Sleep training

[abday]

I am looking to sleep train my 1 year old. I am looking for advice on sleep training methods. I tried the let them cry it out method but the crying was just too much for me to handle.

If you want him sleeping independantly in the cot then he needs to be going from being fully awake to fully asleep all within the cot.

So putting him down already asleep or nearly asleep will not allow independant sleep to happen.

As to how to achieve that, there are dozens if different sleep training methods, but all have this same outcome at their heart. All aim to get baby settling to sleep in the cot.

There are gentle methods, these take much longer to hard to independant sleep (several months or even years).

Or there are harsh methods, which are very distressing but see independant sleep much quicker (within a week).

And everything in between.

So really it comes down to you deciding
(a) how urgently you feel you need baby independently sleeping
(b) what level of distress (from baby and you) you can cope with to achieve this.