It’s National Sleep Awareness Week!
If your baby isn’t sleeping through the night and you suffer from “sleepless in mommy insanity,” I invite you to check out my recent Ask Mom OnlineRI.com column where I shed light on a popular sleep method that can help your baby get back on track. (In her own crib!) https://onlineri.com/articles/ask_mom
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I am also a fan of the C.I.O method! My son kept waking after those 40min and I couldn’t figure it out why…when I DID I would go into his room and coax him back to sleep (by shushing, with the soother, etc.) and FOR US it worked like a charm! Since he was 4 months old he’s been sleeping through the night, and when he does wake in the middle of the night he is able to lull himself back to sleep. As much as it’s great for us I also think it’s important for babies to learn how to self-soothe…we need to teach them that just as we teach them everything else! I intended to do the same with my daughter but she is a much better sleeper (and soothes herself by sucking on her thumb) so we don’t have to run in and give her the soother every 10 seconds! I thought my son was a good sleeper…che was sleeping through the night (I mean literally-last dreamfeed at 11;30pm and waking at 9am!!!!!) by 6 weeks!!!!
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Yep. I agree. If baby has been fed and changed, let him cry it out. This mama needs her sleep. It’s not pretty when I’m sleep deprived so I let all 4 of mine cry it out. Didn’t take long before they learned to put themselves to sleep.
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Sometimes that really works like a charm! I do sleep work with lots of families – often desperately sleep deprived families – and gradual sleep training or crying it out can work FAST and benefit the whole family! Sleep is so important and parents are in charge, if your baby was chewing a plastic bag, you’d take it away no matter how much he cried, you know best. Sleep is the same, we know best how important it is, but parents expectations need to be age appropriate and realistic.
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