Feeling bad about disturbing neighbour with crying toddler at night...

[alittleteapot]

We've been doing a bit of light sleep training with ds the last week and our nights have not been great - a couple of spells in the night with him crying for between five and twenty mintues (we are there with him comforting him btw.) I worry about the downstairs neighbours a lot in the middle of the night - not sure how much they can hear but it must be a bit. We need to sort ds out as before he was comfort sucking for a lot of the night (we co-slept) leaving me constantly wiped out.

I guess it won't be long before his sleep is much improved but I'm just wondering what to do in the meantime. Guilt is made worse that I know if I feed him to sleep I can make him quiet immediately, but we so need to break the pattern (he's 18 months)
I guess I should just pop in and apologise and say we're sure this bad sleep phase will pass soon.

How do others balance just getting on with their normal lives and worrying about bothering neigbours? I'm pretty strict about when the children are allowed to partake in noiser activities etc. But the during-the-night stuff is tricky.

I would leave an explanatory note and a bottle of wine on the doorstep.

I wouldn't say that you were sleep training as that implies you could do something about it.

I would blame teething or something

Reassure them that it won't last long.

Thanks, that's the sort of thing I was thinking. Yes, don't want to own up to causing it!

i told my neighbour we were sleep training she was fine about it. I did ncss methods but its a misnomer that they involve no crying at all. But neighbour was totally cool about the whole thing, she even seemed pro cc tbh so probably thought we're too gentle!