Control crying effects

[Monnie]

Can it damage your baby's vocal chords?

Am trying to wean DS of the dummy for the past 3 nights by using a bit of Ferber.

Tx

Not that I've ever noticed with ds! We used controlled crying for bedtime when he was about 6 months old. He's now 22 months and as loud as ever! (Plus he goes to bed with no problem at all!)

No - just your eardrums and sanity

I'm about to start the controlled crying routine myself. For the past month every morning before its even light my ds wakes up crying to sleep in our bed. I dont even think hes barely awake. I only did it a couple days in a row now I found myself automatically doing it every morning so hell stay asleep several more hours. He takes up so much of my side that I rolled over one night and fell off the bed. Our bed is one of those really high off the floor beds. I almost broke my neck. I know hell probally be crying when I dont get him and put him in the bed tonight but hes 22 mo and I cant stand the thought of him sleeping with my dh and me any longer. Hes a complete bed hogger.

We used controlled crying with ds when he was 13 months. It took 3 weeks but we have never had any bedtime problems since. As to damaging his vocal chords, he spoke quite early (40 words at 15 months) and I am happy to report that at nearly 5 years old his vocal chords seem as strong as ever, if his noise level is anything to go by .

Thanks for all the responses.

DS is 13 months old and CC seems to have worked. It's just that he seems to wake up a little croaky in the morning afterwards.

However, maybe he's taking after me. I've got a voice a bit like Mariella Frostrop, so it's all my own doing!

Monnie why are you trying to wean him off a dummy at such a young age?

Why not wean off a dummy?

Not sure the cc will damage vocal chords but he might not be very happy about it all.

I'm not suggesting you shouldn't wean children off dummies, just wondered why now, and why dummy was given in 1st place if only to be taken away at such a young age.

I must admit I wondered the same as bundle!

Basically, DS was fine for the first six months of his life to fall asleep.

Then I went back to work and my mum looked after him.

She started giving him dummies as he would not settle at her place easily.

This set a pattern of needing it to fall asleep all the time. Foolishly (perhaps) DH and I continued the pattern until we started to get a lot of broken sleep because it fell out of his mouth.

Hence, the weaning off....so we can sleep at night, which has worked!

So, I don't have anything against dummy use...only lack of sleep (lol)

My ds puts his own dummy in during the night if he wakes. It's on a clip attached to his sleeping bag. He sleeps from 7is until past 7 every night, and never disturbs us! It made life a LOT easier. We taught him to put it in himself and it was easy.

Aloha

I'm glad that has worked for you.

I'm saying in our case we did not want him to have the dummy any longer as he could not put it back in at night.

Like I said before, I'm not saying 'Don't use a dummy', I'm making the decision that is best for my family.

Plus, I was only enquiring about the effects of CC, not the merits of dummy use.