I think we have finally made it!!

Brenna,

I am not the model for sleep training by any means. We didn’t sleep train until 15 months old. I used to rock him to sleep everynight and gradually I stopped rocking him in the middle of the night when he would wake up. I would then just rub his back and sing to him until he fell back asleep. Then one night when we were rocking to “sleep” he decided to cover my head with his blanket and laugh at me. i was a bit fed up from other events that day so I just plopped him down in his crib and walked out. To my surprise he didn’t cry so I just left him. It took him about 90 mins to fall asleep that night, but we only had 2 nights where he cried any, they were bad but we just sat in his room and sang to him and then he fell asleep. After about 2wks of going to sleep on his own at night then I did naps and luckily now he asks to go “nite nite” But again he is 17 months and off meds totally. But there is hope. I probably could have done it earlier but I am a softy and I did what worked until it didn’t as I am sure you will hear many of us say frequently when it comes to sleep.