Sleep training

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Our baby was born 27th October and since about 2 months he’s slept through… he goes for his bath at 6pm.. out and dressed by 6:45.. bottle and asleep by 7 and he sleeps through till around 6:00am-7:30am and honestly the only think that wale can put it down to is his routine! He knows when it’s getting near bath time and gets so upset if he’s not in the bathroom by 6! X

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I did the Ferber method with my first. It took 3 days and she just got that I’m not coming in to pick her up. Made sure I didn’t pick her up when she cried but I was soothing her by patting and shushing. BUT she was 6 months when I did this. I’ve now got a 4.5 month old. Going some sleep training (getting off the dummy and trying to pat her but not pick up) but I’m not fully into it yet as I think they’re still quite young and I don’t want to go full steam ahead with it just yet. My eldest has slept through pretty much every night since I started sleep training but it is an ongoing process. The key is consistency, if I picked her up one night if she was ill then I’d kind of had to start again. Hope this helps x

With my first I did it just before 5 months, a kind of gradual withdrawal method. I knew she could self-settle as I'd seen her do it and she already slept through the night. She was very difficult to settle in the evenings and for naps though, hated being moved asleep. I figured out she didn't like being distracted either, so I sat in her dark room and when she got upset, sang, then stopped, then repeat if she got upset again. Over a couple of weeks she didn't need me to sing anymore. This October baby I've been doing similar, so he can self-settle for naps pretty consistently, might just need me to sing over the monitor. Bedtime he finds a bit harder but he's not as difficult as my first was! He still wakes sometimes at night 1-2 times so I just feed him then.

@Eve my baby has a dummy would you say for them to be able to self soothe to get rid of the dummy? x

I got rid of the dummy and she wakes only once in the night to be fed. The dummy does interfere with settling.

@Elena people say different things.. some say a dummy is a self settling ‘tool’ in which they use to self settle, others say that because of that they arnt able to self settle themselves therefore they can’t self settle on their own. Both of my girls had a dummy. I’ve just taken my dummy off cold turkey from my 4.5 month old (because she was waking in the night if it fell out) and she’s gone from waking 5+ times a night to only once for a feed. My first little girl had one for naps, but she slept amazingly for her naps and slept through the night every night since she was 7 weeks old😵‍💫 then started wanting it in the night and so made the decision to take it off her. Do what you think is best, if your baby isn’t waking in the night for it then I don’t see the issue until it is an issue if that makes sense. Only advice I’d give is if you chose to take it away, don’t cave and give it back.. you’ll have to start all over again😅

I have not done any sleep training and my baby sleeps amazingly. Praying it doesn’t change lol. He goes down super easily around 8pm and sleeps until 8/9am, with one very quick feed wake around 4am

We also did the ferber method with our first and she took to it really quickly, so we will do the same with our second too x