Actually, I love Dr. Sears too! His information about high-needs and reflux babies was so helpful with my first child. I'm just ignoring his statements that crying will horribly damage my second child.

If we go in to LC or give her any sort of stimulation she will wake up every 30 minutes or not sleep AT ALL--leading to MORE crying. So you can see our predicament? If we allow her to work it out off and on for an hour she gets 10 hours of sleep. If we respond she cries in total more than an hour and gets little or no sleep.

Before the sleep training LC was so sleep-deprived that she was in a constant aggitated, wired state. Now she wakes up squealing and giggling and full of energy. smile The psychologist said that in the context of a loving environment like LC has (she pretty much does ZERO crying during the day), a little bit of crying at night can be "optimal" for her development.


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