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[quote=Anonymous][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,[b] 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. [/b]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]

Trying hard and spending energy thinking about kid sleep doesn’t result in your kid sleeping.

Your child isn’t sleeping because you’ve made such a huge deal out of all of this.  All you need to do is have blackout curtains, a sound machine and put your kid down at the same time every night in his or her crib.  That is seriously all you do.  Don’t go back into the room unless there’s a fire.  That’s it.  [/quote]

LOL do you actually, seriously think we did not try that? Like, consistently for months? Do you think it’s easy to get a referral to a sleep clinic? Do You think they’ll give you one if you haven’t tried these absolute basics you are suggesting? You are exactly the kind of arrogant poster I was describing who just have no idea what it’s like to have a bad sleeper.[/quote]

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