Yep I agree. Sleep is important for everyone and some ppl can function on broken sleep and others can't.

Isn't that the point of this thread tho? What's the big deal with self settling? Why is it up there as one of the main things a baby 'should' be doing? Especially when the training required causes a lot of stress and broken sleep in itself when bub hasn't read the fact sheets. We should all just be assessing our own situations and doing what works at the time so everyone gets some sleep. There's no rod created when you meet the babies needs.

We've had dreadful periods of 'bad sleep' and not settling, but I've still not considered 'training' them.. I've only ever thought aaaargh somebody help me get thru this.. And chanted 'this too shall pass' over and over lol.