r/sleeptrain 9h ago

Let's Chat When did your LO stop crying when you left the room?

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Hi all,

My LO (8 months) has done well with sleep training. Except she always cries when i transfer her to bed. I watch the time and she always stops between 1-3 minutes in and falls asleep not long after.

She is still waking to feed once or twice during the night. It is a lot when she screams on top of her lungs at 2am when i put her back to her bed.

And so I'm wondering if your kiddos did the same and when they stopped. Bonus points if they were a similar age!


r/sleeptrain 12h ago

6 - 12 months Back to 3 naps

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We moved our LO to 2 naps at 7.5 months while we were sleep training and it worked fine for a week or two. Since then she has had horrible split nights. We tried capping naps, extending naps, stretching wake windows, literally everything and every schedule i saw recommended online and by friends. She would be awake for 1 hour minimum every single wake up and it was horrible for all of us.
I moved my 9 month old back to 3 naps on a whim and she’s sleeping through the night again.
I genuinely just don’t think she could handle those longer wake windows and does better with her sleep more evenly distributed throughout the day :)

Hoping this might help someone with a similar baby! (Baby sleep makes no sense sometimes so trust your gut <3 )


r/sleeptrain 5h ago

6 - 12 months Overnight wakes

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8 month old, we aim for 3/3.5/4 but it depends on how long he naps for.

He’ll do 1.5 hrs in the morning if he’s out in his stroller (so that’s what I try to do every day) or driving. Otherwise his naps are ~40 minutes max. We‘ve moved to two naps because he was fighting his last nap like crazy and then it got so late that it was pushing bedtime to like 9pm — but he wakes up around 5am no matter what.

Obviously there’s already a couple of issues there, but the thing that’s killing me is overnight sleep. He goes down for bedtime like a dream. We do solids, bath, bottle, books and playtime for 30 mins and then put him down awake with a pacifier. He goes to sleep on his own and stays asleep for several hours.

But overnight he wakes up a ton. First wake between 11-midnight to eat, then he tends to wake up anowhere from every 30mins to a hour screaming - whether his pacifier is in or not - before waking up for good around 5.

I don’t understand what I’m supposed to do about this. I’m so tired that my brain actually can’t process what time it is overnight — whether he should need to eat or not. I have walked into walls multiple times. I often just find myself shoving a boob in his mouth because it’s the only thing that will calm him down. The past week I’ve just been sleeping on the floor in his room because I don’t trust myself to be safe walking down the hall to him. The idea that I’m supposed to do the sleep training check ins throughout the night just doesn’t seem physically possible? Is that my only option?

ETA - he freaks out if his dad goes in to check on him overnight — it always makes it 100% worse. So all the nights are up to me.


r/sleeptrain 11h ago

6 - 12 months Early morning wake-up lasting 1+ hour — what would you do?

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Hello! Fortunately, I have a great nighttime sleeper overall.

For months, my daughter (9.5 months) has consistently woken up around 4:30 a.m. Recently that has shifted closer to 5:30 a.m., which is an improvement, but it's still earlier than we'd like to start the day.

She has an age-appropriate bedtime, usually around 7:30–8:00 p.m. With summer activities, it's occasionally closer to 8:30 p.m., but that doesn't seem to affect the early wake-up. She's also in the 99th percentile for weight (24.5 lbs and 30 inches long), and her pediatrician previously told us she no longer needs overnight feeds.

My question is about what happens when she wakes up.

Historically, when she wakes around 5:30, it may take me 20–30 minutes to get into her room because she's often just quietly awake. Then she'll nurse for 10–20 minutes, and it can take another 15–30 minutes for her to fall back asleep. In total, she's awake for about an hour, but then she'll sleep until around 7:45–8:15 a.m., which works really well for our family.

The last two mornings, instead of going in, I've let her try to get back to sleep on her own. She eventually does, but she's awake in her crib for a little over an hour before falling back asleep.

Is that too long for her to be awake in the crib? Should I be going in and feeding her? If I continue letting her resettle independently (assuming she's content and not crying), is there a chance she'll eventually eliminate this wake-up altogether?

