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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pardon my ignorance, but does sleep training only mean getting baby to sleep thru the night? I'm more concerned about eventually moving baby from our bed to his crib in the nursery, but am ok with getting up to feed him during the night. He's currently 8 weeks old. When is a good time to start thinking about transitioning to the crib? I don't mind him in the bed now, but we never really planned on co-sleeping...it just happened...so we aren't really wanting it to be a super long term thing. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.[/quote]

We didn't use sleep training to get our children to sttn.  Both my kids were completely unable to get themselves to sleep without having a nipple in their mouth or being bounced into oblivion.  My daughter especially was a TERRIBLE sleeper, woke up every 45-60 minutes all night long and was a tired mess.  We tried the calmer options of shushing/patting and nothing worked.  We did Ferber at 5 months to get her to fall asleep on her own but I always told myself that I would nurse if she was truly hungry since 5 months is so young, but just not let her fall asleep at the breast and make sure she goes down in the crib drowsy but awake after the training.  She didn't actually sttn without being fed until she was about 16 months actually.

To those of you who "shame" those of us who do sleep training I will say this.  I almost FELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL because I was so exhausted from lack of sleep.  So...what's a better option for me?  Dead baby or baby with this mysterious "broken bond"?  Hm?   How would you feel if I had fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed into you and your loved ones?  Yeah, that's what I thought. [/quote]

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