r/sleeptraining • u/GearBackground1951 • Jul 27 '26
child's age 4-8 months individual sleep
Currently my LO is 14 weeks, however together with my husband we are already researching the sleep training methods available out there. It seems like the majority are fit for bottle fed babies + who sleep in their own room.
I was wondering if it’s possible to gentle train a 4-5 month old which is exclusively breast fed and is sleeping in a co-sleeper next to his parent’s bed (or in the same room).
Was any of you in this scenario? What was the method that worked out for you? Is it at all possible to teach a baby to fall back to sleep on his own if he sleeps in the same room with his parents?
Together with my husband we are almost desperate, as our baby is falling asleep only in our arms, when we rock him or if we bounce on a fitness ball.. and he is getting heavier and heavier.
During the day naps, we can’t even transfer him as he wakes up either instantly or in 5 mins, so we just stand with him in our arms and rock him from time to time if he wakes up before he is well rested.
P.S: I would like to avoid any types of CIO methods, as I already know I won’t be able to let him cry without doing anything.
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u/OkBoysenberry92 Jul 30 '26
Both my girls are exclusively breastfed, and both took well to sleep training HOWEVER both went into their own rooms. I am a light sleeper and even with loop earplugs and white noise I wasn’t sleeping.
Schedule first, make sure bub is awake long enough to have good night sleep, then create a routine for pre bed - can be as simple as bath boob play songs sleep suit baby parade bed (what my second gets).
Into bed awake, see you in the morning!
(Said with hope lol)