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Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Clara Edwards

Clara Edwards — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:17 +0000

Our daughter had been an erratic sleeper (much of it our fault, in
retrospect) and frequently ended up in bed with us, constantly
nursing, waking and thrashing around for most of the night, and
only falling asleep draped on my wife or I. After several months of
this we were really at the end of our ropes and with much
trepidation we started Ferber – By the third evening she was
sleeping through the night in her crib, and the first two nights it
only took 40 and 20 minutes respectively.

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Emilio Gonzalez

Emilio Gonzalez — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:16 +0000

Ferber does a good job of describing what happens when you sleep.
Apparently everyone wakes up in the middle of the night. The key
thing is that you need to learn how to get back to sleep on your
own.

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Amber Laws

Amber Laws — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:15 +0000

We were careful to put him in bed before he was completely asleep
so he could adjust to the idea of being in bed on his own, without
getting startled by falling asleep with one of us and waking up
alone.

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Roberta Reid

Roberta Reid — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:15 +0000

I guess my main problem with Ferber was the way that it’s an exact,
rigid theory or philosophy. But I have that problem with
“attachment parenting” too.
Like I mentioned before, we did the crying time too, but we mixed
it up with other stuff and kind of found a balance that worked for
us.
But that was us.
Good luck with number #2.posted by chococat
at 1:11 PM on October 2, 2006

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Debbie Hubbard

Debbie Hubbard — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:14 +0000

Good luck.posted by dragonsi55 at 7:07 AM on September 29, 2006

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Douglas Witherell

Douglas Witherell — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:13 +0000

This idea that you can have a child sleeping quietly in three
days is more to appease the parents, isn’t it? Crying kids are a
big drag, but it takes a lot of effort to make them sleep
comfortably with good habits.

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by William Aguilar

William Aguilar — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:12 +0000

The thing is, children are not interchangable. For varying reasons,
some kids sleep well righr away and some don’t. Some of those
reasons are parental, but many of them have to do with the child’s
temprerament or medical conditions (like, say allergies). What we
found with our son is that hius sleeplesness seems to come from the
fact that he was too interested in things to settle down. So we
created a bedtime routine for him that begins with his bath and
ends with some books. An hour before bedtime we put on calming
music (like Brian Eno’s Music for Airports or solo piano stuff by
Linford Detwieler). Until very recently, the routine included being
rocked for a while in a rocking chair.
Whatever you do, you’ll need to find what works best for your child
by experimentation. I don’t reccomend the cry it out method, but at
some point you will need to firmly and gently teach your child to
sleep on his own, and that will be disappointing to the child, and
that will involve tears. But you’ll know when it’s time for
that.

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Robert Spangler

Robert Spangler — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:12 +0000

The “Cry it out” method didn’t work on him — what did work was
something similiar to mph’s method. But
it was a slow process.

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Robin Kelly

Robin Kelly — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:11 +0000

We got a baby massage book and started “bedtime” about 30 minutes
before we put him down for the night. We’d do 15 minutes or so of
massage, then we’d give him a quick warm bath. Then we’d swaddle
him up and start his bottle in the living room, transitioning him
to a rocking chair in his nursery when he was about 3/4 done with
it. By the time he hit the bottom of the bottle, he was ready to go
to sleep.

Comment on Why is my baby’s sleep inconsistent? by Justin Schultz

Justin Schultz — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:10 +0000

An idea? To appease us? We spent many months with
various techniques that didn’t work, Ferber did. We didn’t set out
to have it happen over a given time frame. It so happened that it
took 3 nights. I’m terribly sorry our experience wasn’t a “drag”
for even longer.