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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Caveat that I think sleep training older children or difficult, sensitive children is cruel (If your kid cried for 15 minutes for two nights then slept beautifully I’m not talking about you).

I completely agree with others that sleep problems at this age on two naps, especially in the second half of the night when sleep pressure is low, means move to one nap ASAP.

[b]I strongly recommend against rigid routine and things like blackout curtains and white noise [/b]because they make parents’ lives harder and create bad sleepers who can’t easily sleep in hotels, nap on the go for long trips etc.

Is your child verbal enough to communicate why they can’t fall back asleep? Could it be hunger?

Some kids are just terrible sleepers. I have one. [b]She didn’t sleep through the night until 20 months and that was only twice; she’s almost 2 and still wakes 1-3 times. We’ve tried everything. [/b]It’s torture. I’m sorry.[/quote]

I don’t think you should be giving advice.  [/quote]

I can see why you’d say that, but the way I see it, I have had to try way, way, WAY harder than the average parent to figure out infant sleep. I have read more studies, more books than most. I have tried more approaches and techniques. I just have a lot more experience. Abcs I was able to get a child to go from waking 20+ times a night (no medical cause) to 0-3.

The flippant parents who had easy babies who easily sleep trained in 1 night or who never woke more than a few times a night are the ones who shouldn’t comment. They know absolutely nothing and think they made their child a great sleeper when in fact they just had easy babies.[/quote]

I have 2 kids- one who was very easy to sleep train and the other much more difficult.

I don't think there is a single magic fix to a bad sleeper but I think the fact that you place importance on how kids sleep in hotels and on long trips is an indication that your priorities are misguided. Routines, blackout curtains and white noise machine cannot turn a bad sleeper into a good one. But to dismiss those things BECAUSE you think they make the kids unable to sleep in hotels and in cars is ridiculous.

What do you think people care more about? 1) sleep well in your house every night and if there is a trip that must be made, then deal with the sleeping issues that may or may nor arise or 2) cannot sleep well in the house but sleep well in hotels and cars. Unless a family is travelling every night or sleeping in hotels all the time, why would that even be an issue to worry about?

A good sleeper may not sleep well everywhere but that could be due to the new environment and not because of the white noise machine and blackout curtains. A bad sleeper is likely to be a bad sleeper everywhere so I don't know why anyone would even care about how they sleep in hotels/cars. They can't even sleep well at home, why would it be different elsewhere? They're bad sleepers because that's how they are, not because the routines/curtains/white noise machines suddenly turn them into bad sleepers. [/quote]

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