Gentle sleep training- worked for anyone?
my baby is 6.5 months old. I was totally against sleep training tbh, still quite skeptical about it. But lately, she has been waking up 5-6 times at night, immediately starts crying! around 1/3rd of times, I can feed/rock her and put her back to sleep but the rest, she just resists and cries every time I put her down in her bassinet.
I have a nanny but I try to handle nights so she takes care of most things during the day. I feel like I am dying because I am someone who takes a while to fall asleep and by the time I sleep, she’s awake. My back hurts when we cosleep because I am so stiff and hardly get space plus it just stresses me out, the blankets, my husband on the same bed, her rolling/crawling out of the bed later on. I really really think a separate sleeping space is the best option for me but it has not been working out lately.
So I’ve been considering gentle sleep training, something like the pick up put down method. Has it worked for anyone?
Edit: We sleep in the same room at the moment but eventually want to shift her to an adjoining small room. The nanny sleeps there currently and I wake her up when I am too tired to do anything.
I want to add that I’ve tried a few things before that worked as one off situations like I play the songs we usually play when I am feeding her to sleep. And I put her down in the bassinet after walking around with her for a while.. then gently patted her head while she was in the bassinet, followed by walking around or standing next to it. She sucked on her fingers and went to sleep but this only worked because it was very late and she must’ve been very sleepy imo