I'd love to hear from anyone who's experienced something similar.

EDIT TO ADD WAKE WINDOWS BELOW:

We are on a two-nap schedule. With wake windows as follows 3/3.5/3.75.


r/sleeptrain 14h ago

6 - 12 months 2 naps but they are short - early bedtime and early wake up

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My baby is 7 months old. He started sleeping poorly at night and refusing nap 3 so we moved to a 2 nap day.

We follow the 3/3/4 sceduale. It worked wonderfully at first as his naps were quite long (roughly 90 minutes each).

Then his naps shortened for some reason and following 3/3/4 brought his bedtime earlier and earlier each day.

For example, last night he went to bed at 6 20. Today, he was up at 5 20.

Today, he might nap an hour each nap which bring his bedtime too early again and now we can expect another unreasonably early wake up tomorrow.

What can I do to improve the waking time? At least bring it up till 6 am? Try to squeeze in a cat nap? That would bring bedtime really late and it hasn't worked for us before which is why we switched to 2 naps in the first place.

I have two older kids whose bedtime is late and these endlessly long days are killing me.


r/sleeptrain 14h ago

6 - 12 months 8 month old 4:30 am wake up

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Our 8 month old has always been pretty bad at sleeping in the early hours of the morning, but I’m starting to lose it! There’s a few things happening.
1. Hell wake up once through the night for a bottle, which is fine, but if it’s anytime after like 3am he has a haaaard time going back to sleep and we need to hold him or bring him into bed.
2. Sometimes if he wakes up earlier in the night he’ll go back down but then wake up around 4:30/5 and won’t go back to sleep, even with assistance.

We sleep trained him (CIO) around 5 months, his schedule is approx. 3/3.5/4.25 - however when he wakes up super early I’ll get him as close to 9am for his first nap as possible, so bedtime pretty much always falls between 7-7:30. I don’t let him nap for more than 2.5 hours in total during the day.

Advice? Solidarity? When did it end if you went through something similar???


r/sleeptrain 17h ago

4 - 6 months Desperate for sleep

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Should we start sleep training?

Our baby recently started sleeping through the night - usually around 8/9pm to 6am, feeding once, then going back to sleep until 8/9am. Her wake windows are usually around 1.5/2/2/2/2.5.

We’ve fed to sleep since newborn stage. If nursing doesn’t work, we rock her with a pacifier. She was sleeping in her crib all night except for one false start after bedtime (which she’s always had).

The bigger issue is naps - they’re all contact naps because she wakes immediately on transfer.

But ever since she hit 4 months, her nighttime sleep completely fell apart almost overnight. For the past 3 nights she’s been waking every hour or less. I’ve tried other soothing methods first, but nothing works besides nursing. The last 2 nights I ended up bedsharing because I’m so exhausted I physically can’t keep doing transfers all night just for her to wake up again 30 minutes later.

I feel like I’m trapped in a dark room all day for naps, and now I’m not even sleeping at night anymore. My mental health is honestly starting to struggle.

So I guess I’m asking:
Should we start sleep training now, or does this part of the 4 month regression usually improve a bit first before starting? I used to be completely against CIO, but after these last few nights it suddenly doesn’t seem as terrible as I once thought.


r/sleeptrain 22h ago

4 - 6 months Are we just rolling with less sleep during regressions?!

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My LO is 4.5 months and has all in all been a decent night sleeper since ~ 8 weeks. For awhile now, we put her down around 9PM (this is just what works for us and her!), she wakes around 5AM for a quick feed, then back to sleep until 7:45/8ish. She typically falls asleep during the feed, I put her back in her crib easy peasy…

Recently, not the case - she’ll wake up around 5AM and babble/roll around, suck her hands etc for 15 mins and then cries for food. I feed her, but she’s WIDE AWAKE. I’m talking eyes glowing, smiling at me while eating, reaching up playing with (aka scratching) my face. And then she’s just uninterested in going back down - today I walked/rocked/shushed/patted her in my arms for 45 mins for her to go back to sleep, and she only slept for another 40 mins. With going to sleep at 9pm, that’s only 8.5 hr of total sleep when she typically averages 10.5hr - 11hr.

