About sleep training. LO is rocked to sleep, then placed in her crib for the night. She STTN about 70-75% of the time. The other nights, she's usually up once or twice and I'm able to get her back to sleep by rocking her. I don't necessarily mind rocking her to sleep. I enjoy it, because it's the only time she'll let me hold her. She is all over the place, constantly moving/playing, and doesn't want to sit still. It would be convenient if she could put herself to sleep, but it's not a must IMO. Her normal bedtime is between 7:30pm and 8pm unless she takes a late nap, then it's more like 8:30pm (2 1/2 to 3 hours after her last nap). She's usually up for the day around 6am.
I guess I'm just wondering if she will eventually figure out how to go to sleep on her own or do I just need to go ahead and sleep train. I've talked to several people I know and none of them have sleep trained their babies. They just let them grow out of the phase and deal with getting up in the MOTN. I just don't know which would be best for her. My husband and I are torn about what to do. I guess I just wanted some opinions from others.
Re: I Don't Know What To Do...
I figure (and I may be wrong) that if she STTN most of the time, then she knows how to put herself back to sleep, and the nights that she doesn't are when she needs help. My LO is the same, and we've seen her stir at a loud noise or something and then put her thumb in her mouth and go back to sleep. Other times (not often) she can't get herself back to sleep.
I feed her to sleep at night FWIW.
I would disagree. Once LO can stand, don't know if yours can, it is VERY hard to sleep train. It doesn't mean you can never rock LO to sleep if you enjoy it, but you don't have "plenty of time" IMO
DH and his twin brother made their parents lay with them to go to sleep every night till they were 9...
It sounds like you are enjoying this time with your daughter. I feel sleep training is for people that the night wakings are causing problems. Do what feels right but don't feel pressure to sleep train because people make you feel you should.
I for one enjoy the night time cuddles and we are all getting enough sleep so I don't plan on sleep training.
I rock my LO to sleep at night because he his falls asleep with that last bottle and then I hold him upright for 20 min. b/c of reflux. Can't really avoid it without switching up the routine and since he sleeps pretty well I don't want to mess with it. He was getting up once a night for a couple of weeks after STTN most of the time. I was ready to call it a growth spurt, except if he ate in the MOTN, he often didn't want to finish his first morning bottle. That didn't seem like a growth spurt to me.
So, since we needed to transition him out of his Tucker Sling (for reflux) to sleeping flat and having the freedom to roll around, we just went ahead with a little Ferbering. More so he'd learn to sleep in various positions than anything else.
It took one hour of Ferbering and he's STTN since. I doubt it will be the last time he gets up in the MOTN, but it seems to have helped. The rocking to sleep was more of a problem for naps. I don't mind rocking him down, but once he's down I want him to stay down. We ended up Ferbering for yesterday's morning nap and after 45 minutes he zonked out for 2 hours.
I'm hoping some of this helps him sleep better at daycare.