What do you do when the baby wakes up every half hour—for seven hours?
Dude Dad Taylor Calmus literally burns and throws away the book on Sleep Training—and then passes out from sleep deprivation.
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The reason it’s so difficult is because it isn’t natural to separate from our babies the way our culture expects us to.Humans are meant to sleep with our young children until they they are ready to sleep on their own. American culture, Western culture is just wrong. Humans are meant to live much differently than we are made to function in a debt-based economy, which makes slaves of all but the top 2%. The reason our society is so unhealthy, emotionally, begins with the way we are parented. When our most basic security needs are not met by our caregivers… Read more »
Sleep training (or attempting it) was miserable for us. Turning point came when our little dude got sick. Think he was just so worn out and felt so lousy that all he wanted to do was sleep. Since then, drop him in the crib and say goodnight, out he goes. We got lucky. And now I’m just waiting for a sleep regression or something.