Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Go ahead and call me an a**hole everyone, but this is why you sleep train at 4 months.
Yes, completely agree. We co-slept with my daughter, who breastfeed throughout the night, until we sleep trained her at 13 weeks (on our pediatrician's recommendation). It was a difficult (agonizing) first night (she cried for an hour and I sat outside her door and cried too) and then a little less the second night and then not at all the third night. She was 13 pounds at the time and we were able to drop the night feed and she just ate more during the day. She has slept 12 hours (8:30 pm- 8:30 am) ever since (we have blackout curtains) and her naps during the day stabilized and lengthened. Sleep training allowed us all to get more and better quality sleep. She is almost 14 months now and bed time is really nice and stress-free. Occasionally she'll have a bad dream and start crying and we'll go into her bedroom and change her diaper and cuddle her for a few minutes before retreating, but after leaving the crying doesn't continue.
I would recommend the "cry it out" method. It's painful initially, but we knew from our daughter's personality at 13 weeks that Ferber wouldn't work for her or us. It just seems aggravating for everyone. Don't make it a power struggle!
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