During these regressions, are we just rolling with them getting less sleep?? If she’s supposed to sleep ~14 hours a day no way I can have this girl nap 5hrs to make up that time, I can barely get her to do 30 min naps nowadays! I used to be able to rescue naps easily but same thing as nighttime now, I go in after 30 mins, pick her up and it takes ~20 mins to get her to fall back asleep when it used to take 5 mins.

Wake windows are usually 1.75/2/2/2/2.5 with 4 naps, ~3.5hr of naps total.

Any advice?? Anything I can be doing differently?! I’m so lost!


r/sleeptrain 1h ago

2+ years old Never sleep trained before! But my 2.5yo is killing me, please help!

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I haven't needed to sleep train my daughter because I was happy to get up overnight and she hadn't been to bad to get to sleep, until now.

In the last year or so we have culled Breastfeeding, bottles and pacifiers, so no longer have any crutches.

She has been in her single bed since just before 1 because she hated a cot.

She wakes up around 6am each morning, has a 1-2hr nap around 1130am, then her bedtime routine starts around 630pm after dinner.

Bedtime routine is bath time, pajamas, a snack if she needs one, teeth, bit of chatting, stories and bed.

Bedtime is usually 745ish.

In the last 2 months she has been incredibly abusive towards me, hitting, biting, pinching etc. Her stalling is excessive, gets distracted by blankets, my face, pillows, the curtain string, water, wanting to get up, anything!!

Most nights i end up swaddling her and rocking her to sleep because I need her to stop hitting me. During this she screams at me telling me to get away.

I sometimes then try to leave the room to have a break from the abuse. She gets up immediately and tries to leave the room, if I hold the door shut she screams and/or unpacks everything in her room.

Doesn't seem to make any difference if she has had a busy day, active day, skipped her nap, gone to bed early/late, snacks, yoto before bed.

Once asleep, she usually sleeps throught the night once she has gone to sleep which I am very grateful for.

About my toddler: she is pure chaos, a bit scrawny but a pocket rocket for sure, she is sweet natured but lacks impulse control, she is a great problem solver and generally very happy. I sometimes wonder if she has a degree of ADHD or if it's just toddlerhood.

Any advice is greatly appreciated 🩷


r/sleeptrain 3h ago

Success Story 13 month old 2 nap day low sleep needs

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I know this schedule wouldn't work for a lot of people and most here would recommend a 1 nap day, but this schedule has saved my sanity this week so I thought I'd document it in case anyone else encountering issues wanted to try it.

Babe is what I would consider low sleep needs averaging 10 to 11 hours sleep in 24 hours (only does 11 hours when I nail the schedule perfectly).

She has been like this since her first sleep regression at 3.5 months and following all the standard advice and wake windows just led us down a road of terrible sleep for everyone involved.

After a rocky few weeks of illness and teething I was completely thrown off schedule wise and sleep had gone to shit with multiple nights of being kept up to 4am.

I tried going to 1 nap, but babe was getting overtired and waking hourly at night. I was getting no sleep as she did her best sleep between 8:30 and 11pm and then was a mess for the rest of the night.

I LOVE a late bedtime as it means I go to bed the same time as baby and this is what gets me the most sleep. I don't get any time for myself but sleep trumps everything else.

Wake windows are 3.75/4.25/5.

Naps are 1 hour (ish) and 40 mins (ish).

7am wake up, 10pm asleep and 1 overnight wake quick to resettle. I have not night weaned yet as I have not yet garnered the energy to..

I suspect we will be moving to a 1 nap schedule once she can handle 6 and 7 hour wake windows...


r/sleeptrain 3h ago

6 - 12 months Sleep regression seems never ending… what to do?

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Our second baby is 9 months old next week. She started sleeping through the night (7 pm to 7 am) at 4 months old. At 6 months, she started sleeping in her room in her crib. No disruptions, still 12 hours of great sleep. She even would wake up in the morning and just be happy to chill for a while.

