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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sleep trained and it went great, but I set sleep habit expectations early so the sleep training was just the icing on the cake. My DD slept 8 hours through the night at 6 weeks and 12 hours through the night at 11 weeks.

Minimal breastfeeding helped. Not gonna lie.[/quote]

There's a special place in hell for people who were gifted naturally good sleepers and think it comes down to their superior parenting. [/quote]

I may not go that strong as I think it's a natural inclination to want to think things were our parenting when things go well, but I agree it's incredibly frustrating. [b]The parents with decent newborn sleepers tell me the things they did as if I didn't do EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE THINGS. Of course I did. It's all over the internet, all the basics. The vast majority of us are doing it.[/b] Sadly it works for some and not others. [/quote]

Except the vast majority of parents of bad sleepers *aren't* doing it all like you are. I can't tell you how many people I know who have "bad sleepers" but aren't doing the basics you reference. No schedule/routine to speak off, rocking to sleep, not using white noise and black out curtains, refusing to take a sleep class/read a sleep book because "it's too much work." When my friends and I had little kids, I heard lots of "this baby fits into my life, not the other way around." And those parents inevitably had kids who could catnap anywhere and weren't beholden to a nap schedule like DH and I were, but those kids struggled to STTN well into their infant year/toddlerhood. I think it's more fascinating that parents put 100% of the blame on their kids and 0% on themselves haha.

In any event, I am truly sorry that you've struggled and glad things are on the up and up![/quote]

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