I think it was around 7 months when we did our 'sleep training' (which, fwiw, does not equal 'cry it out').
Our sleep training consisted of removing the soother from the nightime routine, adding a 'lovey' (stuffed animal in our case), and eliminating the middle-of-the-night feeding. The first night we just didn't give him his soother, and when he woke up we didn't give him a bottle (just went in and patted/shushed him until he went back to sleep). I was amazed at how quickly he went back to sleep, and it's been like that ever since.
He sleeps from 7:00 p.m. to anytime between 6:00-7:00 a.m. now (although we don't get him up until 6:45....if he wakes up before 6:45, he babbles to himself and plays with a crib toy that makes music, has buttons for him to push etc).
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Date: 2009-05-12 02:01 pm (UTC)Our sleep training consisted of removing the soother from the nightime routine, adding a 'lovey' (stuffed animal in our case), and eliminating the middle-of-the-night feeding. The first night we just didn't give him his soother, and when he woke up we didn't give him a bottle (just went in and patted/shushed him until he went back to sleep). I was amazed at how quickly he went back to sleep, and it's been like that ever since.
He sleeps from 7:00 p.m. to anytime between 6:00-7:00 a.m. now (although we don't get him up until 6:45....if he wakes up before 6:45, he babbles to himself and plays with a crib toy that makes music, has buttons for him to push etc).