Comments on: Does When You Sleep Train Help Determine Success?

By: Mrs. Scooter

Mrs. Scooter — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:01:35 +0000

i’d never heard of bed timing, this was really interesting to me

By: erwoo

erwoo — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:26:44 +0000

Nicholas was around 5.5 months and Skyler around the same too but I can’t remember exactly. He never needed night time sleep training just for naps. I don’t think Nicholas needed much night time sleep training as much as naps as well. Knock on wood, but we’ve been pretty lucky in terms of sleep. Skyler doesn’t nap long but he will nap. I’ll take anything over nothing! Thankfully, he’s not unusually cranky except for tonight. First time he was super cranky bc he didn’t nap well today. I guess not unexpected but unusual for him though.

By: mrsvivian

mrsvivian — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:17:47 +0000

we started sleep training the week she turned 4 months and, fortunately, it only took 2 days! she’s been sleeping through the night ever since (she’s 12 months now). i wonder if we had just made it in the “good” window!

By: Mrs. Bee

Mrs. Bee — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:11:23 +0000

@Crumbs: you’d be surprised how quickly they get back on track after they’ve been sleep trained once. you could try a mild form and see how it goes? olive barely cried — hopefully your lo will be the same!

@phdmommy: there are no books on nap training that i’ve come across. i had to just talk to real parents and put a plan together myself. i have several posts in the archives on how i did it. i’m working on a feature that compiles all the nap training posts in one place — that will be live soon!

By: Leialou

Leialou — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:04:53 +0000

That’s interesting that there are ideal times to sleep train.

By: tororojo

tororojo — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:11:58 +0000

I missed this earlier…I had no idea about these windows, thanks for sharing!

By: Mrs. Superhero

Mrs. Superhero — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:35:41 +0000

I just read that book and got a bit depressed because we are still a ways away from the next good window :(

By: Mermaid

Mermaid — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:25:41 +0000

At the advice of our pediatrician we sleep trained/night weened at 4 months and it took 2 nights for him to sleep through. He gave us signs though that led us to believe he was ready then. For another baby later may be more ideal.

By: skibobrown

skibobrown — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:52:39 +0000

We did some half-hearted sleep training between 7 and 7.5 months. DD slept really well for a while after that, but now at 8.5 months we’re back sliding a bit, and we’re been getting up once per night on average to replace her binky. Right after sleep training she would sleep through the entire night on her own.

By: Mrs. High Heels

Mrs. High Heels — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:33:55 +0000

I’ve never heard of these ideal sleep windows – such great info!

We sleep-trained Noelle at 6-weeks, and although we all immediately got better sleep and it worked, in retrospect, I wish we waited longer because she really was so little and it was hard. If we need to, I’ll probably sleep train our 2nd at the 2.5-4 month window, before the 4-month sleep regression hits.