I've now been a mother for 6 months. We've fallen into a routine where she wakes me up around 6-7 am, I change her and feed her a bottle, and then put her back down in the crib while I make myself a cup of tea and some breakfast. Sometimes she falls back asleep for a bit, but usually she hangs out until my food is ready and I pick her up and we sit together and enjoy the morning as the sun rises and lights up the windows

our doctor mentioned sleep training, which I was convinced we might need for about 3 days because she had her shots and promptly forgot how to stay asleep in her crib. when she got over the vaccine cold, we started a night time routine where she gets fed, bathed, and then hangs out in Mama's bed with the lights dimmed as she gets settled down. Sometimes we read a story, sometimes we just smile at each other. Then she gets a bottle and falls asleep in my arms before crib time. We were gonna try a sleep training method after a few days of that, but the routine ended up working well enough that she rarely wakes up from the crib transfer, and consistently only wakes up once in the night for a bottle. Personally I can't just let her cry until she gives up on me coming to help when I know she needs something. If I woke up wet and hungry I'd just get up, change my pants, and eat. She can't do that, so it seems wrong not to help her, y'know? Of course I was never just gonna let her scream until she passed out, but even letting her be for the 3/5/10 minutes with minimal comforting in between like guides recommend feels so instinctually wrong to me. Anyway, butt pats and shushing have been getting her back to sleep as long as she isn't wet or hungry so why change when we both seem to be doing good? I'm happy as hell right now. If that means she might expect me to pick her up in the middle of the night every now and then, I think I can live with that.

Still, I'm curious, did any of you do anything you'd call sleep training? If so, what, and how did it go for you?