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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sleep-trained babies and toddlers still wake up! They are just habituated to not bother their parents—and half the time the training "method" instructs parents to ignore wakeups anyway.

Also, waking up does not mean sleep deprivation for the child. (It definitely can for the adult). The child usually falls back asleep in about two minutes after soothing. [b]Parents will use whatever lies they need to justify the cruelty of CIO—as if a few minutes of disrupted sleep compares with the affects of abandonment/panic on a child's nervous and hormonal systems. [/b]

To answer your question, OP, my kids slept through the night with no wakeups starting around 2. They still required attention to fall asleep until 4 or 5, but not to stay asleep. [/quote]

You sound nuts.  DD slept through the night beginning at 10 weeks old, complete fluke; no training required.  After the 4 month regression, she was clearly suffering from multiple nighttime wakeups - whiny, fussy, uncomfortable, bags under her eyes.  We "sleep trained" for a grand total 2 days and she went back to sleeping through the night.  She wasn't waking up and deciding not to interrupt her cruel parents - she was sleeping.  At 4, she sometimes wakes up to a nightmare and, surprise surprise, reaches out to the evil sleep training monsters for comfort.  But she mostly sleeps 12 straight hours, because that's what she needs and she's accustomed to getting it by herself, in her own room.

I realize that my great sleeper's experience cannot be imputed to a kid who cries for hours until they make themselves barf.  Those are very different kids with very different needs.  And parents have very different breaking points!  But the idea that someone made a different parenting choice than you did so they are cruel liars who do not care about their kids as much as you do . . . like I said: you sound nuts.[/quote]

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