Night One of Sleep Training - March 2023 Babies | Forums | What to Expect (2024)

I started it at 9 months and my LO got sick during so we stopped…when we resumed there was a lot of crying the first week and I hated it but just stayed consistent. We were bed sharing before and I was at a breaking point with our work schedules and multiple wake ups at night. It really worked well for us and I think all of our quality of sleep has improved significantly. My LO had a surgery done right after turning one and that disrupted his sleep a bit, so we co-slept again for a few days. We got right back on track very easily though. Once they have the bedtime routine down it is so worth it! Now he actually tells me when he’s ready for bedtime. The crying sucks, but stay consistent!! I wrote on the tracking sheet every night and saw a lot of improvement by the end of the first week. I actually noticed that some times the pop ins would make it worse for him so I started to do them less and really listened to if he was tired crying or distress crying… tired cry means I could wait a little longer to go in and comfort and the distress or hard crying I definitely went in to comfort. I didn’t follow her plan to a T because I couldn’t handle too much crying, and I still picked him up to rock him sometimes, but it still worked for us.

It gets better, hang in there!!

Just wanted to say we used TCB around 6 months and it was life changing!! Stick with it and it will be sooo worth it. My best advice is to remember that sleep training is not linear. In those first 2 weeks you can have a couple really good nights then a random bad night but don’t change anything!

For reference, my son does a 3 hr nap from 11:30-2:30 and then sleeps 7pm-6:45am every day without any interventions.

You got this!!