This is a weird one and you might want to skip it if you have a bad sleeper.....
I'm sure it's motivated by social media - I have a newborn (DC2) so am bombarded by parenting accounts and posts. So many of them are talking about how constant night wakings are developmentally appropriate and how co-sleeping is the natural norm. So many comments slating sleep training with the dominant narrative being 'they are waking, they just know not to bother crying for you'.
Both my children slept through before 4 months. I have never, ever left them to cry (I've left them to sing and babble a bit) and I'm pretty strict on daytime nap routine/wake windows. So whilst they've been in a routine, they've never needed 'sleep training'. They were big so loads of night feedings not necessary quite early.
I've developed this fear that because they preferred to sleep independently from me - in the cot - they're either badly attached to me (I must be intrinsically cold so they don't bother shouting for me!) or developmentally abnormal. Both are happy and healthy and actually quite clingy in the day (want me, nobody else). Anyone else have this weird fear?
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Weird sleep guilt - good sleeper
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Weirdguilt · 21/03/2024 20:33
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23/03/2024 15:22
Weirdguilt · 21/03/2024 20:48
I cannot cope either, maybe they just know that?! (Rather than me just being a cold, unfeeling monster?!)
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