wassupp snoop doggy dog mommies. rock yo babies to sleep errr night , no matta what hoes!

I am a mother of 3 and the best advice I can give is a little tough. LET THEM CRY IT OUT. MUCH harder for you than them. It’s a habit once they are 6 months old and every one of them will break out of it if you exercise some consistency. If you are having trouble “hardening” to it while they are crying, do it gradually – picking them up one less time each consecutive night until they realize you aren’t coming and that they are fine – they will tire out. NOTE – some are VERY stubborn and cries will turn to angry screams – they will sound like they are hyperventilating!! (they are just fine even though you will feel guilt all the way to the tips of your toes – fight it girl!)

I give brooke a lot of credit, she has 4 kids and the youngest being only 14 months apart and you never see a nanny out with her kids. She has been honest in saying having 2 babies 14 months apart has been even harder for her than when she had neriah and sierra who were 2yrs apart or when she had rain when neriah and sierra were 7 and 5. She also has been doing awesome on dwts, so she is balacing both motherhood and career. If she and david needed a sleeping pill, well good for them to get rest

i believe in the CIO method. i peronally don’t think that letting my daughter cry for 30 mintues for 3 nights is going to harm her in any way. i give her all the love and affection she needs every other time of the day, that’s what i think she’ll remember. she sleeps better and is in a better mood since i let her cry it out, she naps better, and soothes herself. i don’t want to be one of those moms who gives their child everything they want just because they cry for it. of course it hurt me to hear her cry and not go in to get her, but i didn’t want to start a pattern. i pictured her being a 2 year old, screaming at the grocery store because i won’t buy her a candy bar. even though they seem so fragile when they’re infants, i don’t think it’s too early to start teaching them. sleeping more at night helps me keep my sanity and be a better mother, so it was worth it to me. like i said, of the 1000 or so times my 11 month old has cried i’ve gone to her 997. are the three nights i didn’t going to affect her forever and make her think i’ve abandoned her or not trust me? absolutely not.

I was so against the cry it out method before I had my daughter. She started sleeping through the night around 3 months, then suddenly stopped around 5, she was waking up every 2 or 3 hours again and I was a zombie and so moody everyday, I was snapping at everyone and could barely hold a conversation or keep my eyes open. I tried everything else and finally crying it out when she was 7 months old because I felt as if I would lose my mind otherwise! I did her usual bedtime routine and put her down at 8. When she woke at 11 I didn’t go in her room at all, but she never got into the hysterical crying or I would have. She fussed and made noise for about an hour the first night, then 30 minutes the next night, and about 10 or 15 the last night. It hurt me so much to sit there and listen to her and not go to her, but I knew I would be a better mommy if she and I both slept through the night. I just had to “train” her in a sense. She had to learn that she couldn’t eat and get up to play in the middle of the night anymore. Now she sleeps a solid 12 hours, and even naps better during the day. She’s a happier baby because she sleeps better. I suggest it to any mother in the same situation I was in, pure exhaustion and on the verge of a breakdown:) It goes against your natural instinct to let your baby cry, but I just kept thinking about the benefits and how this was the start of many things I will be teaching my daughter. It’s not for everyone, but I’m glad it worked for me.

For someone with a Master’s in Psych, Amy, you sure are speaking like an uneducated person. Not because of your opinions, but because you present them as fact when they are not. There is plentiful research available to prove that rocking babies to sleep and indulging their every whim DOES negatively impact their sleep habits, which is in no way fair or beneficial to them. And just because you cannot stand to allow your child to cry in his or her crib and feel obligated to soothe him or her at every opportunity does not give you the right to demand that everyone else follow suit.

If you don’t care about having your and your child’s sleep disrupted, that’s your business. But you have some nerve portraying alternative sleep techniques as something they are not.

“Sleep Nurse”? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Anyone out there know what a sleep nurse would do? Just curious.

My boys are 3 and 6. The 6 year old has always been a great sleeper (well, except while I was pregnant with number 2 but we worked through it) and the 3 year old has never been as good of a sleeper. Different personalities!! The second is way more stubborn!! He seems to go through periods where he wakes at night then it just stops for a while then starts again. Taking him back to bed and getting him settled with covers and his sleep animal is usually all it takes.

Every child is different and in the end end parents have to do what is comfortable for them. If you are not comfortable with a certain sleep method research other suggestions. It won’t work if you are not comfortable implementing it.

why do you celebrities have so many babies and so close?is it all a publicity stunt?

I used the Babywise method Sleep-Eat-Wake (feed your baby every 2-1/2 to 3 hours). At 7.5 weeks he slept between 7 and 8 hours a night. A week later he started sleeping 10 hours at a time! And I never let him “cry it out” once. I have a very happy baby and am thrilled to be getting sleep!

JM- I agree. You should be respecting the mother’s wishes for how she wants her child put to bed.

That said, I want to point out that there are other options besides Attachment Parenting and CIO. One that I’ve heard a lot is to lay your baby down in his/her crib, and then come back to check on him/her in about five minutes.

The next night, stretch it to ten, and so on until you get to the point where your baby is asleep before you go in to check on him/her.

Another method I’ve heard is to lay your baby in his/her crib, and then sit in a chair next to the crib and talk softly and reassuringly to him/her if s/he starts to cry.

The next night, move the chair to the doorway, the night after that into the hallway, and so on.