Sleep Training starting tonight - Nervous mama here!

Hi! I’m working with a sleep consultant as I have a 10 month old. We start the plan today/ tonight for sleep training.

Current situation- 10 month old needs to be rocked and fed to sleep. He will sleep 4-5 hours in crib then wakes hysterical and won’t resettle for more than 30 min at a time after that initial wake unless he’s in my bed with me and we have done some co sleeping the past 2 months to survive.

I should have done sleep training to begin with but I’m exhausted. My husband works shift work as well so does a lot of nights.

Anyways- just posting as I’m so nervous to start but seeing so many success stories on this sub is so encouraging! My sleep consultant we hired seems positive that it’ll work :)

Any words of encouragement or little tricks is appreciated ! I honestly feel so bad and almost guilty we let it get to this point and that we should have done this months ago when sleep started becoming a hot mess.