Sleep Training with No Tears
spiffybaby posted 14 weeks 23 hours ago — The phrase sleep training often brings cringing thoughts of sobs and tears to parents, and many simply can’t imagine letting their baby cry on his own to fall asleep. Of course, rocking him or nursing him to sleep every night for the next three years isn’t such a great option either. So where does that leave parents who realize babies should learn to sleep on their own, but don’t want to make baby cry?
Unfortunately, as with everything else baby-related, there is rarely a one-size-fits-all solution. We tried this approach with our son, and while at times he went to sleep beautifully mostly on his own, most of the time it was a much bigger battle than that. I remember many many times of trying to set him down mostly asleep and having him wake up, and needing to repeat 4-5 times or more(often taking a few hours at a time) It seemed his ability to fall asleep on his own changed from week to week. It was exhausting, to say the least, and if we were still using this approach I'm betting I;d still be spending half of my day just trying to get him to sleep on most days.