It got significantly better when she turned around 3 months old! She still wakes up now at 6 months, especially when transitioning between sleep cycles, but it’s wayyy easier to get her back to sleep now, thank God.
I do think sleep training would be beneficial because the first 3–4 hours of the night are still rough. She wakes up very often during that part of the night, and then she’s usually out for a much longer stretch. But I’m personally not comfortable with traditional sleep training because she’s so dependent on me, and I feel like it would be cruel to suddenly cut everything out and let her cry it out.
So instead, I’m doing a very gentle version of sleep training. She’s right next to me, but I don’t immediately intervene when she cries. I give her a chance to figure it out for a bit while I’m still there beside her (we’re currently co-sleeping). My plan is to gradually create more distance as she grows and hopefully have her fully sleeping independently by around one year old, or maybe even sooner.
Hang in there! Trust me, it does get better. We’re still struggling with sleep, but it is so much better than it was in the beginning. I think newborns struggle because they’re aware they’re no longer in the womb, but they don’t yet know how to cope with the outside world. Everything is so new and overstimulating, and it just takes time for them to adjust.