Dear Sleep Trainer Expert

I think this is always going to be an "unhealthy" debate where each party defends their ground.

I will be totally honest and if it was not for Kennith I would probably be up 12 times a night with 3 bottles and playing co-sleeping.

Kennith "allowed" me to do what ever I thought was best until 6 weeks and then he decided to stand up and set up some rules.

Sleep training was one of them.

With Isabelle, he let me "do it my way" until she was nearly 3 months.

She was breastfeeding practically all night, sleeping in my bed, I was rocking her to sleep and and and .... and I had a fabulous reason why I was doing all of them.

The short story is I went to book club. I came back and she was in her cot, fast asleep.

Initially I was bleeding angry, because "you are not a mom you don't understand what my child needs ''''"

He warned me to leave her alone and let her sleep.

She never slept in our bed again, and albeit for the odd night now and then when she is ill, she sleep in her own bed, and I sleep in mine.


<but other moms might choose co-sleeping, or not sleep training and all the power to them>

Okay let me get some wine first.

Okay ready.

Well basically my poll looked like this:

1 Sleep train
2 Medicate baby
3 Throw baby against wall
4 Drive over cliff

What to do???

I think this issue is a bit like the vaginal birth versus c-section debate, no clear winner and each side defending her territory like her life depends on it.

I am about to go and get my second glass of wine, and it is 20h11 --- we all choose what works for us at the end of the day.

Some moms are really fine with standing up a dozen times during the night .... some not so much.

To each his own ........

And did I mention that it is not yet 8 and my son is asleep in his bed. No crying. We read him a story and he kissed us good night. He seems fine.

I have typed a few replies. Not to you but to the author of this. They ranged from sarcastic to annoyed to guilty.

hehehe...funny

Yaz wrote: She seems very happy today. Well, she's quiet anyway. Not hassling me at all! Bonus. xxx

He-sterical .... love it.

No flaming here.
I am totally into controlled sleep patterns at a very early age = my sanity.
But, we see how well that is working out.

Have I mentioned it is 19h51 and all three kids are asleep while I drink a glass of wine and surf the net?