"Slide thru it's lit"/TMI Tuesday

[holliberry28]

After sharing this embarrassing picture of my adventure in sleep training, my 18 year old nephew shared sleep advice from his favorite rapper. Let's just say I think he summed up all those shit books quite effectively and hysterically. Or I'm just a sleep deprived zombie.

My TMI sleep book neuroses:


www.vice.com/read/babies-stay-woke-183

^^read the article, it's super funny. And if it's not, TMI away. Or yell at me for wasting a thread.

[Bluedaisy]

holliberry28, A friend swore by happiest baby on the block. I think it has some good tips for very young babies but wasn't a whole lot of help to me....my baby hated being swaddled.

[holliberry28]

Dec 15, 2015 20:16:51 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

holliberry28, A friend swore by happiest baby on the block. I think it has some good tips for very young babies but wasn't a whole lot of help to me....my baby hated being swaddled.

His 5 S's helped us get through M's really bad colic, but after 8 weeks, he refused to be swaddled any more.

Feel bad starting this thread! It was meant to be funny lol.

[erbear]

Happiest baby worked well when she was young! The happy sleeper was recommended to me.

[holliberry28]

Dec 15, 2015 20:23:47 GMT -5 erbear said:

Happiest baby worked well when she was young! The happy sleeper was recommended to me.

The happy sleeper is one of my favorites from all of them. Easy to read, but involves some sleep training.

[erbear]

Dec 15, 2015 20:38:21 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

Dec 15, 2015 20:23:47 GMT -5 erbear said:

Happiest baby worked well when she was young! The happy sleeper was recommended to me.

The happy sleeper is one of my favorites from all of them. Easy to read, but involves some sleep training.

Is it CIO? We're okay with sleep training but not CIO.

[holliberry28]

Dec 15, 2015 21:47:13 GMT -5 erbear said:

Dec 15, 2015 20:38:21 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

The happy sleeper is one of my favorites from all of them. Easy to read, but involves some sleep training.

Is it CIO? We're okay with sleep training but not CIO.

She calls it the sleep wave, and recommends 5 minute checks consistently (in contrast to Ferber's gradual increasing the time intervals). She only recommends it after 5 months and talks about soothing and other sleep helping tips for babies before 5 months. But yea, there is some crying involved.

[baytosa2013]

Looking at all of those books gives me anxiety! I have read nothing on nothing except for my pregnancy book. I get too overwhelmed with all the opinions and end up in a worse spot than when I started :/

[holliberry28]

baytosa2013, I read them all and not that much better off! Haha.

Just read the link if you read anything, it was really funny