Babble

My daughter who is now 7 months old wakes up about twice a night not because she is hungry but because she is so used to my husband and I coming to her and putting her pacifier back in. I try to let her cry for a little bit because I know she isn't fully awake but I can't bring myself to do it...

Hello! My son is now almost nine months, but I had the same issue when he was six months old. My pediatrician also told us he no longer needed to eat at night, and suggested phasing out the night feedings. I had a difficult time hearing him cry and not responding, but luckily my husband coached me through...

Babies wake for many reasons. Sometimes it's out of habit, sometimes it's because they haven't been taught how to fall asleep by themselves and need help at night when they wake up to fall back to sleep (they go down being fed, rocked, with a pacifier, etc), sometimes it's just because they are hungry...

My daughter is almost 8 months. Despite our pediatrician's insistence that she doesn't need to eat at night, the babe insists that yes...she does want to eat once, sometimes twice between 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM . We had to do sleep training at six months to get her to sleep at all in her crib. Putting her...

When I did this to my 3 year old daughter at 13 months old for a week she stopped meeting my eyes, she didn't smile anymore, she got down to about 7 or 8 hours sleep in any 24 hour period. If that isnt' damage I am not sure what is. This is why my naughty 13 month old son isn't going to get it, i am...

My daughter slept a good 5-7 hrs. from 1-month and any troubles we had later were quelched by little bit of modified cry-it-out with comforting. She then slept 12 hrs. and took a 3 hour nap for nearly 2 yrs (we were spoiled). Now she's 2 3/4 yrs old and our son is 8 mo. He's gone from being in a Pac...

I think this is an excellent question. I don't have an answer. I did find a position paper by the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health Inc., Affiliated with the World Association for Infant Mental Health at www.aaimhi.org that says as of 2004, "There have been no studies such as sleep laboratory...