Please tell me if you feel the same way! Every time I ask the clinic sister or my own family doctor how I can get my 17 month daughter to sleep through I get told to just leave her to cry or do controlled crying. I don't believe in this method as it is against our "Motherly Instincts". Hannah goes to bed with no tears at 7pm but wakes up 1-2 times during the night for some milk and just sometimes a cuddle. Then she is up at 6am as happy as. She has slept through twice in her young life and I have tried to replicate those days - to no avail. I now believe that she will sleep through when she is ready and feels confident to do so. I believe the Nurses and Doctors need to do a course in modern parenting as I now believe in listening to my instincts and never to doubt them again.
I have stopped worrying about teeth (she has all of them), sleeping, eating (I still feed her only lumpy food as she hates chewing) and remind myself that as she gets older she will do the things she is suppose to do without me forcing her to.
Do any of you Mum's out there feel the same or do you have great Nurses and Doctors in your area?
Let me know what you think.
I have stopped worrying about teeth (she has all of them), sleeping, eating (I still feed her only lumpy food as she hates chewing) and remind myself that as she gets older she will do the things she is suppose to do without me forcing her to.
Do any of you Mum's out there feel the same or do you have great Nurses and Doctors in your area?
Let me know what you think.
Tarryn, Country QLD, 11/06/03 Hannah