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[quote=Anonymous]Personally, I think 8 weeks is early to sleep train.  But I also know that all kids are different and if your son wasn't screaming his little brains out, maybe he was also ready for it.  Regardless, its a cold thing for her to say.  Either she thinks you have a very close relationship where you can say anything to each other without causing offense (like you'd tell a best friend that the hair color was not really working for her, or that her new boyfriend was awful)--or she's just clueless about human relationships.  If that's the case, I would say something back like "I'm really surprised you'd say something like that.  I feel very hurt by the implication that I'm not sufficiently loving to my baby.  I know we make different parenting choices and over the years to come, we're sure to agree on some things and disagree about others.  I hope we can support each other as sisters even if we feel like we'd make a different choice."

Sleep training seems like such a BFD when your baby is little, but then you get on the whole train of junk food, screen time, dating, skirt length, weed use, study habits, college applications, appropriate friends....and you can't even remember what you DID with sleep training.  All that stuff shrinks to nothingness in the rear view mirror.

This was one thing my mom was helpful on -- she had a ton of kids and was super old by the time I had mine, so she was like "eh, whatever -- just love them and they'll grow up fine." [/quote]

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