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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an infant that had never been a good sleeper. We do not believe in CIO or any form of sleeping training - he’s held for all naps and we co-sleep often at night. My good friend has a baby the same age who is a really good sleeper. She is very pro sleep training and schedules. She doesn’t believe in co-sleeping and sleep trained at 4 months old. She had made remarks several times about how I need to sleep train and that me holding my baby for all naps is preventing him from self-soothing. I think some babies are just not good sleepers. Are some babies just better sleepers or can you do things to make a bad sleeper a good sleeper? [/quote]

OMG. Is your DH a bad sleeper? If so, do you think that was caused by his mom holding him all the time for naps as an infant?

You need some perspective. Infancy is a year. Sleep habits change over a lifetime. If holding you baby gets you through the first year, do it. If it doesn't, don't. That's it. Stop worrying and listening to friends who are dumb.[/quote]

What in the world is this comparison? A baby who is a bad sleeper is a bad sleeper for longer than a year, but uh yeah no one here is talking about 35 year old grown men. The baby sleep training industry is a decades-old multimillion dollar industry with quite a bit of data to go off of at this point. If it was all gimmicks and woo woo it would not be the size it is. It turns bad sleepers to better sleepers. Does that mean you are a bad mom if you choose a different route? Of course not, but that wasn’t OP’s question. [/quote]

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