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[quote=Anonymous]My 15-month-old has a number of bad sleep habits like cosleeping and nursing throughout the night, and I would like to work on sleep training him. He sleeps part of the night in a toddler bed right now. We didn’t have any luck with the crib because he screams bloody murder every time he is put in one. The toddler bed has definitely improved that, but it also comes with a challenge that he can get out of bed whenever he pleases. We tried Ferber around 9MO, but he cried for hours and hours multiple nights in a row, so we gave up. We tried the sleep lady shuffle two months ago with my husband handling all wake-ups in his toddler bed so he wasn’t nursing at night at all, but a month in, he was still waking up between five and 10 times a night. My husband was usually able to get him back to sleep by touching his back for a few seconds and saying some comforting words, but if he didn’t go in, our son would escalate in his crime and become inconsolable. I am really just at a loss of what to do. It seems like extinction might be the only strategy we have left, but I am just not comfortable letting him cry alone for hours which I know he would do. If it was just a bit of crying, that would be a different story. Any suggestions?[/quote]

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