Gentle sleep training techniques

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Hi everyone

My little girl is 3 1/2 months so I want to start sleep training to help her self soothe but I want something gentle and doesn’t involve her crying it out.

could anyone recommend any techniques that has worked for them and how they implemented it.

Depends on your baby a bit, but shush pat worked well for my first DC. Look up the Baby Whisperer. It didn't work for my second that's why I say it depends on your baby 😅

Great thank you I’ll take a look

We did gradual retreat, which may be the same as shush pat. We did it though when he was about 15 months old, but I did use parts of it with my second when she was about 6 months. I know that how you do it differs depending on the baby's age (we had a sleep consultant). Worked well for us, in fact was a dream with DS who was sleeping terribly.

@kiwibluewhat is gradual retreat?

I think at that age it will be, white noise and shush pat method.

For 15 month old DS it went along lines of, for three nights pat them and repeat phrase like "it's sleepy time", for three nights pat the mattress, then sit by the cot, then move your chair away, eventually you're outside the room. I think for a young baby shush pat sounds appropriate.