More Sleep training : Rocket science to follow
posted on: 08:01 PM October 18, 2007
Sleep training at night has worked out pretty well (knock wood). It's now rare for the boys to cry rather than not to cry. Last week, I took some time off work to help my wife with sleep training during the day.
How'd it go? Sometimes ok, sometimes very bad. A-star and B-boy had to be rescued on a couple of occasions. It certainly was not the rousing success stories you read about in the baby care books.
One popular book claims that if you time your baby's naps properly, they don't cry. Personally, I think that window of opportunity is so small, the only thing I could compare it to is the difference in time between the gold and silver medals in a luge competition.
Then again, maybe my definition of crying is too broad. I consider short bursts of sobbing to be crying, but maybe it isn't. Maybe the books only consider loud, uncontrolled wailing, to be crying.
Don't get me wrong, A-star and B-boy do both.