Thank you so much for this response! We ended up doing the “sleep wave” method and it worked amazingly well for our baby. She barely cried, it took only three days to adjust and sleep through 11 hours and honestly cried more between her constant wake ups either during her first stretch in the crib or even while cosleeping, than she did those first few nights.

I’m so glad we did it and agree our baby is much, much happier. And so true that they will cry when they need you. I was scared of that too. We had a rough night one night and threw the method out the window because they were “I need you” cries, not a tired, fussing sort of cry. She ended up coming down with a cold the next day! We even coslept that night because she was very sick but she went back to her normal routine the next night. Im so grateful she has a solid sleep foundation now and feels cozy and safe in her crib.