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Anonymous
| Hello - has anyone with a "high needs" baby (according to Dr. Sears) successfully done sleep training? If so, can you pass along any advice? We're going to try it out this weekend, but I'm concerned that it may not work at all. Thanks! |
Anonymous
| What constitutes a baby being labeled as "high needs"? |
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This is what I've used to define "high needs." http://www.askdrsears.com/html/5/t050400.asp
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Anonymous
| I tried and it was a miserable failure. Mine cried until she vomited 3 nights in a row and I gave up. Fast forward 2 years and we are still roommates. |
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| The method at www.mybabysleepsatnight.com really worked for me and my friends. good luck |
Anonymous
This is your website, huh? |
Anonymous
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I had a high needs baby, according to the Sears definition (intense, stubborn, intense, louder than any other baby you can name, persistent, intense).
For a variety of reasons that aren't relevant here, I sleep "trained" him by basically making him CIO for about a week. We didn't go in to soothe him, either. Just made sure he wasn't choking on puke, etc. I think this was at about 6 mos., and only at bedtime (he never awoke during the night). He's 7 now and very tightly bonded to me. Maybe too much, who knows. He's also still incredibly intense and stubborn. |
Anonymous
Um, this is YOUR website. And it gives me a headache. And you love exclamation points!!!!!! FYI, this isn't really a forum for selling products. If you want to give OP some advice I'm sure she'd appreciate it, but if not you should contact Jeff about how to purchase ad space. |
Anonymous
| I've been lucky enough to have 2 high needs babies. #1 threw up like the pp said. #2 would break out in hives if left to cry for more than 5 minutes. So I got up at night for a LONG time. Good news: at 8 and 6 they both sleep very well. |
Anonymous
Even better is her other creepy website that doesn't actually say what it's about but thinks you will be stupid enough to enter in your e-mail address to find out. I get quite enough spam as it is, thank you. |
Anonymous
| We used CIO but our baby was 6 mos and cried for an hr. It probably took a year for him to successfully sleep through the night. Now he wakes up about an hour before our alarm and will climb into our bed. He's almost 4. |
Anonymous
| I had a high needs baby who turned into a special needs kid and frankly, sleep training isn't for everyone. Some children just need extra reassurance and love, and it's your job to give it to them. |
Anonymous
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I had a high needs baby according to Dr. Sears. She cried, she fussed constantly, had to be handled, couldn't sleep on her own, she woke up every 45 minutes to two hours to nurse during the night. We were zombies. Did the sleep training at five months (NOT CIO -- this is such a misnomer) and she did beautifully. In fact, her "high needs" disappeared virtually overnight. In reality they were sleep deprivation. When she began sleeping through the night and getting in two naps a day, she turned into a placid little pumpkin who most people say never stops smiling.
I recommend the Ferber method -- checks every five, ten, then fifteen minutes. Don't touch, just verbal reassurance. Institute two naps as well. |
Anonymous
| I did this...but be aware that it might take MUCH longer. |
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| Your so observant! That absolutely IS my website and I do love my exclamation points. Probably more so because both my sites...for sleep training and the "creepy" one referred to have been so successful. Thanks !!!!! <----did you catch all those? And just to be clear...you choose to enter your information after you CHOOSE to visit my sites, which obviously YOU have. Its not creepy...its preventing spam. Your welcome. |