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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,
I dealt with a similar issue and my solution was to put the dogs in a part of the house where they couldn't wake her with a kong (a kind of chew/puzzle toy for dogs) before putting LO to sleep.  Once he had slept for 20 minutes or so, I would let them out.  It ended up being 45 minutes, 2 times a day that they were shut up--hardly cruelty--and the LO got the sleep he needed.  Is there anywhere in the apartment that the dogs can't wake her?[/quote]

OP, here. I like this idea. The best place I can lock them up is the walk in closet in the parent's bedroom. However, they're training the dogs to stay out of the bedroom areas (they use a shock scat-mat to blockade that area from them). Aside from that location, there's no feasible place to put him... However, MB got around to hooking up the crib cam today, so by tomorrow I can close in her door all the way,  crank up her music, and hope this is enough to keep the dogs from waking her when they go into an "elevator barking frenzy."

And to 13:55, just because you personally have never heard of that, it doesn't mean it's not a method that some pediatricians recommend. Her pediatrician felt it would be easier to wean her off the pacifier and her other soothing toys at this age for several reasons:

1. It's better to do so at this age before she begins to associate her pacifier with something that she "needs" to fall asleep with... you know, before she ends up like those 1 and 2 year olds (and even older), who cry and can't fall asleep when they don't have their pacifier to soothe with.

2. She recommend we remove all her small, pet blankets and her larger sleeping blankets so that she can a. learn to self-soothe on her own without these objects and b. wouldn't smother herself with them in a fit (because, when she has to CIO, predominantly at night while under her parents' care, they won't have to worry that she's hurting herself by covering her face and whatnot while squirming around).

3. While it's hard on her parents and I to have to bear her crying so much, she's not going to remember this stage of her life and won't become emotionally damaged by this. She'd be more damaged if we had decided to do so at an older age.

In short, the last thing I am is inexperienced. As the PP mentioned, I'm simply trying to carry out what's asked of me to the best of my ability. If she's crying for 25 minutes because the dogs startled her before she could actually fall asleep, I'm not going to sit there and let her cry any longer. I go in and comfort her as best I can, and put her back down when she's happier and calmer.[/quote]

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