My DS will be 4 months old next week and we want to start prepping for sleep training. I notice that a lot if people start doing it at this age, but can it be started if he's still sleeping in our room? I thought the AAP recommends that babies be in the parents' bedroom until 6 months? Should I start with just naps in his own room to get him uses to that and his crib? Thanks so much fellow mamas!
Re: When to put LO in his own room
As far as sleep training, you shouldn't start that until 6 months. Unless you want to try something gentle like No Cry Sleep Solution, in which case you can use some of those methods at 4 months.
We moved our little guy into his crib around 10 weeks. I wanted to transistion him to the crib before I went back to work at 12 weeks, He's been there ever since.
As for sleep training, I'd likewise be hesitant to try anything until 6 months. We didn't do it w DD1 until 8-9 months. We usually put DD 2 down drowsy but awake. There are times I nurse her to sleep or she falls asleep in my or DH's or DCP's arms. We just go with the flow at this point. (She's three months old.)