When people say "sleep training" do they mean CC?

[Imnotbeverley]

My nearly 6 mo DS is a terrible sleeper (was good until 4 months- classic I know). Often he wakes every hour or so, is EBF (and refuses a bottle, I wanted to stop bf about 6 weeks ago) so although his father is very supportive often only I will do.

I am considering sleep training but I think he is too young, so more thinking of in a couple of months time. But, do people mean they did controlled crying? I'm not sure I could do that, although I am at my wits end with the tiredness and desperate for some sleep. Are there gentler methods that actually work?

Not always cc - can mean gradual retreat - I'd just google I think their is a wide range. I agree cc for 6 month old feels wrong.

I don't think sleep training means cc.

When I was confident mine were eating enough during the day and only feeding for comfort at night bit older that 6 months. I did a kind of shush, pat and pick up put down.

Some people do assume you mean leaving them to cry until they're sick, but sleep training covers a whole range of techniques.

We used a sleep consultant at www.sleepbabies.co.uk she only does the gentler approaches, it takes longer but he does now sleep through the night. Sian called it sleep coaching, teaching him how to fall asleep, I never left him to cry alone, wouldn't have felt right for me. She called it gradual withdrawal so maybe search for that