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@j010203t Not in the US. A pediatrician checked my baby at home after my homebirth. She came to our home, saw the sidecar crib being used as a giant nightstand, and laughed "I see we all use it the same way!"

@greaterthanorequalto Yes it sounds like that 😅 I think it's good to establish sleep habits that follow the child. It's very different from a one-size-fits-all sleep training method that prescribes standard intervals, scripted responses etc. - not all children are the same.

@greaterthanorequalto No, that's not CIO. That's a delayed response. Not everyone's preference - nothing will work for everyone, it's normal - but an entirely different approach than total extinction (CIO) / graduated extinction (Ferber). With extinction based methods, the aim is to stop...

@godshapedhole Yes, I think the reason is many parents feel they can't get anything done with the baby in tow. And for many it's true! Babies are gonna baby. Personally, I don't think the solution is obsessing over a 2.5. vs 2.75 hour wake window and having to put baby down in a pitch dark room...

@carissalysta Exactly. We don't tell adults "at your age, you should be going 12 hours straight with no food, drink or human interaction."

@neobondjames To me it's not even about long term consequences to be honest. (The evidence is thin and contradictive on whether exctintion-based sleep training works and whether it has long term consequences) but... for Heaven's sake this is a tiny human scared and cying for the people who...

@foreverrevealtruth Ironically, children often throw up from too much crying with CIO and Ferber. Clean them up as quickly as you can and lay them back in their crib with no comforting, says the book... they can't expect to be comforted just because they're throwing up from crying, that would...

@leonard_eccentric Future nostalgia. Oh. I'm crying.

(Vent.) I'm going through a rough patch with my daughter's sleep. I briefly mentioned it at a parents' group and a dad lectured me about good ol' CIO and how he trained his kids to sleep 7-7 and 2x 2 hour naps a day. Just close the door and don't go in until the time is up. It's that easy...

@confusedbuthopeful Wait until the snoring wakes up the baby... I got THIS CLOSE to being a widow.