they’re tired at night, being conscious of having noise and light around in daytime and quiet and dark at night so they learn the difference, etc) so doing things from a few weeks old means you will have less to do later. We used BabyWise (not super strictly) and our baby was sleeping 12 hours by 4 months old. We did have to work through a little 4-month sleep regression but we had such good habits going that we got through it fairly easily and quickly with some adjustments. I know each baby is different and parents prefer different things, but I just wanted first-time moms to know that it’s never too early to start good sleeping habits and it WILL pay off later in some way!

By: Suzi

Suzi — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:41:07 +0000

Nothing against a baby sleeping all night that is great but every time you post something about Riley is how good he sleeps and all the naps he takes. Is he ever awake?

By: Ruby

Ruby — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:55:00 +0000

I’m not ashamed to admit I sleep trained my baby mostly for my own benefits! As a single mom I was incredibly tired and I wanted to sleep train ASAP! I used Susan Ubran’s how to teach a baby to fall asleep guide as soon as my baby turned 4 months. And that was the best decidion ever!
Would I have someone over to sleep train for me? I am not sure… It was pretty emotional time, those 3-4 first nights, I am not sure if I wanted to share it with someone else. But maybe it beacuse I’m single and used to having the baby all to myself!