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@dianes I had a lactation consultant who was also an MD for a while and she was lovely. When I decided to stop trying to BF she was so supportive. But she had a poster about safe co-sleeping and she was like "this says breastfeeding exclusively but you can ignore that. It's much more important...

@mike_l I read an article by La Leche League that pissed me off so much. It was all about how it is only safe to co sleep when breastfeeding, and they had this whole section on the fact that you'll only do the proper C shape with your body if you're breastfeeding, and your baby will only want to...

@albinoguitman Yes, true

@deavallsbabe I will say though... My mental health TANKED after having my LO and there were a couple times I had to put him down and let him cry for like 5, 10 minutes so I could regroup. He was a very screamy newborn. But I don't know if that's CIO. I didn't go longer than ten minutes...

@toba4christ I think it's more propaganda from breastfeeding Nazis. Sorry, but I had such a bad experience with breastfeeding groups that it left such a horrible taste in my mouth. Also, there haven't been any good studies done on baby sleep because it's extremely difficult to do a good study on...

@cupoftea I'm with you. We eventually got lucky with our LO but at first I was reading a lot of sleep blogs and going nuts. So much contradictory advice and so much that felt wrong in my gut. It's very similar to life coaching - unregulated, they can say whatever they want and charge what they...

@iaian I've been looking into this as well. Baby Sleep Science is a great website that lists its sources. Here is their article on the 4 month sleep regression. It doesn't "help" a ton but explains the science behind the "regression" and gives some ideas.

@jeaninmt 22!!! It's going to be 4 here today