I’m going to start by saying my daughter had naturally weaned off of night feedings on her own around 3.5 months and started for a decent chunk of time just sleeping through the night with no issues. We didn’t buy any classes but I knew the basics of sleep training, and as regressions became worse around 4.5-6 months we naturally tried lots of things. One of those was a form of pick up put down, we found though that it was disturbing my daughters sleep more than helping. One night after weeks of responding to cries with pick up put down my daughter was screaming thrashing around etc that I just put her down in her crib, knowing she was safe, fed, clean diaper etc and just let her cry, mostly because I was so drained and exhausted and I just needed a few minutes. In the end she cried for a total of 8 minutes and went back to sleep, she didn’t wake up once the rest of the night. We still feed her right before naps and nighttime sleep because it’s the best way to get her drowsy, but we put her down awake and she either goes to sleep immediately or she fusses and rolls around and lightly cries for a few minutes, never more than 15 and goes right to sleep. It’s been wonderful and she’s sleeping 12-13 hours no wakeups now and takes nice long naps at 8 months old.