farmgirl: i can understand the sleep deprivation part. but you'd think an 'expert' would know that a child screaming for 7 hours would = possable averion to sleeping in the cot?

i was thinking about this some more and i remembered when my MG used to meet and one of the mums did the whole "sleep school" thing as her DS wasnt sleeping "twelve hours strait" as 7 months and she said she WATCHED a little girl get put down, then this little girl got so upset she threw up and the nurse came and changed her sheets and put her back down. now repeat twice more before the little girl 'went to sleep' this little girl would have been 18months old... for me i find that people around my age dont seem to understand that its 'normal' for babies not to sleep though (EG 12 hrs) until after a year old. and even then its a stretch. i know my next bubba will be treated as DJ was (and still is!) with sleep. if it happens it happens if it doesn't it doesn't. or if its co-sleeping with the whole family so be it. they're only little for so long before they want to go to bed on their own...