Is sleep training app worth it?

[gigitv]

Hi mamas

My baby is 6 months old and she can’t fall asleep by herself yet. I was thinking to subscribe to this Huckleberry app.

Have any of you just let it happen to your baby naturally? If so at what months/ year did they learn to fall asleep unassisted?

Or did you buy any sleep traninh program and it worked?

Thank you for the help! 😍

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My LG has always been good at sleeping and going to bed etc. She would go off on her own with her dummy however when we took that away it was a nightmare and when she stopped her bedtime bottle she started being a nightmare again going to bed. She’s 3 in Feb and she’s only just started going off by herself.

I think it depends on different stages of their life as they go through leaps/growth spurts where things get more tricky for a period. Also I read that they can feel that you are leaving them as they don’t understand so if you are happy helping them go to sleep I don’t see the problem but might just be me. I don’t think I would worry at 6 months either xx

[QT314]

Hi,Sleeping is not a teachable skill but a biological function. You cannot teach it. What 'sleep training' teaches babies is to stop asking for their parents at night because they're not coming. If you decide to sleep train I think it's important you know that bc we are made to believe that we have to teach our children to sleep and that's absolutely untrue and impossible.

If you want to read about baby's sleep and things that can help with no sleep training there's a book by Sarah Ockwell-Smith called gentle sleep that is very informative.

4 months are so hard, my daughter had a pretty hardcore sleep 'regression' and it was really hard. Sending you lots of virtual hugs x

[Cedrada]

I didn't buy it, but the sleep windows in Huckleberry are a lifesaver. Sleep training in my opinion is fairly cruel.

[MissEd]

My lo is 2 in January and doesn't go off by his self. I stay next time him in his room until he falls asleep, I don't really see the problem with it, max it takes 30 minutes and he will go to sleep on his own when he is ready.

It's personal choice though, lots of people use sleep training and it works really well x

[copperkettle8]

The gentle sleep book is great at helping you to understand when these different things will happen naturally and why (different changed in their brain, understanding of the world, hormones, circadian rhythms etc). I highly recommend it for aiding understanding of it all, it's helped me loads!

[Natasha213]

Hay gigiyv

I didn't necessarily sleep train my son but I stopped the rocking for the most part when he was 13months old. I started by just holding him so he knew I was there and then putting him down and tapping his bum, after a week or so I started just putting him down and sitting by the cot which can be up to 50minutes. I then went from there to putting him awake and leaving the room saying the same phrase, read same story etc and if he would cry which he rarely did I would go back in repeat the phrase and go back out. It took a few weeks but I was led by him more than anything. Obviously if he is ill, teething etc then he will get rocked to sleep at times but for the most part he settled himself. However, like others said I think it was when he was ready rather than what I did. He does wake every night around 3am but he settles himself and I read that some babies cry in they're sleep so don't rush in straight away give it a minute. My son was still having a night feed until 12months. However, my friend sleep trained from 6mths stopped feeds etc and her son sleeps 7-7. I couldn't do that but it's a personal choice x

[gigitv]

Thank you for all the replies. I never want to leave my baby cry alone for hours. I’m glad i’m not the only one. I think i will keep helping her and slowly decrease it until she’s ready like Natasha. I feel that she still neeeds a lot of comfort from me.