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Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children by watertom on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @11:57AM (#26252236)
3 children, we only slept them in their rooms, starting day 10. Naps, day sleep, everything, they slept in their room and in their crib. The room was light controlled, meaning there was no light at all. They quickly associated any sleep with their room and their crib.

We used a baby motion sleep mat for peace of mind for SIDS, the thing was so sensitive it could detect the breathing, but if the baby moved off the mat even a little bit it sounded an alarm.

Unless a baby has colic, and we used baby dophilus for all our children to avoid any stomach or intestine issues, new babies aren't very fussy sleepers. The fussy sleeping usually happens when they get older, but by then they were accustomed to sleeping in their crib.

We never once had a crying fit, we also never forced them to sleep, sometimes, just like adults they aren't ready for sleep, those moments were few and far between and we just surfed through those times.

By 6 months all 3 children were sleeping through the nigh.

Every soon to be new parent we coached on this method had the same success, probably 40+ babies.

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Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children by choeger on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:49PM (#26255652)
That begs the question: How did you feed the little ones? Having a baby in its own room from day 10 implies a very high effort feeding schedule, no?
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Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children by anw on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:41PM (#26252944)
If you don't mind, which motion-detecting sleep mat did you wind up going with?
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Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children by brianwawok on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:09PM (#26253344)
Not OP, but we used a competing product, which is

https://owletcare.com/

It is a foot attachment that basically watches heart rate and oxygen level all night, and freaks out if something is wrong.

Only a very few accidental freakouts (like kicked off foot), but gave a lot of peace of mind. Not cheap but seems pretty solid engineering wise.

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Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children by tobib on Thursday February 25, 2021 @12:03AM (#26259893)
Did you make up you own process or did you follow a certain technique? Could you share a few details?
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