Aibu-sleep training

[Firsttimemam123]

Please tell me honestly, my baby was an excellent sleeper, sleeping through the night since 4 months old. She is now 6 months old, Learnt to roll and started waking herself up 4/5/6 times a night. We would turn her back onto her back and she would immediately flip back onto her tummy and cry. I couldn’t cope with the sleep deprivation especially after having near perfect sleep for 2 months so my husband and I have decided to start some gentle sleep training to get her back on track and so far it has made a huge difference, she’s really improved. My husbands brother wants us to join him in their holiday home next weekend for the bank holiday, all my husbands family will be there. I think it’s a terrible idea to move our baby to a new environment in the middle of this sleep training and we should give this weekend a miss. My husband thinks I’m using it as an excuse to not go away with his family which is absolutely not true. I just feel that it’s bad enough we are leaving her to cry and self soothe for intervals at a time, I really feel it would be cruel to do it in an unfamiliar environment. I’m also concerned that if we pause the sleep training for the weekend, it will undo all the good progress we have made. It’s been hard enough not to run to her when she cries, I don’t want it to have all been for nothing. Aibu?

@Chasetherainblownfearsaway where is there martyrdom in discussing normal baby development?

@BuffaloCauliflower oh go away already you're getting increasingly tiresome

We've evolved an extremely large number of things that harm us. Look at the weight loss or relationship threads and you'll find lots of behaviours that harm us.

That aside my baby is now able to sleep though after consistent sleep training. It worked. I don't have scientific evidence but you haven't presented any either and your only argument is the naturalistic fallacy, which is as unscientific as it gets.

I'm quite surprised that no one else seems to suggest the sleep training is for the baby, not just the parent and that avoiding disrupting it might be better.

My baby slept terribly for months, and would be yawning and eye rubbing when awake but still unable to stay asleep for more than one cycle. Sleep is now not a problem after consistent sleep training, and I have a happy baby as a result. I think getting better sleep has made the world of difference.

I would absolutely stay at home. Once you've started sleep training, it needs to be followed through and going somewhere else can certainly throw it off which would mean all of that hard work for nothing.

Sleep training isn't popular on here so ignore the negative comments.

Exactly.

Those against sleep training usually completely ignore the fact that babies need sleep and that sleep is also essential for development and growth.

If you don't want to go with the baby, perhaps your partner could go? That way it's a compromise.
Regarding sleep training. I did it with my daughter when she was 6 months old. She is now 19. We have an extremely close relationship and she is not 'broken' after 'suffering' 3 nights of sleep training when she was a baby.
It is better for the baby to sleep as much as it is better for you.

"Sleep training isn't popular on here so ignore the negative comments."

Or maybe read them and then make up your mind?

She has already made up her mind. She wasn't asking if she should sleep train.