Is it just a temperament thing?
My highly sensitive and spirited 21 month old still has to be rocked/bounced to sleep and wakes multiple times a night. Her sleep has improved but extremely slowly. Progression is painfully slow. We are still waking multiple times a night. I never felt like I could sleep train. It just seemed impossible with her temperament. I’m exhausted and often question everything I’ve done. We’ve had some real rough nights and moments where I’ve not been the best parent I could be. Frustrated, exhausted, angry, yelling, reaching my limit and overstimulated beyond belief. I always try to repair and I come back. I’ve never left my child to cry more than a minute and that was rare because usually my partner would step in to comfort her when I couldn’t handle it. But now I come across a post like this of an 18 month olds bedtime routine: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX7tsBYCN\_K/?igsh=MWFnM2NwNDIwa3lzZQ== The poster said in comments they did modified Ferber at 4 months. That sounds horrible but it looks like that baby is so happy and thriving and bedtime is so smooth…what am I missing??? I know social media is often fake but just this little bedtime routine seems so much better than anything I’ve ever done.