To ask did you sleep train your child(ren)

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I'm not posting this to start a debate about sleep training, although I'm sure it will kick off anyway. But I'm genuinely interested to know roughly what proportion of parents sleep train. By sleep train I mean any method that involves baby crying for any length of time, or leaving baby in cot for any length of time unhappily (including 'gentler' methods such as pick up put down). I had a discussion with a mum friend and we had very different estimations of how common it is.

Sleep training was the best thing we did. Huge mistake not to sleep train the first.

Co-slept with both of ours. We bought a bit, top quality mattress, bedding, protectors etc. It was used for twenty minutes.
Felt totally counter-intuitive to have a baby/small child in another room.
Plus, breastfeeding was SO much easier when co-sleeping. Especially because I have a really stressful job and went back to work far too early with both of them.

Cot, not bit 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sleep train seems such a funny phrase to me. But yes my babies cried in their cots for a few minutes and were then spark out.

@MikeyEh

Did anyone else only need to do this for naps?

DS is fantastic at nighttime, sleeps in his cot right through on his own but will not nap in the day unless he's on me.

We did, @MikeyEh. DD was a great nighttime sleeper but would only nap on a person and by 7 months the contact napping was killing me. We did the Ferber method for naps and it was a lifesaver.

We didn't, DB SIL did, I remember being at their house in the evening before we even had DS and DN was crying and crying after waking up and they both just ignored it, it made my stomach churn.
The only thing we have done with DS is to disrupt his sleep cycle as he was having night terrors around 1am. HV suggested when we go up to bed around eleven to go in and just settle him/tuck him in again, he stirs slightly but doesn't wake and it's stopped the night terrors!

@RedHelenB

Sleep train seems such a funny phrase to me. But yes my babies cried in their cots for a few minutes and were then spark out.

A few minutes is one thing, someone earlier was talking about leaving their baby to cry for two hours!