Hi all
I know that many find the whole topic pretty abhorrent but we have now been attempting to sleep train our 9 month old boy for about 5 weeks and nothing seems to be working. We did it as I am back at work full time and our boy was waking 6/7/8/9 times a night and required us to rock him to sleep before waking for the day at 5. It seemed initially to work and the short term horror of what we had done seemed to be worth it with him sleeping much better. However, over the last couple of weeks, it is like we have never bothered, he only goes down ok if we put him down asleep and he stays asleep otherwise like tonight and last night, he screams for pretty much an hour before what I can only assume passing out.
I was on board with the sleep training if it achieved something but I feel like all we are doing is training him to keep crying until he can cry no more :( I thought the whole point (from research) was that the baby would learn that they were ok/safe to fall asleep without the need for one of us to rock him to sleep - i just can't see the point/see the benefit of listening him cry himself to sleep each night (we go in to him obviously and shh etc but don't pick him up).
Can I get some thoughts? Has anyone had a similar experience? Co-sleeping is not an option for us as I am such a light sleeper that I literally get no sleep. Help please?