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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My babies weren’t bad sleepers they were just human babies!  Without sleep training (meaning let your baby cry) both my babies were sleeping through the night (12 hours with one dreamfeed).

They are both great little sleepers now at 3 and 5.  Both go to bed easily and happily and have no anxiety issues (which I think is tied to too young sleep training). [/quote]

Lol. You have absolutely no idea at 3 and 5 if your kids will have anxiety. [/quote]

I know they don’t have anxiety now like several kids in their classes do. 
And only old people use “lol”. [/quote]

DP. As the parent of a child with severe anxiety I suggest you get away from this idea that your child does not have anxiety because you're such an awesome parent. It's genetic. We really have a terrible attitude towards mental illnesd in this country, and you are part of the problem.[/quote]

DP.  Look, a child not sleeping and being up every hour or few hours for years can’t be good for anxiety.  [/quote]

[b]Oh is that your medical opinion? [/b]Look lack of sleep is definitely bad for health (I am pro sleep training)  but there is no evidence of long term harms from either sleep training or not sleep training. There is no need for you to stigmatize mental  illness in this debate, so just stop.[/quote]

No, it’s common sense.  Restorative sleep is important.  Your child not sleeping cannot be good for them.  [/quote]

Again, I am pro sleep training. We sleep trained successfully, and our child has severe anxiety. Research shows sleep training does not impact long term emotional health, one way or the other, so while I agonize about many of the decisions I've made as a parent, that is definitely not one of them.

Look, assessing the quality of your parenting based on whether you sleep trained is stupid enough. But blaming other parents for their children's anxiety because of some judgement about whether they sleep trained or not, is stunningly ignorant. But I guess that's just how you want to be.

[quote]Australian researchers, who published their findings in the journal Pediatrics on Monday, found that of 225 six-year-olds, those who participated in sleep training when they were babies were no different in terms of emotional health from those who did not.[/quote]
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-infant-sleep-training/infant-sleep-training-has-no-long-term-effects-study-idUSBRE8890JP20120910[/quote]

It's not about sleep training per se; it's about infants getting enough sleep (by whatever means).

https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/508055

[i]Key Messages
Sleep pattern changes dramatically in early childhood.

Establishing a healthy sleep pattern in early life is very important for child development.

Sleep plays a critical role in learning and memory, emotional regulation, and related brain structure development.[/i]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5440010/

[i]Infant sleep is a particularly interesting field of research due to its dynamic trajectories, the developmental changes that occur during this period, and the interaction with other developmental domains. More specifically, we reviewed the association between infant sleep and cognition as well as physical growth. From the reviewed literature, we conclude that sleep plays a key role in those domains with its maturation paralleling, preceding, as well as resulting from interactions with cognitive and physical maturation. Exact mechanisms have not been the focus of this review and still remain to be understood; however, the maturation of central nervous system structures like the hypothalamus or the neurotransmitter system underlies both cognitive development and the regulation of sleep/wake cycles.84[/i]

https://www.childrenscolorado.org/conditions-and-advice/conditions-and-symptoms/conditions/sleep-deprivation/[/quote]

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