The main problem was that our son, who was 1 year old at the time of training start, resisted being laid down into the crib. Resisted means that he cried and wept with a terrified "I am going to die" look on his face and arms extended towards you begging for help for 45 minutes! We could not bring ourselves to leave him alone in his room like that. So, we laid besides him in the crib until he fell asleep (took about an hour) and sneaked away.
After a couple of months, we put some pillows beside his crib and waited there for him to fall asleep which again took about 1 hour each day. Every half an hour, I changed places with my spouse. It sometimes took 1.5 hours. After he fell asleep he usually woke up when we put him into the crib and the whole procedure lasted for another half an hour. Trying to carefully lift and place him into the crib was bad for our backs too.
Finally we decided to buy an adult size matress and laid it on the floor of his room and gave up on the crib altogether. At bed time, we cuddled him, played children's music, and when he fell asleep, we simply left the room without the crib hassle. Win-win :)
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