There is also the Ferber method, which involves going in and out of the room as they cry or protest, to reassure them they’re not on their own. There is cry it out, or CIO, where you leave your child to cry and come to the eventual realization that you aren’t coming back- that one is hard for obvious reasons. There are different types, and each is challenging in different ways. But by the time she turned 1, we realized that while she liked to actually sleep on her own (save for her cuddly brown bunny), the only place she wanted to fall asleep was in her dad’s arms. She slept in our room in a bedside cot until six months, and moved to her own shortly after. Things were pretty normal for the first six months - the usual newborn sleep schedule of broken sleep and blurry eyes, but a baby who, thanks to our refusal to let her fall asleep on us unless we were wide awake, was pretty fond of her own cot. As a high sleep-need person myself, I knew that would really damage my mental health and ability to function as a human being. I had friends and family with children well into their toddler years who still rarely did, and almost never in their own bed. When our first child was born in the summer of 2021, I was adamant that we would do whatever we needed to make sure we had a child that slept, even if that meant investing in one of the best baby monitors or best swaddles out there.
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