Could modern approaches to baby’s sleep be linked to future mental illness?

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I have just had a horrrendous weekend with my son’s six week old baby. During the day whenever she was restless from obvious tiredness they just jigged her about instead of just putting her down to sleep.

She thus dosed for only short periods and both parents were perpetually exhausted. It got me thinking. In my day after breakfast and walk my baby had been put into his cot in a quiet room where he slept f

It’s possible the MIL really does mean jiggle about - I saw a lovely couple on a bus last week with a newish baby who was, in my eyes, obviously knackered. They kept dancing him around and singing “the wheels on the bus” to him to try to stop him crying - his eyes were dropping and everything, and he had that hoarse cry... All new parents learn. And that’s not “modern”, I’m sure it’s always been thus. As has taking advice from your MIL!

@EdgeOf17 ... I was agreeing with your comment about OP giving her son and daughter in law 'words of encouragement'

If they kept the baby with them, they did the right thing.

@spugzbunny ah right gotcha 👍

You sound like a typical over involved pain in the backside mil

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