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advice on CC please

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clairetb · 17/04/2007 21:20

just this evening my DH and I decided to give CC a chance, although I was totally against leaving my DD to cry for any length of time at all, but after 1 month of averaging 3 hours of broken sleep a night, having a constant cold, cold sores and mouth ulcers due to being run down by lack of sleep we decided to bite the bullet, we went to 11 minutes and she is still sound asleep, fingers crossed it continues throughout the night. Okay now that I have explained myself which I probably felt the need to do because of the guilt I'm feeling right now . I need some advise, during my DD's afternoon nap I normally take her to my bed and BF her to sleep, which I absolutely love doing, I love the closeness and know that I won't have this time with her for very long as she is growing up so quickly, but I wonder if I need to give this up now or am I sending her mixed messages if I continue, i.e it is ok to sleep on mommy's breast during the day nap, when it suits her but not at night when you want to most????

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booradley · 17/04/2007 21:34

Hi Clairetb .
I posted about cc a few months ago and got absolutely slaughtered for trying it so ignore any advice you disagree with.
You didn't say how old dd is?
My experience is that my dd was a nightmare on the first night {on and off for 10 mins at a time for hours but never getting distressed) but after that 1st night she was fine.
Even now she still cries when I put her in her cot to sleep (day nap or nighttime), but for me its about learning the type of cry. Its usually a "no, no I don't want to go to sleep . . . zzzzzzzzzzz!"
I never let her get worked up but if I go to her I won't take her out of the cot unless she's really got her nappy in a twist. That's only happened once in six months.

Its a difficult thing to decided to do and really difficult to follow thru if you start getting a hard time - but if you can stick to it it is wonderful. My dd often gets comments about how happy she is and when she wakes in the morning she generally just girgles to herself for a bit.
I can honestly say its one of the best things I did.

Rested baby + rested mummy = happy times for all

Hope this has been of use to you.

clairetb · 17/04/2007 21:53

Thanks for the warning booradley, tbh I don't really care I believe I'm doing the right thing for my daughter and that's all that matters to me, hopefully things work out for us as well as they did for you xx

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cruisemum1 · 18/04/2007 06:57

bumping so i can find you later.

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