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Screw the "experts"

gahorseygalgahorseygal member
in August 2014 Moms
Hey guys! Is been a while but hopefully some of you remember me. So after reading multiple books and blogs I've decided to say screw the experts! Seriously is more exhausting trying to follow a schedule or routine than it is to just patent
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  • becominggoldbecominggold member
    Yes, yes!
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  • gahorseygalgahorseygal member
    Sorry yall it posted twice. My phone was a bit glitchy.

    Meant to say parent not patent!
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  • LucyLorraiLucyLorrai member
    I totally agree with this. DH is insistent we do sleep training for DS because his sister did and she swears by it. Our parents did not do it and I think most of us are well adjusted adults. DS isn't four months yet so that is how I have been hedging the convo off with DH.
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  • gahorseygalgahorseygal member
    I hate that they call it training. Do what you have to do and what works. My LO fusses it out at nap time but only for 3 min or so. She slept in her swing for naps and I kept trying the crib once a day until she started napping well in there. At night I hold her and we watch a YouTube video of horses that plays a horse lullaby and then I just hold her until she is pretty much asleep. I used to hold her until she was completely out but she's getting good at putting herself to sleep.

    FYI she cried even when I held her to fall asleep. That's when I realized she just needs to cry to fall asleep. And it's a sleep cry, very different from when she needs something.

    Honestly we, the moms, are the experts on our own children. Until they go and change things up again ;)
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  • mindfulmama14mindfulmama14 member
    I agree with this philosophy on almost all parenting techniques. It's all case by case and different for each child.
    That being said, I do both for my LO at night. Sometimes he happens to fall asleep while eating & if he doesn't then I will lay him down with a soother projector. There's pros to both. I love having him fall asleep in my arms. And I also love being able to lay him down awake so I get started on getting things done around the house.
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  • Daisylola11Daisylola11 member
    Agreed, sometimes it's nice to read and get ideas to try but not everything works or it does in your own LOs specific way. It can get overwhelming to try to do it all the way the "experts" suggest now. I'm sticking to "if it works why change it just because the books say so". I understand later on there will be changes I will eventually have to do simply because DS is getting older.

    Also yes on the rocking to sleep, my wrists are killing me! I was hoping to get stronger as DS gains weight but doesn't seem like it haha
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  • cdsenocdseno member
    missmimsyy said:
    @hmctagg01‌ (no sarcasm here, for real) oh, you're under the impression that my baby naps! If I'm lucky I can get 2, maybe 3 naps out of her. I have a happy in public baby who is clingy and temperamental when it's just her parents. She's already figured out how to throw a tantrum. I'm talking arched back, arms and legs waving, screaming tantrums. At 4 months old.
    Do we have the same baby?  Today he napped long enough for H and I to have a quickie but that was all.  His naps seem to be getting shorter as he gets older.  And he is a complete a-hole at home with us. Screams all day long, but we go somewhere and he is all smiles.
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  • jaimee2003jaimee2003 member
    missmimsyy said:
    @hmctagg01‌ (no sarcasm here, for real) oh, you're under the impression that my baby naps! If I'm lucky I can get 2, maybe 3 naps out of her. I have a happy in public baby who is clingy and temperamental when it's just her parents. She's already figured out how to throw a tantrum. I'm talking arched back, arms and legs waving, screaming tantrums. At 4 months old.
    Ohh, the arched back!  The first time LO did this I was like, what the hell?!  Some Exorcist type stuff happening there...
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  • leanneriversleannerivers member
    Just tried drowsy but awake a couple of times and my LO showed me who's boss..... Now she has me rocking her to sleep and everytime I put her down she freaks out. =P~ Happy Friday!
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