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[quote=Anonymous]I have three kids who sleep well and always have. DH and I were also those crazy people who started moving our babies onto sleep schedules basically day 1. Not CIO day 1 or anything but starting a schedule day 1 and moving towards it every day. I think we had a weird benefit (it was not in any other way a benefit) in that our first DD was in the nicu for two weeks. And in the nicu those babies are put on the clock mostly for health reasons. They need to sleep to grow so she was on a three hour schedule. Eat, sleep, change, every three hours on the dot. So we got a baby home that on a rigid schedule and we adhered to it.

We did the same thing for our next two kids (and definitely we gently moved towards this there was no CIO at all really. But everything we did moved towards a schedule and self soothing. I would always wait just a minute before responding, I would always try to hold back a feed for a little while if it was early by holding the baby or rocking, we never let them skip a nap or start the day at 5am (DD liked to try to wake up really early and I would just sit in the dark room with her emphasizing sleep until at least 6:30).

Anyway, people tell me we got lucky, and I think we did, they are all solid sleepers, but I also think a lot of people thought we were psycho sleep people and those people also like to tell me how lucky I am. And im like, I think those are contradicting thoughts![/quote]

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