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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look. Nothing wrong with trying at 4 months or 6 months or whatever you decide. Just have an open mind and if it's not working after a fully consistent week, do bloodwork. 
I'm the pp with 2 easily sleep trained kids and one w severe anemia who didn't. I don't believe it harms kids who are ready for it. [u]It does become abusive when it turns into months of crying by the child and /or is used to just ignore the child . [/u]
But none of that is likely in your case. So good luck.[/quote]

The problem is everyones answer to a kid who doesnt sleep 7-7 is to sleep train and just be consistent. Waking regularly is a protection against SIDS. Waking at night is biologically normal. Sleep is developmental and babies are not robots.

If you come from the idea that babies MUST sleep through the night at x age or x weight thats where the problem comes in. Its funny that no sleep training moms are labeled as militant or terrorist when literally the reason we choose not to cosleep is because all babies are not the same and dont develop at the same rate. We dont expect our children to sleep through. The ones who are ready, do it without any intervention.

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I'm p.o. and I agree except that sometimes intervention is necessary. My anemic child slept much better once their hemoglobin hit normal levels. (Turned out they were vitamin c deficient as well, so a bit of trial and error). 
Crying it out works when a kid is ready for it to work. But I don't believe my sleep trained kids would have slept thru the night if I hadn't tried cry it out with them consistently. In both cases within 3 nights they were sleeping thru the night. [/quote]

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