To Sleep Train or Not to Sleep Train

From birth to about 2.5 months, Molly was the type of baby who took hours to put to bed. We would have to walk/rock/bounce her to sleep and then wait until that magical time when she was in a deep enough sleep to transfer her into the crib. Most of the time you would think she was deep asleep to find that when you try to put her in the crib, she would wake up! This went on and on, exhausting both me and my husband. Nighttime feedings were the same process.

Around 2.5 months, after crying in our pediatrician's office, the pediatrician recommended sleep training Molly. Her suggestion was letting her cry in 10 minute increments. I did tons of research on sleep training to see what the best method would be for Molly. We finally decided on Dr. Ferber's sleep method. 

This worked WONDERS for us! We can now put Molly down for bed wide awake and she'll fall asleep on her own...no fussing or crying. This is also the same for nighttime feedings, we're only up maybe 15-20 minutes for a quick feed and she goes right back down.

Now it's come time to figure out if we should sleep train her for nighttime feedings. She's 5 months old and still wakes up once, sometimes twice, a night to feed. The feeding is always very quick, but she wakes up at a different time every night. I have friends who have recommended letting her cry it out or to do Dr. Ferber's method, but all I think about is how quick I can just hook her up to the boob and put her back to sleep!

So this is something we are still trying to figure out! There is always something new for us to think about as moms...what & when is best for our child!? More to come on Molly's sleep training =)...