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Posted by Lola on February 12, 2002 at 13:58:48:In Reply to: Weissbluth? posted by Evie on February 12, 2002 at 09:12:17:
Hi Evie,
I have Weissbluth's book and I think part of his philosophy for 4 mo and beyond is putting themselves to sleep, and early bedtimes. Those were, I guess, mostly what I got out of his book. He's a huge proponent of babies getting enough daytime sleep because he says that daytime sleep interruptions or lack of it can affect night time sleep, but it sounds like you have great day time sleep now that she's on her tummy. He thinks that most babies should have bedtimes around 7 or 8, and that sometimes night waking is due to having too late of a bedtime. I think he suggests trying to adjust the bedtime by 15 min increments until you get to the desired time in which your child has the least amount of night wakings. He says you can even put your child to sleep at 6:45, and sometimes that will help night wakings. He also says that waking up up to 2 x's per night is acceptable though until, I think, 9 mo, although I think most babies really don't NEED to after 6 mo. So, I think getting up with her at night is just your decision. If it's something you don't want to do anymore then you can decide how best you'd like to handle it, but he doesn't say anything, that I can remember, about not feeding at night or anything. One other thing he does say is that after 4 mo, babies can start regulating their daytime sleep because their brains are mature enough, so he says to look out for obvious patterns of sleep because pretty soon you can go by the clock to decide when to put them down for naps, etc. because it will be more consistent each day, as opposed to when they're younger and they just need to sleep whenever, whether it's been 45 min or 2 hours. I think that it takes a few months to establish those patterns though, and of course every baby will be different. Maybe someone else got other ideas out of his book, but those are the major ones I can remember. I thought it gave me some good insight into infant sleep patterns, but again, it's one of those things where you need to take from it what you feel comfortable with and what can apply to your child.
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