"Sleep experts"

[meow]

I just looked her up and these comments send off alarm bells for me. Pinky wont try and make you fearful of never getting a good nights sleep!

Did you know that it can take as little as only 10 minutes for a baby to gently learn positive sleeping habits?

And did you know that you may actually be the cause of your baby waking up several times every night?

And that a baby who is not taught good sleeping habits could still be waking you up every night at the age of six?

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Wow Ren, yup, I'd be steering clear too!

[christy]

oh dear... Matilda had awful sleeping habits, for 3 years and is now sleeping through the night finally but she's only 4!!! Obviously I wasn't bad enough :P

[suziette]

Yeah well, I guess I knew. I did kind of think 'huh??' at the 10 minutes to learn positive sleep habits. But I also then worried I was causing her bad sleep and that she would then be 6 and still sleeping badly (yikes). At the back of my mind is that thing about getting enough sleep for development...
We'll just persevere

[Charlyfrog]

Not into fear mungering myself........... its all perspective and personal experience coupled with personal opinions re: sleep......

I am one to read:

Did you know that it can take as little as only 10 minutes for a baby to gently learn positive sleeping habits?

And did you know that you may actually be the cause of your baby waking up several times every night?

And that a baby who is not taught good sleeping habits could still be waking you up every night at the age of six?

and completely agree with this pov. My girls slept through by a couple of months and unless sick, pretty much we have had all night sleepers. And no none of this 'luck with getting good kids'......won't go there (another thread covers this ). I put it down to deciding how we were going to handle sleep and then following through with persistence and consistency.

I think its necessary to read up on everything across the board......not just one sided and all the negative views on the other side iykwim? Get the positive on both sides as rest assured, both sides have their negative opinions of the other.

[suziette]

That's great charlyfrog, that what you decided to do worked for you. Its a matter of finding what that is I think. I have tried various things. And my little one did sleep through from 8 weeks until we went on holidays when she was 4 months. Even after that (when we got home), she 'slept through', just woke up a bit earlier than before. Over the months though, its gone more and more down hill. And she can self settle, she does it sometimes during the night, just not all the time.
I think we'll just persevere with what we're currently doing and see what happens

[meow]

Just wanted to explain why these comments bothered me...

Did you know that it can take as little as only 10 minutes for a baby to gently learn positive sleeping habits?

I think this is an odd promise as it implies that the suggestion is going to be a 'one size fits all' remedy expected to work on every child. I feel that anyone who would suggest something like that either doesn't really understand children or is not actually interested in helping you, but rather making money from their false promises.

And did you know that you may actually be the cause of your baby waking up several times every night?

This just reminds me of those 'sleeping with your baby will be the end of all sleep' type of comments- it makes parents feel they are failing terribly. Not a nice thing to throw into your marketing at sleep deprived parents IMO.

And that a baby who is not taught good sleeping habits could still be waking you up every night at the age of six?

I guess similar to the last comment... they could and they could not. Why try and strike fear into people?

All the best suziette- hope you get some sleep soon (and me! )