@NielsHoven - Looks like people are posting deranged takes on “cry it

Looks like people are posting deranged takes on “cry it out” sleep training again FYI “sleeping through the night” is a teachable skill if you break it down into its component parts. All 4 of my kids learned to sleep through the night by ~3 months with minimal tears or drama Most kids won’t sleep through the night much earlier than that because their stomachs aren’t big enough to hold enough calories, so that’s a baseline gating factor. Their tummies need to be big enough to get through the night. But once you’re over that hump, there’s only two skills necessary for sleeping through the night, and they’re both teachable to a 3-month-old: 1) self-settling - the ability to fall asleep on their own. If you rock your baby to sleep in your arms and then put them in bed already asleep, they don’t develop this skill. Put them in bed just as they’re beginning to fade out. Or wake them up a little as you put them down, and let them re-settle to sleep in their own bed 2) connecting sleep cycles - if you pick your baby up every time they stir, they don’t get to build this skill. Instead, pat their back and try to guide them from one sleep cycle into their next one without them fully waking up While “cry it out” does work and I’m extremely skeptical that it creates any lasting trauma, it’s a bit like learning to swim by getting chucked into the deep end. It’s always better to break a goal down into specific skills that can be practiced individually, then gradually blended together for the desired result