Ezz - I have occasionally come across some pretty useless advice on the helpline, but the nurse we've been seeing at the Tresillian centre here is wonderful, fully promotes gentle settling techniques and actually bags out some of her colleagues who are a bit old school and still promote cc because they're not supposed to anymore! She was actually talking to me about the need for them to mainstream their policies and practices etc so that there wasn't so much conflicting advice. All of the nurses at our day stay seemed to be very focused on the psychological impact on the babies (and the poor mums!) and promoted gentle settling. It's a shame not all of them are the same.
The other thing I wanted to add was that I was told that you probably won't see much of an improvement in his ability to move from one sleep cycle to the next (ie sleep longer than 45mins without resettling) till about the 12-14 week mark. Developmentally they are much more able to grasp the concept of resettling at this age. I have a friend with 4 babies (x2 twins) and we've found this to be true with all 6 of our kids! They were all 45 min wonders. After weeks of resettling and me being really consistent with settling techniques, DS is now often able to resettle himself and will sleep for 1.5-2hrs at a time without a peep.
Keep up the good work, it is so hard and I've definitely had days/weeks where I've struggled with it and there's been lots of tears (from me, not him) but it's so worth it when you reap the rewards!
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