What Should I Be Doing With My Newborn, Seriously

Twelve Hours' Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old: A Step-By-Step Plan for Baby Sleep Success by Suzy Giordano

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Twelve Hours’ Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old

 

I’m sure that I wrote about this upthread, but we were too wimpy to sleep train our oldest. She didn’t sleep through the night until she was 13 months old and I’m surprised that our marriage survived. After I was doing an arbitration in which I could barely keep my eyes open, we decided to sleep train her by letting her cry it out and not pick her up.

The first night (a Thursday) was a practice night where I was going to do it while Mrs. W slept and if it got too bad, I was to pick her up and we would try for real the next night. Our daughter wakes up once at 2 a.m., and I speak to her for about 20 minutes before she goes back to sleep. The next night — our first “real” night of sleep training, we steeled ourself for the worst. Turns out our daughter slept through the night and never once woke up in the middle of the night again other than because she was sick.

We were planning on being tough for our second, but he slept through the night at 8 weeks without any effort on our part.

 

Damn yo, you never got to experience the “joy” of Ferberizing!! Listening to our first (at about 6 mos) cry for 25 mins (start at 5, then 10, 15, etc) was the most heartbreaking thing I ever did.

 

We are wimpy in that way generally and my now (gulp) 14 year old had some issues as a newborn so we were totally disinclined. That being said, she was up every single night and we knew that she mostly just wanted to be held.

We were committed to being tougher with our son, but he was a big fat baby who ate/nursed and pretty much slept through the night right away.

 

My last one would sleep only in the (detached) car seat for the first 8-12 months.

 

Search function functioning again?

 

My question too. The Information Age is amazing.

 

If you mean to say that’s how I revived this old thread, nope. I knew the name of the thread and it showed up via google.

 

Mrs. jlee didn’t know about breathable bumpers or Dr. Brown’s, so this thread has already paid for itself.

 

Be sure to take apart the sippy cups or bottles every week or two because they can get pretty gross in the cracks.

 

Don’t we all?

(Thanks.)

 

My wife is a germophobe so that was done on the regular.
Take each day as a learning experience, with this.
And get in a cat nap whenever you possibly can.