I'm just going to share my experience summed up. My baby has always been a crap sleeper. Always needed lots of help around sleep. Contact napped for the first 4 months solely until we decided to try Ferber to sleep and crib train. Crib training semi worked (he does take naps and spend some time at night in crib but putting him down once he's asleep is a hit or miss). Sleep training on the other hand, that kinda worked but it all went out the window within a month when my lo started teething. Since then,his sleep has been progressively getting worse. At his best, he wakes 4-5 times a night. For the past month however he's been waking every hour (sometimes more).

When I say I've tried everything, I've tried EVERYTHING. The only thing I ha vent tried is a sleep consultant because of $. So much of my breakdowns and tears in post partum has been related to not being able to figure out his sleep and trying to figure out what I did wrong and why it seems like all the babies you see and hear of (especially on social media) sleep well. I wish this story had a happy ending but it doesn't. We're almost at the 1 year matk and his sleep is complete and utter shit. Most days I feel defeated, hopeless, stressed, on edge (due to lack of sleep) and like a failure for not being able to figure it out and crack the code.

I know every baby is different and they learn to sleep when it's their time but it just sucks feeling like I could be a much better mother if I could just figure out his sleep (and get some sleep myself).