Does wait it out work?

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I'm wondering if there is any research/ evidence that people could direct me towards as to whether babies will organically start sleeping through by themselves.

I have a DS 13 mo who we sleep trained at 9 months and got him sleeping nine hours. However this has not held and we are back to feeding twice a night and waking at 4am for the day! We are not happy bunnies.

I don't think it's teething. He seems in no distress just has a very strong preference for mama and boob (screams at DH in night).

Should we wait it out or sleep train again? What does the evidence say?

I think with my DD if I'd waited for her to sleep through the night she'd still be breastfeeding at night now at the age of 4! She was a BF'ing addict. I read all the books and evidence that said she'd do it on her own but at 15 months she could wake up to 8 x a night for a feed (yes an extreme case).

My husband worked alot so never could do night duty - but I'd just had enough so when he was on holiday over Christmas he set up a camp bed in her room. After 5 nights she slept 9 hours - then shortly after that 11 hours. I think her tummy had got used to the night feed and also she was addicted to company when she did wake up.

I guess it all depends on how long you're willing to wait - I was at the end of my tether and couldn't cope any more. I needed some sleep!!
Here's our story if you're interested mydaughterwontsleep.com/2014/02/06/is-breast-best-when-it-comes-to-sleep-apparently-not/
Good luck!

This is just my experience and obviously not evidence but my ds was a really bad sleeper, it took hours to get him to sleep and then he'd wake up loads too and get up for the day early. He was just waking to check I was there I think, he wasn't feeding or anything like that. One night when he was about 2 and a half he just slept through. Since then he just sleeps through. I still had to sit with him whilst he fell asleep until he was 4 but now at almost 6 he gets tucked in and a kiss and goes off to sleep for 10/11 hours by himself.
Dd was waking for bf 2 hourly until she was 28 months when I'd had enough and fully weaned her, she wouldn't accept partial weaning so we stopped altogether. Not long after that she slept through, I still sit with her until she's asleep but it takes less than 5 minutes usually so I don't mind. She does sometimes come through to my bed in the middle of the night but doesn't wake me so I don't realise until morning.
There's been no sleep training here and they're both sleeping well now after a rubbish start.