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[quote=Anonymous]I didn't sleep train but only because I didn't have to. Most people I know sleep trained because they had to go to a FT job at the end of their leave and most people cannot work 8 hours a day after getting up with a baby 2-4 times over the course of the night. Some can, but most can't.

The single biggest factor in being able to avoid CIO for me (because I would have found it extremely hard to do -- I think it's more tortuous for parents than babies, to be honest) was that I worked PT and could take a nap every morning from 8-10am (while the baby napped) so that when my sitter arrived, I felt like a human being and could go to work without feeling exhausted.

If you hate CIO and think it's heartless/cruel, you should advocate for better parental leave policies, flexible schedules for parents with babies, and more support for new parents. We live in a culture that expects babies to STTN by 2 or 3 months so that their parents can go work 40 hours a week, and that's why CIO is so huge in the US. In counties with proper parental leave policies, people still work on getting their child to STTN, but it is way less urgent and advice like "your child will figure it out on their own" doesn't feel like a slap in the face because parents are afforded the leeway to let their kid figure it out. New parents are tired but less is expected of them in the rest of their lives, so that tiredness is not the crisis it is in the average US household. [/quote]

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