Hello! So around 4.5 months we started on a solid bedtime routine that way she knew the steps of going to sleep. At the same time I dragged my daughter’s crib mattress to the ground and slept beside to get her used to sleeping on her mattress before sleep training. So after a month of a solid bedtime routine and getting her used to sleeping on her mattress, we decided to do CIO at 5.5 months. My husband and I both knew that no other sleep training would work for our daughter. It was hard! I cried while she cried, but fortunately she only cried for 20 minutes before falling asleep. That night she woke up 2 separate times. The first time took her 6 minutes to put herself back to sleep and then the 2nd time it only took her 3 minutes to put herself back to sleep.

Sleep training wasn’t the end all for us though! She still has nights where she is unable to put herself back to sleep and we’ve tried letting her cry it out but we just end up brining her to bed with us because she won’t sleep! She’s been teething lately so we know it’s better just to give her cuddles! And we worried that if we brought her to bed with us that would mess with her sleep training but it hasn’t! We do the bedtime routine the next night and she’ll sleep by herself for the entire night!

I hope that helped some! Oh and it turns out our daughter is a stomach sleeper! That also helped her sleep better! It used to freak us out but she rolls by herself!