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re: "Crying it out" with an infant - OT Parents, how was your first experience?
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:05 am to StringedInstruments
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:05 am to StringedInstruments
Suck it up and put your foot down. It'll work out for the best in the long run. That is unless you'd like to be like me.
I moved out of my bedroom after my second child. My 5 year old daughter sleeps with me at night and my 2 year old son sleeps with the wife in the other. They're attached like white on rice.
I don't mind but sometimes it gets overbearing. It definitely puts a monkey wrench into personal time with the wife. And over a long period of time, it can take a toll into the marriage as it'll roll over into other things.
I moved out of my bedroom after my second child. My 5 year old daughter sleeps with me at night and my 2 year old son sleeps with the wife in the other. They're attached like white on rice.
I don't mind but sometimes it gets overbearing. It definitely puts a monkey wrench into personal time with the wife. And over a long period of time, it can take a toll into the marriage as it'll roll over into other things.
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Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:14 am to papz
Damn, after reading this thread I realized how lucky we have it with our 13 month old. We never did any sleep training and weren't very consistent with where he slept or how he went to sleep.
For the first 4 months or so, he slept in our room, some nights in the bed with us some nights in a little pack and play next to the bed. After that we started putting him in his crib in his room, we'd pick him up and rock him back to sleep on the few nights he'd wake up screaming. For the past 6 months or so he's been putting himself to sleep around 8 and sleeping through the night.
Also, I'm not sure where I stand on the "crying it out" method. There's more and more studies that point to the harm this method causes to children. And I'm not sure the validity of these studies either fwiw, but they point to psychological and emotional damage.
For the first 4 months or so, he slept in our room, some nights in the bed with us some nights in a little pack and play next to the bed. After that we started putting him in his crib in his room, we'd pick him up and rock him back to sleep on the few nights he'd wake up screaming. For the past 6 months or so he's been putting himself to sleep around 8 and sleeping through the night.
Also, I'm not sure where I stand on the "crying it out" method. There's more and more studies that point to the harm this method causes to children. And I'm not sure the validity of these studies either fwiw, but they point to psychological and emotional damage.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 9:24 am
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