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| | From:  Nić | Sent: 8/25/2004 3:06 PM |
Do you mean for sleeping? harry wouldnt sleep for over 12 months and after being so tired I tried this method and it worked..... its hard and you HAVE to stick to it If they wake in the night you go in and settle them without picking them up.... say ' mommys here, go back to sleep' and leave..... you time it about 3 mins ( up to you really ) and then go back and do the same...do not pick them up or hug them etc, you reasure them that you are there and then leave again.....leave it 5 mins, then 7 then 10etc..... We never got to 10 and by the 3rd night he woke up once and after I went in he went staight back to sleep and after that straight through the night........You have to be tough and I hated doing it but for a full nights sleep after over a year.......it was worth it |
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I used the cry out method, from very early on, but i did put a time limit on it when they were only a few months old. I would only let them go for 10 minutes at a time when they were only a few months old, but they soon learnt i was running at every whim!!! When both chidren were older i found this worked wioth hurties aswell. The slightest little scratch i didn't mother um and go over boaard on the sympathy, so they knew it was really bad it was worth crying about, and i gave um all the care and attention they needed!!!! |
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Yes I used this in the same way as Nic with all three of mine. It is very hard to hear them cry and not pick them up etc but it works a treat and teaches them to fall to sleep on their own. |
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I used this method with Rosie, she was about 7 months and hadn't slept for more than an hour at a time ever, so we used this method and it was so tough, but it worked, within a couple of days she was sleeping through the night - we didn't know ourselves! It's being cruel to be kind. |
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| | | From: ßratz | Sent: 8/27/2004 1:45 PM |
The only one I tried this with was Kyle. He was so evil, and when he was about 18 months I needed some sleep. He wouldn't sleep more than an hour at a time. Well, after about 30 minutes I couldn't do it anymore, and picked him up. LOL. I have to admit, I hate letting them cry. HATE it. So I figured, oh well. Whenever after that anyone would make a comment on spoiling him I would say "Yeah, so what? It's me that has to pay for it, so if I want to spoil him I will." Lucky for me, all the others are and were great sleepers. Kyle is 5, STILL doesn't sleep through about 2 nights a week.  |
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It does'nt do them any harm to cry for a little while, but I usually went in a lifted them, eventually my daughters settled into a good nights sleep. But my son never slept a wink and was permantley stuck to me via a pouch. He cried sore if I even left him for a minute to go to the loo, so I had to bring him with me in his baby seat, and he slept in my bed till he was 4  |
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With my eldest i didn't have a clue, lol. I cuddled her to sleep, rocked her, anything to get her to sleep and i didn't half pay for it, lol, i was still cuddling her to sleep when the next one came along but i did learn to not do that again. Both Christopher and Emily have always slept well, i put it down to them learning when they were babies. My SIL hasn't long had her 1st and is rocking him in a pushchair to get him to sleep and leaves him there all night, alright at the moment but in time she'll regret it, lol. Julie x x |
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