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[quote=Anonymous]Mine did not sleep through the night until he was 21 months old, when we moved him out of the crib. We went from wake-ups every 2 hours, completely with screaming to the point of vomiting, to sleeping 10 hours without issue.

I never imagined I'd take my child out of the crib that early. But one night I was nursing him to sleep, because putting him in the crib awake just lead to aforementioned screaming and vomiting, when he popped off, said "night night, mama!" and laid down on the floor next to his crib. I was confused, but maybe he was suddenly no longer needing to be nursed to sleep. So I scooped him up, said "night night!" and put him in the crib.

Nope, screaming. Repeat nursing again, him hopping down, "night night!" and laying on the floor.

So I took the mattress out of the crib, and he laid down on it happily. I sang a few songs, kissed goodnight, and left. And he slept for 10 hours. I have no idea what the difference was, but it worked. He slept. And the next morning he woke up and called out "Up, mama! I up!" He never tried to escape, and for years afterwards, he would call out to let us know he was awake. People told us we were crazy at best, absolutely insane and negligent at worse. But he slept. And I slept. And it worked for us.

I have no idea if moving out of the crib will flip that magic sleep switch for your child, OP. And frankly if someone told me to try it, I would have thought they were nuts. But it worked when nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing else worked. This was a child who would wake up in his crib, scream bloody murder and then vomit within 30 seconds. It was awful. If he was willing to lay down on his own and sleep without the crib, I was so desperate I was willing to try it.[/quote]

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