However, at the end of April, she started waking up twice a night. Once at 1ish am and once at 4ish am, before waking up at 7 am for the day. The whole night wake up is very quick- diaper change, bottle, she immediately falls back asleep and transfers to her crib no problem. Start to finish it’s 10 minutes. When this started, she was close to crawling (now crawling and standing) *and* was teething, so I figured this was your standard regression. Our first never had any regressions (unicorn sleeper) so this was all new to us, but we figured it would pass in a few weeks. However, it’s now been almost 7 weeks of this and we don’t know what to do.

We tried capping her naps, and it left her absolutely feral and cranky all day, and she still woke up twice at night. We always give her 10 minutes at night to try and settle, but she does not self soothe back to sleep. We tried going in and soothing her without picking her up, but that just makes her hysterical, and we end up having to get her anyways. So we’ve just been giving a bottle because at least it’s fast and she’s obviously hungry. But maybe that’s feeding into the problem? We just don’t know where to go from here. Ride it out? Try something new? I have no idea.

Current nap schedule is up at 7 am, nap at 10 am, nap at 2 pm, bedtime at 8 pm. So 3/2.5/4. The second wake window is so short, but she is always totally ready for a nap at 2 and she falls asleep instantly. I thought about pushing her nap to 3 pm, but I’m worried that will make her sleep worse because she’s napping so late in the day. However I am open to any suggestions for how to improve our schedule!

Anyone have advice on what needs to be changed to hopefully get her sleeping through the night again?


r/sleeptrain 4h ago

6 - 12 months Too much awake time - 3 to 2 nap transition - 7.5 month old

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Struggling with too much awake time, around 11-12hrs which I think is causing early morning wakes 5-530am.

My son is 7.5 months corrected and can handle 3 hour wake windows, but we often get early morning wakes (around 5:00 to 5:45am) and short naps (30 to 40 mins).

Because of the early start and short naps, I end up needing a third nap or bedtime would be well before 530pm. It feels like we're stuck between schedules.

How to avoid too much awake time? For example yesterday was 3/3.5/2.5/ then Bridge nap and wouldn't go down before 2.5hrs at 730pm.

Would love to hear others' experiences.


r/sleeptrain 6h ago

4 - 6 months How does it work if they don’t suck their thumb?

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Second time parent to a two month old. We are planning to sleep train around 5 months.

We did a modified Ferber at 5 months with our first and it was really great - but they stuck their thumb to self-soothe. So far our second is still finding their hands, and uses a soother sometimes. If they don’t end up sucking their thumb too, how does sleep training work successfully? I’d rather not spend my life replacing their soother!


r/sleeptrain 7h ago

4 - 6 months HELP - Sleep Schedule

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Hello,

I need help fixing my 22-week-old baby's sleep schedule so he sleeps better at night.

For the past 3 days, he has been waking up around 7:30 AM. His first nap usually starts around 9:30 AM. Recently, I extended his wake windows to 3 hours because he was fighting naps and bedtime. Since doing that, he falls asleep much more easily with little to no resistance. Last week, he used to wake up 4 times at night every 2 hours. but now only three times with noticeably longer stretches

The issue is that his naps are now about 1 or 1.5 hours each. By 5:00 PM or 6:00 PM, I'm unsure whether I should start his bedtime routine or give him a fourth nap. If I give him a short 20-minute fourth nap, it pushes bedtime to around 9:00 PM.

Also, I know babies shouldn't sleep later than 8:00 PM, but when he does, he sleeps a first longer stretch 4 hours....

I'm conflicted because he seems to tolerate 3-hour wake windows well now, but I'm not sure what the best approach is.

Should I:

  1. Keep the 3-hour wake windows and accept a later bedtime?
  2. Wake him earlier in the morning and cap his naps so he can maintain 3-hour wake windows but still have a bedtime closer to 7:00 PM?
  3. Follow a different schedule altogether?

