No sleep training

My baby is the same, but with a bottle. My pediatrician told me 4 months is a good age to start sleep training, but, tbh, I feel like never is enough of Mommy. I still miss mine and would love to sleep with her, so whatever, just follow your instinct. Time flies, and one day you'll miss sleeping with your baby. 🤍

My daughter was the same way, she wouldn’t sleep if I wasn’t holding her. A couple weeks ago I just bit the bullet and forced her into her crib for naps. It started off rough, took about 2 days to figure out her preferences and routine (dark room, sleep sack, fan on, brown noise, heating pad in crib removed before laying her down, and bouncing her to sleep instead of rocking). The first couple days she would fall asleep in my arms and I waited about 5 minutes before gently laying her down on her back and helping her roll onto her side. She would sleep for about 10 minutes independently the first few days, which meant we were doing more frequent naps. After she got more comfortable and started sleeping 25-30 minutes, and then she slept 45 minutes, and a few times she’s slept for 2.5 hours in her bed. She does still have the 10-20 minute naps during the day, but slowly starting to sleep longer. Next week we’re starting bedtime in the crib and my heart isn’t ready 🥲

We slowly transitioned to the crib a few weeks before I went back to work and our LO has taken all naps in his crib since then and as of a week ago we’ve been putting him to bed in his crib and he sleeps like 7:15-11 or 12 in his crib then we move him to our bed cause he won’t go back to sleep in the crib. Makes my heart a bit happy having him half the night lol but sad cause I want him to be able to sleep in his crib all night. On the weekends though I get some contact naps in since I miss out on so much time with him during the week.

Because i work full time... i am embracing my snuggles when I'm home.

I’m in the same boat right now. She falls asleep instantly when shes on boob. But 4/5 am hits and she does not want to sleep in her bassinet and will only fall asleep on my boob and we co sleep. So I’m trying out a modified Ferber method tonight for the next week to see if that helps

No judgment here for whatever route folks choose! But if you’re looking for some guidance that provides alternative to sleep training, Rachel of heysleepybaby (on IG and has a website) has some really helpful information. We do contact naps / co-sleeping cause baby won’t often sleep any your way, but I just got Rachel’s guide for slowly transitioning to more independent sleep. I dont think sleep training would work for ME (who knows about my baby lol) so I’m grateful Rachel has some alternative guidance / info

Tips I’ve found helpful& have actually implemented: •make sure she is getting most of her milkies in throughout the day. My guy seems to want the boob almost every hour sometime less once he wakes from his last nap until he dozes of for bedtime& then he only nurses to actually eat most nights •if he falls asleep on the boob unlatch and soothe back to sleep a different way before laying down to sleep! (This has been a game changer for my nips) •lanolin has soothed my raw nips like magic, highly recommend But idk take it all with a grain of salt bc my guy (5mo) use to nap in his playpen beautifully and now has refused to nap any other way but contact napping the past week but bed shares with me all night just fine.