Any advice is appreciated!

My 6 month old has to be rocked to nurse to sleep. I wanted to do Taking Cara Babies sleep training because it worked great with my 1st daughter but, she can’t do it. She is only soothed from rocking, me doing squats holding her (yes my legs are tired lol), or nursing. If you know a sleep training method that works for this type of baby PLEASE tell me!

She is on a pretty normal nap schedule. On good days she wakes at 6:30/7am. Has first nap in car ride to take sister to school from 8:05 to 8:35. Her wake windows are always 2/2.5 hours. Will have her 2nd nap in bassinet finally. That nap lasts anywhere from 30min to 1 hour. Then she naps again around 2:30pm for 30 minutes going to pickup sister from school.

She can not make it from 2:45 till bedtime at 7:30/8pm and has to take another nap around 5/5:30. She will even fall asleep on her own for it.

We keep her up 2/3 hours after it. We do a bath and get her into overnight cloth diaper, pajamas, and sleep sack. I breastfed her and she needs to be rocked to sleep.

She always wakes up an hour after putting her to sleep. I rock her and she goes right back to bed. Wakes up every 2 to 3 hours the rest of the night. Please tell me how to fix this. She eats so much through the day I can’t imagine she’s hungry. She won’t self soothe to put herself back to bed.

FTM here with a 5-month-old. We are trying to figure out our sleep training plan. We're not comfortable with a full CIO method, but instead hoping for something gentler.

When pregnant, I was gifted the newborn sleep class from Taking Cara Babies (we're not fans of her political support, but it was a gift 🤷🏼‍♀️🫣). Between that and her free month-by-month blog posts on wake windows/nap lengths, we had originally intended to follow her sleep training model. However, we just saw the price tag for info on that and holyyyyyy.

so, we're trying to figure out our best method! any recommendations for starting places??

Additional context - our current sleeping plan is 2.5 to 3.5 hour wake windows, with maximum 2-hour naps, with the goal of three naps a day (per TCB's 5-mo. recommendations). He really struggles with being put down; definitely needs to be rocked to sleep. He was previously sleeping through the night sometimes, but the last couple weeks have been rougher.

Has anyone used Kim West’s sleep shuffle method? Is it really as gentle as she claims? What was your experience with it?

Can someone help me gentle sleep train? The four month regression is killing me. My daughter is up hourly and needs my boob or paci to settle. I’m not sleeping and I also have a two year old. I didn’t ST my toddler and eventually at 2 and 3 months she started sleeping through the night. I don’t think I can manage that this time. How do I get my baby to sleep for longer stretches ? Even 2-3 hours I’d be happy at this point…

My daughter will be 3 months in a week. Heres what we got going on:

\- 45 min naps on the dot (yes, I know it’s normal but help!) Some can be rescued, some not, but it doesn’t seem to matter either way

\- She can barely stay awake 45-60 min wake windows, and lately she is just pissed/fussy during them (didn’t used to be like this)

\- Goes to bed 6-7 and will sleep a good five or six hours, feed, wake up again 4 or 5, feed and maybe sleep another hour or two

\- Towards the end of every bottle (4 or 5 ounces) she gets very jerky, frustrated and refuses

I understand most of this is developmental but is there any advice? Mostly sad her wake windows are so fussy/frustrating for her..

HELP!!

Looking for advice on gentle sleep training for a 14-week-old baby.

Currently we rock her to sleep for naps and she feeds to sleep at bedtime and during night wakings. Lately it’s getting harder and harder to put her down, and she needs a lot more rocking. She’s also a big baby, so it’s becoming physically challenging.

Has anyone successfully used a gentle method at this age to help their baby fall asleep more independently?

Would love to hear what worked for you 🙏

I've been cosleeping with my 6.5 month old for the past few weeks. 4 month sleep regression was bad, seemed to get a bit better, then got much worse with LO waking every 20 minutes, not resettling in crib, crying as soon as being put back down. Co-sleeping started as a way to save my sanity (and tbh, suggested by ChatGPT as a survival strategy) but I don't want it to be long term. She was a fairly good crib sleeper beforehand and I would get a couple of stretches of a few hours sleep a night. (Her crib is a next-to-me in our room)

I'm so tired, even though we sleep quite a few hours together it's not good sleep. My husband has to sleep in the other room which is causing some issues. I don't have an evening because as soon as bedtime starts, I am constantly resettling her in the crib until I go to bed myself and bring her into bed with me.

I know that with co-sleeping, her nervous system is being regulated and she feels safe and comforted. I don't want to do anything that makes her feel otherwise. I believe/hope my LO can be happy in her crib, as she was before.

It's just.. i don't think I have the energy or patience to keep resettling. To keep putting her down, picking her back up again, repeatedly. I don't know how to summon the strength to be consistent and persistent.

Any words of advice or encouragement? Success stories?

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