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Originally Posted by inv4zn
In the end, whatever you read online or hear from others may not work at all for your kid. I mean think about it, if some source says kids at 6 months can sleep for 8 hours, well what about kids at 5.99 months. What if they sleep for 7.5 hours only. etc. etc.
Use whatever you read/hear as a guide, and figure out what works for your situation. Don't worry if your kid is a bit different, and don't compare with other kids.
The biggest one is my niece, refused to crawl. She sat and sat and sat, and then suddenly one day decided she was gonna walk. Things like that.
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100% this.
First kid slept 5 hrs through at 3 mo. 6-7 hrs at 5 mo. People used to ask us what sleep training method we used.
"Uh, white noise machine and turn off the lights." That was all we did. He would fuss for a bit then sleep.
Second kid was more fussy though, would need skin to skin contact for 2-3 hrs to fall asleep and then would wake through the night. We had a mattress down in their room where one of us would need to be woken up from a few hours later. Eventually, it turned out they wanted a bed rather then a crib ("no crib. want bed" <points at brother's bed>, so at 14 mo, they moved to a toddler bed and it worked better. Kid wanted the option of getting up at night to go to our room. Just wanted control of their environment.