What Age to Start Sleep Training??

No matter what you read or advice people give you the reality is some babies sleep well and others don't. My son did not sleep through the night until he was a year old. We tried everything. He is now 21/2 and he sleeps great. My daughter slept at 3-4 mos. We did not do anything different, they are just different kids with different personalities. We also did not let either one of them cry. It just seems mean to let a little baby cry. They don't understand what you want from them.

As soon as you come home from the hospital!

Seriously, it is never too early to get your little one in a bedtime routine. It took us about 6 weeks to get our footing as parents, but we immediately swaddled our little one and put him in his own place to sleep. We moved him from the pack and play in our room to his crib at 7 weeks because he was sleeping well enough that I was concerned we would wake him because of my husband's "loud" sleeping.
We've always had a routine. That routine has changed significantly as he's gotten older, but it always has revolved around bedtime, clean pj's, rocking, and a story. Until he was weaned from the bottle at 13 months, he got a bottle every night before bed. Then he graduated to a sippy cup with milk and a Nutri-grain bar and now he doesn't want anything. We also added in brushing his teeth about 3 months ago and allowing him to choose his story (from 3 options).
He has slept through the night since 7 weeks, exculding sickness and teething. We have done CIO, but it's never more than one or two nights before he gets back in the routine.

Well it depends on what you mean by sleep training. Like do you mean having your baby fall asleep on his/her own? Or you don't mind nursing, rocking or giving a bottle before bed but then what baby to sleep all night? Or both? Cause depending on what you want there are different answers. Like the books I have read said babies really can't be sleep trained until they are at least 4 months and they do better around 6 months. This goes for teaching your baby how to fall asleep on his/her own and sleeping all night. The thing is some babies are just better sleepers by nature so yeah your always gonna hear about someones baby who started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks and you will also hear about the mom with the baby that didn't sleep through the night until they were 12 months. For me with my girls I had different experiences with both. My first daughter went through phases. I would nurse her to sleep but by 8 weeks she was sleeping 7 hours straight. That lasted for a few months then she started waking 1 to 2 times a night until she was completely weaned at 11 months but by 6 months I could lay her down awake and she would fall asleep on her own with no crying but when I completely weaned her she was awful and it took weeks. With my second daughter she pretty much nursed round the clock (every 2 to 3 hours) until i weaned her at 13 months but when i did wean her and did sleep training she never even cried...just fell asleep no problem in her crib. Again different babies will do and react differently. So if your baby is waking during the night and eats then he/she is still hungry and needs to eat so you shouldn't deny them that. But if your baby is over 6 months and wakes but isn't hungry and just wants to be held or rocked them go ahead and try sleep training.

started my DD at 3 weeks. I used Babywise. She was sleeping 10-12 hours by 4 1/2 months.

I followed the weisbluth method when our son was 51/2 months. He would go down around 6:30 and I would nurse him around 2. He would be up for the day at about 6:45. At about 9 months, I stopped the 2am nursing session and he was sleeping 6:30-7. You can send me a message if you want more info. We swear by this book and I did not let my son cry for more than 20 minutes.

I don't think there's a specific age that works for every child. Whether you know it or not, you probably have a sense of whether it's a good time for you and your child to start this process. Both you and your child need to be ready or it won't work. With my 3 kids, each of them showed some signs of readiness, and there was also the factor of when I NEEDED them to sleep on their own. You'll know when it's time!

Good luck!

If your baby never learns bad habits, there is no need to sleep train. I kept my boys in my room for the first month when they actually needed to eat at night. My doctor said after the first couple of weeks they no longer needed to eat at night, and that most older babies do so because they have been trained to do so. At about a month I started putting my boys to bed awake at the same time each night. If they fussed I would wait 5 minutes to give them a chance to self sooth. If they did not I would go in and comfort without food or picking them up (they needed to learn it was time to be in bed). I would sing softly and rub their tummies. Once calm I would leave, and if they started to fuss I would wait another 5 minutes and repeat. I never had to go in more than once. At night if they woke I would wait 5 minutes before going in to see if they were actually hungry, or just wakeful. 95% of the time they self soothed in under 5 and were back to sleep. Doing this all of my kids were sleeping through the night by 2 months, and are still great sleepers to this day.

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Good habits from the beginning but about 5-6 months they can learn to sleep through the night. We used modified cry it out for both kids. If I did it again, I wouldn't have them in my bedroom for the first 6 weeks since I seem to wake at every peep. How old is your child?