My Nightmare With A Crying Baby
Author: Liz | Filed under: Baby/Toddler Sleep | No Comments »
I’m a mom to a three-and-a-half year old son. These days, whenever I see a mother with a baby, I will often wonder if the mother has the same nightmare that I had with sleepness nights daily.
You see, I remember the excitement of being a new parent when I brought my baby home from the hospital. I was really happy and he was such a good baby, with hardly any sleeping problems.
NIGHTMARE BEGAN
Then, four months later, my nightmare started. All of a sudden, his habits changed and he was waking up every hour through out the night. Sometimes, instead of one hour or so, he will start screaming after 20 minutes of me putting him down in his crib.
This happened nightly until I was reduced to a walking zombie during the day with severe lack of sleep. My husband was also traveling much for work then that I practically had no one to help me out. Come on, how long can you last without proper sleep, right?
I WANT SOLUTIONS!!
Knowing that I will be a nervous wreck if I can’t solve my baby’s sleeping problem, I sought advice from relatives and friends. And what did I get? Contrasting opinions and lots and lots of sympathies BUT no actual solution. My baby was still crying and not sleeping through the night. And I was getting increasingly irritated that at times, I found myself screaming back at my crying baby.
Desperate for answers, I turned to the web and read contrasting views on the no-crying solution as well as the cry-it-out method. The proponents of no-crying would always be critical of the cry-it-out method and vice-versa.
NO CRYING OR LET HIM CRY IT OUT??
Some would swear by the effectiveness of letting their babies cry it out for peaceful night sleep thereafter while others think a gentle no crying solution is the best way to deal with the problem.
So, who do I follow? What should be the solution? If you are a new mother like me, I’m sure you too would be confused with all these so-called expert opinions. What happens if you let your baby cry it out and it doesn’t work after three or even seven nights? Will you still let him cry himself to sleep everyday?
Or what happens if you follow the no-crying solution but you can’t seem to get the sleep that you desperately need now because the improvements are too slow or vague? Do you continue on as advised when you are already on the verge of a breakdown??
WHO SAYS ONE METHOD IS SUPERIOR THAN THE OTHER?
Fed-up with different expert views on the subject, I finally found The Baby Sleep Solution after hours of surfing the net in the middle of the night (with my baby in my arms). What attracted me was that the author stated that no two babies are the same.
Why buy one book that espoused only one method and then buy another book that describes another method when the first doesn’t work on your baby? How many sleeping solutions can you afford to, not only buy, but also spend the time to read, right? That was what went through my mind when I was looking through the resources to desperately solve my son’s sleeping problem.
So, I thought why not get something that explains the various ways to get my baby to sleep soundly at night and see what best suits him. And this is what I found extremely useful with The Baby Sleep Solution. Needless to say I bought it, downloaded the audio/transcript and listened to it while holding my baby at night.
My only complaint about the product is that it gives the impression that you will know how to make your baby sleep soundly at night in a short 35 minutes. But I doubt anyone can, though. For me, I needed to go through it throroughly and pick out those ways (there are quite a few) that I think would suit my baby’s temperament.
NO REGRETS
Anyway, I absolutely have no regrets purchasing The Baby Sleep Solution. Not only it helped me through one of my worst nightmares in my life but it has also been a good resource to refer to whenever my son backslides on his sleeping progress, even when he was well into his toddler years.
So, if you are experiencing that same problem that I had and is searching for a way to have some sleep at night, get The Baby Sleep Solution fast. Then you will be on your way to become a loving mother with less irritation, all because you got much needed sleep at night!!
