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People who think I'm a monster for letting my six month old cry for an hour for three nights, yet are ok with their kids being chronically sleep deprived for literal years. Make it make sense. [/quote]

I don’t think you’re a monster. You are making the choice you think is best for your child and situation. My 1 year old wakes up many times each night (not sure how many) and I do nurse her back to sleep quickly. She is not chronically sleep deprived or developmentally delayed. I am fine with it since I stay mostly asleep during the wake ups, the first five months were really hard until she could nurse like that due to some early feeding issues. Now I feel normal though, I don’t count the wake ups or look at the clock, I just go back to sleep when I can.

There are definitely reasons some people need to have their babies fall asleep independently and I understand and support that. But falling asleep or going back to sleep independently doesn’t necessarily mean the baby wakes up more or less. It may shift their sleep patterns to consolidate night sleep more for different reasons at an earlier age, but I’m not aware of any research that shows this makes a difference developmentally (positive or negative). So it’s a parenting choice. I do think it’s important for parents to have the full information.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220322-how-sleep-training-affects-babies
“As well as asking parents to record sleep diaries, Hall's study included actigraphy, which uses wearable devices to monitor movements to assess sleep-wake patterns.
When the researchers compared sleep diaries, they found that parents who had sleep-trained thought their babies woke less at night and slept for longer periods. But when they analysed the sleep-wake patterns as shown through actigraphy, they found something else: the sleep-trained infants were waking up just as often as the ones in the control group. "At six weeks, there was no difference between the intervention and control groups for mean change in actigraphic wakes or long wake episodes," they wrote.”

When having a baby sleep independently, crying for an hour multiple times a week may indicate a schedule issue. I would look up age appropriate schedules and make sure baby doesn’t need some more awake time out of bed, they will likely fall asleep faster. [/quote]

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