What would you recommend for a 22-week-old who is handling 3-hour wake windows well and taking two 1.5-hour naps?


r/sleeptrain 9h ago

6 - 12 months HELP...5AM EMW and she won't even let me sit

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We just retrained our 11 month old and she sleeps from 8pm to 4:50AM. But these early mornings wake ups are killing me. She will dose off if I'm holdong and patting her, but immediately screams awake if I sit my butt down, even if I don't change the angle I'm holding her. She also cried with her eyes closed if I keep trying to sit down. I've tried to let her cry it out but the sleep pressure is so low that it only did the opposite. I'll normally give up at 6AM and start the day.

Her first nap is no earlier than 9:45. Total daytime nap 2-2.5 hours. WW is 4/3.5/3.75 (first one so long because of the EMW). The room is dark and white noise plays all night long. She's not too hot or cold. I'm awake at 4:45 this morning and laid still in my bed. At 4:53 she woke up like a clock and there was no noise or whatsoever that woke her up.

Please help...it's so early and exhausting to start every day this way


r/sleeptrain 10h ago

4 - 6 months Bad nights with no discernable pattern after sleep training???

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What is going on with our baby's sleep!? We have been trying to sleep train our 6 month old baby (extinction method) for almost 2 months. Some nights she does great—fusses for a few minutes at bedtime and has no problem sleeping. But about twice a week, she will have a bad night, involving prolonged crying at bedtime, and/or prolonged crying when I put her back in the crib after middle of the night nursings.

The thing that's confusing is that there's virtually no difference between our schedule and bedtime routine on the good nights and the bad nights. And we always check the obvious: Her diaper hasn’t leaked, she doesn't have a fever, she shouldn't be hungry, and she’s not teething. 

Every bad night, we try to come up with some kind of explanation, no matter how tenuous: Maybe it’s because she woke up from a nap 2 minutes early? Maybe a car honked at an inopportune moment? Maybe she has a tummy ache?? It's got to be something, right??

But if she’s truly sleep trained, shouldn’t she be able to roll with those types of very minor variations? Her sleep improved with sleep training but two bad nights a week seems like a lot! Is this normal? Do we just have to give it more time?

We are also confused about how to approach the bad nights. If she has a bad night and cries for more than 30 minutes at bedtime, we have started to go in around the 30 minute mark to soothe her and do a quick reset. This normally works in the moment, but in the long run, we worry that we may be undoing all of our hard work. But then, confusingly, most other nights she falls right asleep with no issue! Are we doing the right thing by resetting her once or twice a week at bedtime?

Please help us get over this hump!


r/sleeptrain 12h ago

6 - 12 months No idea what to do 😓

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My 7.5 month old has been relentlessly waking every hour overnight, and I’m at a loss as to why or what I might be doing wrong. Some nights are better than others, and she’ll occasionally give me a 3-hour stretch, but over the last few days things have really taken a turn for the worse.

She wakes around 7am and follows 3 / 3.5 / 4 wake windows. I cap her total daytime sleep at 2.5 hours, and she goes to sleep independently from awake at bedtime.

The biggest struggle is the early morning wakes. If she’s been crying for more than 20 minutes, the only thing that seems to settle her is nursing.

I’m just feeling really stuck and unsure what I’m missing. If anyone has any pointers, suggestions, or similar experiences, I’d really appreciate hearing them. 😭 Could this simply come down to temperament? She is an intense screamer and does not take well to trying to calm down.


r/sleeptrain 12h ago

9 - 16 weeks To Magic Merlin or Not…

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Our LO is 3.5 months. We moved her to a sleep sack around 2 months because the girl loves her hands.

She’s a great night time sleeper (usually wakes around the 8 hour mark for her paci then she sleeps again until it’s time to wake up). Sometimes getting her down at night takes 1 or 2 paci re-inserts but it’s usually pretty easy.
Naps are the same, easy to get down, but the issue is that some naps the last 3-4 weeks have been short - waking before 30 minutes and then it’s the paci game to try to extend and I know she isn’t getting restorative sleep.

My question is - would this be a good case to try the Merlin suit? I’m afraid it’s a backslide since she’s been in a sleep sack for so long and doing mostly ok. If we did use it my thought was to use it for naps only, but not sure if that will confuse her and then just be an issue moving her back to the sleep sack again later.

