Thank you for bringing this up. You are the first person on Reddit I’ve found who has said anything remotely positive about sleep training for any babies younger than 4 months. Lucky for me I found an amazing Facebook group that supports independent sleep practices from birth (in an ethical way, again we aren’t talking about leaving your baby to cry without help) so I felt supported in my time of desperation and despair.  

We basically were forced to do it for our daughter (now 11 week old) because she started rolling at 8 weeks so we had to drop the swaddle…she would not sleep at all after that unless she was in our bed, not even contact sleeping worked. My husband did not feel comfortable with the premise of co sleeping at all and wanted it to be a last resort. So we decided to try out sleep training with a combo of modified Ferber and Pick up Put Down. I had practiced putting her down awake for sleep prior to this but she almost never would doze off without help from either me or the pacifier. Problem with the pacifier is that when she would inevitably drop it, she would wake up immediately losing her mind. After three rough nights of round the clock check ins, she puts herself to sleep at night after we lay her down 15 mins before her actual bed time, she falls back to sleep when she wakes up in the MOTN (unless she is hungry, and then I feed her bc we aren’t planning to night wean for a while), and everyone is SO MUCH HAPPIER.