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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did your baby/child’s sleep ever improve? Either naturally or with non-CIO methods? My baby is 7 months and our lives have completely fallen apart from lack of sleep. I’m too tired to detail all the problems and how bad it is. I don’t want to sleep train but feel we have exhausted everything else, so I’d like to hear only from those who didn’t sleep train and eventually saw improvement to see if realistically there is any hope.

Please do not suggest obvious things like white noise, styles of sleep sack, wake windows, solids, etc. we have Tried. It. All.[/quote]

Yes no matter what sleep trainers tell you, sleep is developmental. It isnt "taught". That means you could turn someone who needs 8 hours as an adult into someone who functions at 100% on 5 hours. They normal rely on weird requirements for overnight sleep or that a late bedtime is bad/negligent.

If you are discussing STTN its defined as 5-7 hours, not 10-12. If your baby is doing that then they are STTN. My son did not STTN until 2.5. He still wakes 1-3/week at 4 years old. If its before 2am we take him back to his bed. If its after 2am we let him in our bed. We have seen progress so it doesnt bother us. He has always been a more frequent sleeper vs consolidated sleeper. It wasnt until he went down to 1 nap that he started sleeping more than 5-6 hours and until he dropped his nap that he sleeps well overnight (think 7/8-630-8).

He did have lots of food issues until about 15 months, then started teething (late teether who didnt have 2 year molars until 3), etc.

I coslept until 2 years and then weaned at 2.5 (when he started sleeping longer periods at night on his own- my supply became nonexistent and I wasnt interested in continuing to build it back up and then have it drop again as interest waned, repeat, repeat).

Please visit [url]https://evolutionaryparenting.com/test/bitss/[/url] a website that provides a screening tool for possible issues that may be causing more frequent wakening. Ex- food intolerances, chronic ear infections, englarged adenoids, etc.  [/quote]

Bizarre perspective. Not in my experience. Good sleep habits are absolutely taught. And they key is not running in the second they cry.

If your toddler is crying because you won't let them play with knives, are their poor little brains affected, too? This stupid line of reasoning that babies can't cry is ruining a generation.[/quote]

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