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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a crunchy mom, I am more a Cheetos-and-Cocomelon mom, but I just could not do anything that even vaguely approached sleep training.  Kid woke up every 90 min for two solid years. I lived in the city and I didn’t work so it was doable.

Magically kid started sleeping thru the night at 2. Really nothing had changed, he just one day? out of no where? slept all night. It was and is glorious. That day will come for you, too.[/quote]

Are you really recommending a family not sleep well for 2 years or 8? [/quote]

It's a really personal decision. For me, I remember watching the news stories about the romanian orphanages. and then, growing in the dc area, meeting those kids who had been adopted into the US...letting babies cry themselves to sleep, vomit from fear, accept that no caretaker is coming to soothe them-- it just seemed too similar to how those kids were raised.

I understand why people sleep train--if you have to work to support your family, you need sleep to function. But on a deeply personal level, i could not do it. I shared my story because I think people take advantage of the fear of young parents, telling them that if they don't sleep train, that their kid will never learn to sleep on their own, that they will be 8 before it happens, etc. And it's just not true. [/quote]

You are a very dramatic person.[/quote]

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