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- Started 10 years ago
- Last post 10 years ago
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- mg333
Our daughter Hannah just turned 7 months old this week. There's one piece of advice I can give you that will matter more than anything, trust me.
As you're dealing with crying while trying to get your child to fall asleep, it gets really frustrating. It's easy to lose patience. I had a bad problem with it and it was stressful.
So, I started loosely timing how long it took her to fall asleep, through the full cycle of sitting down to get her sleepy, the crying, and then being fully asleep. It averaged out to about 8 - 10 minutes.
After that, I got used to the time it took, and when at like 5, 6 minutes of wailing, I knew the end was near, and it seriously cut down on ability to get stressed out. Much easier to fight through it and not get frustrated. Seriously, DO THIS.
- 8-10 minutes?! I don't want to hear about this stressing you out! :)nocomply
- Nah, the stressful part was the first few times not knowing how long it would take.mg33
- this idea sounds very helpfulsarahfailin