I’m also not sure if the 4 month regression is going to come for us and maybe at that point it would make more sense to use it? She also starts daycare in a month and I’m nervous about her ability to nap there.

Schedule is roughly: 1/1.5/1.5/1.5/2

She’s definitely always been a high sleep needs baby and can’t tolerate longer wake windows.

Thanks!


r/sleeptrain 12h ago

6 - 12 months Sleep regression? Separation anxiety? Teething? At a loss with my almost 11 month olds sleep

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About a month ago we started to experience some sleep issues at bedtime with my previously great sleeper. He is roughly 10.5, almost 11 months and not sleep trained. Before, I’d put him down fully asleep (nurse to sleep), and he’d sleep through the night or have one wake. I could even sometimes put him down awake and he’d fall asleep on his own. He takes his naps independently in his crib usually fine during the day. However within the last month, naps have stayed okay, but he will wake a couple hours after I put him down just screaming and crying, and it will take rocking and usually at least an hour or two and a couple attempts to get him back down for good. He had a rough couple weeks, then a really good week, and right back to it last night. It took 2 attempts to get him back to sleep, and even 30 mins after that transfer, he woke crying but fell back asleep within a couple mins (I try to give him 5 mins when he starts to cry bc he can calm himself down, unless he’s clearly escalating). Editing to add: after a few failed transfers or rocking attempts, he usually does fall asleep for a stretch. Sometimes it’s 5-6 hours until he wakes crying again, sometimes it’s around 7-8 and he wakes just fine and dandy in the morning.

I want to be able to put him down awake so the first wake up in between sleep cycles isn’t so jarring for him, but I worry it’s not a good time to start sleep training. He seems to have bad separation anxiety, and I’ve no clue if he’s teething. He has no teeth yet, so idk what to look for. I guess I’m here to ask, when did you know it was a good time to start? Is it bad to start during a regression?

Our day looks like this: 3/3.5/3.5-3.75 max
DWT of 6:30-6:45 unless he has a rough night then we let him sleep til 7:30ish
Bedtime routine: bath, book, nurse to sleep

I’m also planning to wean around 12 months so that’s why I hope to be able to put him down awake. We did CIO actually at the beginning of this regression, and I hated it so much. It worked. But I went back to nursing to sleep bc I had a lot of regret around it. I’d prefer to not do it again. But the constant screaming wake ups and rocking him to sleep are getting really tiring and it’s all really puzzling too, especially since he can fall asleep on his own for naps! So I just don’t know what’s happening. I’d appreciate any advice. TIA!


r/sleeptrain 13h ago

1-2 years old Nap weaning has made toddler start to refuse naps, advice on approach?

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So my toddler is 22 months old. We have nightweaned at 20 months, so until a week ago he only breastfed at bedtime, in the early morning and for his nap.

He used to nap on top of me or cuddled to my side with the nipple in his mouth for the entire nap. My goal now is to get him to nap independently, so I used the same approach I used for night weaning.

I make the room dark, get in bed, him on top, we kiss before he latches and I breastfeed for around 10 min (2 of his lullaby) then I unlatch.

The problem is that after I unlatch he doesn't go to sleep, even if he is almost asleep while nursing. As soon as I unlatch, he wiggles around in the bed, says all the words he knows, even "no" and "done", sometimes tries to get off the bed. At night I used to cuddle with him when I weaned but he is having none of that at nap. After half an hour to an hour of doing his thing he eventually drifts off to sleep.

I have tried putting him to bed when he said he wants to nap at his usual time at first, which was a little over 3h after waking up, but he nursed and wouldn't sleep, left the room and everything.

I tried the recommended 5h wake window and it took him an hour to fall asleep and a meltdown.

I tried 4h wake windows and he rolls around for half an hour at least.

I am hoping he is protesting and this is just a phase but am I wrong? Is this normal nap behavior or am I doing something wrong?


r/sleeptrain 13h ago

4 - 6 months 5 month old, moving away from shush pat? Is it possible without Ferber?!

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For context I have a 21 week old EBF baby. Bed sharing at night and contact napper from the beginning! I’ve loved bed sharing but his sleep is getting worse and he now only settles when lay across me and latched on an all times!!!

