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I have completed HR discussion round they were asking about my LWD..I said it is officially 90 days.. so should I discuss with my present company manager about LWD before or after getting offer letter
PS: I will be released early as I am sitting idle in the project..one guy in the project got early release.
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They are only babies for a short time. Let your wife mom the way she wants.
My kids still sleep in our bed. After traveling for the week, I really don’t mind. Only going to get snuggles for so long
Don’t make kids cry or force them. I find it so unhuman
Talk to your doc. I’m pretty sure my doc said that at this age they should be able to make it through the night without eating.
Here’s the problem. Often with night training, the dad needs to do it because that baby is smart and knows mommy has milk. I’ve (dad) had to be the main one to night ween my kids. Start by reducing the amount in a bottle, the just pick them up, give them a binkie, rock a bit and put back down. Get ready for them to cry a bit. It’s not fun. Especially if you have another kid and they wake THEM up crying.
Also, by this time both my kids were in their own room. Not in ours.
Our daughter still sleeps in our bed at 19 months, she quit breastfeeding on her own at around 14 months and since then sleeps through the night. We never forced her to do anything, just went with her rhythm. They are only little for a short time and we never minded her being in our bed or her waking up until 14 months old for feeding, but she was always easy, didn’t wake up often and both I (female sneaking into the dad’s bowl 😉) and daughter fell back asleep quickly, feeding happened in the dark in the bed.
We never had the kids in our room, but we have a nursery right off of the master so our babies were always very close. All were sleep trained by 4 months using weisbluth method (letting them cry it out and increasing the amount of time between checking on them). Once they are double their birth weight they really should be sleeping through the night. It is brutal, but only takes a couple days per kid.
6 months is honestly on the later end of this timeframe and you should get started right away. Once they start teething and start to realize they can manipulate your behaviors, it becomes more difficult
I have some amazing memories of waking up with my kids during those early months and sitting with them on the rocking chair, but I remember that being a very tough time. Post sleep training is a very special time :)
We have had friends and neighbors go with the “baby knows best” method and it has resulted in pretty catastrophic outcomes. Like the kid(s) sleeping in the master bed for years, parents not sleeping in the same bed so one can get sleep, kids staying up until all hours or waking up at 4am when they are toddlers, kids not getting enough sleep so they can’t function in early years school, parents not getting enough sleep or alone time or sexy time. Marriages getting weaker, even a couple marriages failing due in some part to this stress. Think about it. If you have 2-3 kids and each takes say 2-3+ years to get them properly sleeping through the night. That’s a huge chunk of your life.
There is also a ton of research about sleep being very good for your babies. That is when the brain does a lot of it’s development, etc. Tons of books and articles about this.
Our kids are now 6, 8, and 10 and they still have great sleep habits. They know the importance of sleep but can flex as needed if we have a sleep over or later party, flight, etc. They actually like to go to sleep and like to wake up at the proper time and get ready for school or whatever we are doing. I think a lot of this has to do with the sleep training early. Hope it will carry with them through high school any beyond!
Good luck!
6 months? Waking up once or twice normal to feed is normal. Wouldn’t do food on bed though. Breastfeed or bottle then straight back down
My wife and I did the extinction method of just letting our little guy cry it out pretty early on. Heartbreaking initially, but it worked really well. We found the book “Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child” to be extremely helpful.
The Baby Sleep Solution by Suzy Giordano. We used it with our twins and it was a life-saver. They were sleeping 12 hrs/night by 12 weeks.
Ask your doctor. At eight months our doctor told me 'its no one's fault but yours.' Not helpful. but we started that night. For three weeks we dragged out mattress to the other end of the house so we couldn't hear him. Problem solved.
FYI, if you woke up at 2:00 am and had a sandwich, your body would learn to wake up at 2:00 am, expecting to be fed.
Baby slept through the night at 6 weeks using On Becoming Babywise. Buy the book. Get some sleep.
B1 is right. On the feeding in bed thing... recognize that this little window in life will be in your wife’s memory for the rest of her life. It will be remembered as one of the most amazing experiences she ever had (even if it feels nothing like that right now). Go with it.
Appreciate the tips. Wife breastfeeds her in bed, brings her back to crib, and so on. But after she’s woken up a third or fourth time wife’s so exhausted baby just sleeps in bed with us til 7am. I’d really like to get her sleeping through the night in her crib but maybe that’s wishful thinking and I need to be more patient
Ask yourself what do you really gain by them sleeping in a crib or room away from you
Both my kids slept in THEIR bedroom at 10 days-old. I honestly don’t understand the pros of keeping the kids in parents bed, except for parents comfort
Book 12 Hours by 12 Weeks
Worked for us and all our friends.