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Our 9.5 month old is always fed to sleep, and usually stays asleep as you can see. She does occasionally have false starts.

We trained her sister with the sleep wave method and it worked well. But if we leave the youngest for five minutes she'll cry til she throws up.

I want to sleep train her, but should I take the win of the fact that she stays asleep through the night? What can I expect if I continue down the path of no sleep training?

EDIT: Thank you everybody for the perspective. I forgot To mention she has an older sister with a different bedtime and a separate hourlong bed routine so between bath, dinner, reading, and two sets of songs and put downs, bedtime is long. I think I'm just trying to figure out how to make it more manageable.

Our little girl (8.5M) mostly sleeps through the night, and mostly gets at least one sleep cycle's worth during a nap before she stirs to wake. At both naps and night she takes a bottle right before she goes down, but as you can see she mostly stays down (with occasional false starts).

This works fine when both parents are home, but since she has a big sister, spending time with her in a dark room to get her down when only one of us is handling the night routine\ becomes difficult. Big sister starts breaking down the door to see what's going on and it starts the whole process over with little sister, who gets overtired and fussy.

And big sis (2.5Y) still needs like an hour to go down of reading, singing, bath, etc. Most of which her younger sister can attend, but I can't just put little sis down and walk back to big sis.

We've been slow to sleep train this time around because she stays asleep, but I think we have to, right? How else do parents of 2 young ones do it? What do you do when both go down within 30 minutes of each other? Any tips? I'm at a loss, and I would love to go back to the days of a few books, a song, and walking out of the room, but ever since the youngest came home that seems less and less possible now.

Our oldest (2.5Y) handles sleep fine and can fall asleep on her own after reading and songs.

Our youngest (9m) is currently on 2 naps (2.5/3/4.5), will stay in her crib the whole time and usually sleeps overnight with false starts very occasionally. Daily total 13.5H, naps around 2.5H, overnight 11H.

We did the sleep wave with great success with her sister, but when the youngest gets worked up enough crying, sometimes she'll throw up. I really don't like when that happens, so we try and space out her feeds further away from when we put her down. It has made us a little gun shy when it comes to fully committing.

Anybody got any tricks or tips to avoid vomiting when she's on her five minute stretch between our visits? Words of encouragement? Or should we just keep feeding to sleep since it doesn't seem to affect anything after the fact and she stays down for 11 hours.

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