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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn’t even try to night wean.  Both kids stopped waking up to nurse when they didn’t need it anymore.  I think lots of feedings and solids during the day helped as well as a real demarcation between daytime and nighttime.  Lots of activity in the sunshine and engagement during the day and a set bedtime routine and long probed feed.  Totally dark and quiet room.  When they were still waking up hungry, I just went into the dark room and fed them then right back to the crib. [/quote]

How does this help OP?[/quote]

Acceptance.  The issue is solved by accepting a quick mid-night feeding and working to solve the issue during the day with more food and sunlight.

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Or you could night wean and not have your sleep disrupted.  I always had trouble getting back to seep after a night nurse and didn't sleep well until I night weaned.  Can we please stop telling women they have to accept bad sleep when there are perfectly acceptable methods of sleep training and night weaning?[/quote]

So have your partner get up and give a bottle.  I am vehemently opposed to any CIO in an infant but have given OP solutions on basic sleep training by changing what you do during the day. [/quote]

You don't want to do CIO, fine.  But scientific studies have shown it helps babies sleep better, has no adverse affects and parents who sleep train suffer significantly lower rates of depression.[/quote]

Respectfully, those are not my findings.  Crying releases a stress hormone called cortisol that is damaging to babies.  There are definite adverse effects in the long run.  Before object permanence, it’s cruel to leave a crying baby feeling abandoned.

And that said, why not try everything possible before letting an infant cry?  [/quote]

You know, I'm going to trust the findings of actual scientists and the recommendations of my pediatrician over an internet rando.

And again, my kid cried LESS overall since I sleep trained.  So if you want to avoid crying and stress, sleep training reduces that.[/quote]

Not my experience at all.  My kids weren’t cryers - still aren’t - so I can’t see how allowing them to cry as infants would have reduced crying.  [/quote]

Cool, my kid would cry, I would nurse him, and like 50% of the time he'd resume crying the second I put him back down.  It could take 20 minutes at a time to get him back to sleep multiple times a night.  So lots of crying, very little sleep.  Then I sleep trained.  20 minutes of crying two nights and instead I had a little baby who would just roll over and go back to sleep.  I realized my impulse to pick him up was actually harming him.[/quote]

NP here.  I’m more in the no-cio posters camp.  I’m not opposed to cio sleep training after object permanence (nine months or so) and ruling out all other issues.  Like if your baby was crying when you put him down because he was having gas pain or reflux.  I know how hard it is but I can’t see how it’s okay to let a newborn or young infant cry alone. [/quote]
NP- I've never understood this reasoning. I think it's far more cruel to let a baby CIO after object permanence when they know you exist but aren't with them. At that point they wonder why mommy isn't coming back when they cry. A four month old doesn't wonder where you are. [/quote]

Seriously?!  You think it’s better for your baby to feel totally abandoned and alone in a dark world than be pissed you aren’t coming?!!

DP here and you’re truly insane!! [/quote]

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