The last 3 weeks we have successfully got baby down for naps on their own in the crib using shush and pat. I rock him and sing until he’s drowsy and then pop him down and it takes about 5 minutes to successfully pat him to sleep, I don’t sneak out the room but hes 100% asleep when I leave. Hes waking mostly after 1 sleep cycle at the 30 minute mark but sometimes we get longer…. best has been 1.5 hours.

When he wakes at bedtime I usually just get him up and have him contact nap with me until it’s time for bed.

I’m slightly reluctant to start Ferber if it’s too early and I also have a 4 year old I’m worried we will wake when sleep training. We sleep trained my 4 year old when they were about 4.5 months but they sucked their thumb so had some form of comfort LO currently only sucks his hands but not reliably!

I guess my question is has anyone’s little ones successfully started linking sleep cycles whilst shush patting and avoided Ferber or is it inevitable that I will have to start and if so is 5 months too early to begin? Will move him into his own room when we begin sleep training formally!


r/sleeptrain 13h ago

1-2 years old Help me know if I’m going in the right direction-

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14 month old, wakes at 5-6 am everyday. Usually is down for nap at 830-9 am and will sleep about 2-21/2 hours. That’s her only nap most days due to her absolutely fighting us on the second. Then she’s so wore out by 630 pm she not only fights when we try to rock, but also she usually will sleep through the night. I am SO over the fighting. Ferber didn’t work for us the multiple times we’ve tried it. I won’t cry it out fully. Yesterday we had a break through. I went to rock her for her nap in the am and she threw her passi across the room. I immediately put her down in her bed, gave her her passi, and walked out of the room. She stood up screamed and cried but would self settle. And then she would scream and cry again and repeat. After about 8 minutes of this, I went in, checked on her. Her passi was on the floor. So I gave it back, picked her up, gave her a smooch and laid her back down (she was standing) and covered her up. This time she only sat back up and cried. Eventually (5-8 minutes) she LAYS DOWN and just goes to sleep? And then same thing for night time, only I completely skipped the rocking part and just tucked her in, and only had to do one check in. Slept through the night. Is this the path to success? Am I moving in the right direction?


r/sleeptrain 13h ago

1-2 years old Day 5 of false starts

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17 month old sleep trained since about 4-6 months.

Current schedule that is working well (he’s happy and not fussy and goes down easily) except nightly false starts and some split nights: 5.5/6

6:30am DWT

12-2 nap

8pm bed

He goes down easily and falls asleep immediately for nap and bed. Wakes on his own from nap. For the past 5 nights however, he wakes after 1 sleep cycle around 8:40pm and cries. He puts himself back to sleep, so it’s not the end of the world, but it seems to me something is off? Additionally he’s had a split night twice in this time period.

Should I cap nap? He’s never given us more than 10.5 overnight. He’ll be starting daycare in a month or so and their nap schedule is 12-2, so I’d like to stay close to that and adjust around it.


r/sleeptrain 16h ago

4 - 6 months Split night cycle

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I have a 5 month old who like clockwork wakes up at 2am every morning with no variation. We practice all the basics (food, fresh diaper, dark cool room, white noise machine, non-stimulating time before bed) with a schedule starting 6:30am and ending between 7 and 8pm. Im normally at work during the day so its hard for me to nail down but the day time schedule is generally suppose to go like 2/1.5 2/1.5 2/1.5 2/1.5 2/1.5. It is worth noting that the last two nap cycles are hit or miss as sometimes LO only sleeps for 30 minutes at best (his choice) unless its a contact nap. Is there any thing else I can do to break this cycle?


r/sleeptrain 18h ago

4 - 6 months Only 9 hrs of awake time but baby has finished all her naps...what do I do?

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Hi all,

Baby is 5 months and napping and total of 2h 45m a day over three naps. She was getting sleepy and fussy earlier in the day so now her awake time will only amount to 9hrs if I give her 3hrs for last wake window. She usually only can do 2.75hrs for her last ww, but 10 hrs awake seems to work well with her.

What do I do? Do I add a 10min bridge nap?

Thanks!​