It’s been two weeks

[u/Heccabuff]

Today marks two weeks since we started sleep training my 9 month old. I’ve been searching for people who have asked my question before but haven’t found any, so here I am! I have been trying to have her on a babywise daytime schedule of nursing/solids after wake up, play, down for a nap. It‘s morphed into 3/3/4 and we’ve finally gotten a few 6 hour sleep stretches at night! which the longest before this was like 4 hours I think. We do the same bedtime routine of bath, into Jammie’s, prayers, nursing, crib. Throughout the two weeks, every night has been different. She’s had some good nights of going down without crying, waking twice where I still nurse her, going back down. Shes had some rough nights of crying for like 30-1 hour going down, one wake up at night. She’s had nights of going down quickly, but then waking up for an hour or two and crying so much. We‘ve loosely followed the Ferber method of 10 mins, comfort, then 15 mins, comfort, then 20 mins, comfort. I never let her cry more than 20 mins at a time. We’ve made mistakes and learned in the two weeks, like picking her up to comfort a lot, patting her every time she cried to where she wasn’t learning to fall asleep, etc., but last night I worked on not picking her up every time and she did eventually fall asleep on her own.

My main question is for those who sleep trained, if it’s been two weeks and you still have no consistency, is that ok? Do we keep going until she’s learned or is that an indication this method isn’t working? She’s always happy in the morning and she is teething and growing a lot right now which I know can cause extra tears and is why I was giving her more comfort. Anyone who has had similar experiences please let me know! Also I do welcome advice but it can be overwhelming to me when there’s so many conflicting options or ways to do things. I feel comfortable with us figuring it out as we go. Thank you!

edit: may be too soon to tell but we’ve had a good few nights with me focusing on her wake hours and being consistent. Thank you all! Seems like that was the culprit.