We started the hard-core sleep training from Day One. It didn't work. I keep saying I'm going to do the thing where I sit closer and closer to the door every night, and then outside the door, but have yet to implement it. I'm not sure it would work, as Mal's an insomniac extrovert.

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Two possibly more helpful comments: Earplugs. Seriously. The foam ones that come in a jar at the drugstore. You'll still be able to hear him, but they remove the alligator-brain-triggering harmonics.

Also, if you can develop a couple mechanism for letting him scream/cry now, it will come in handy when he's 2/3.

Good luck. May the Force be With You.

prepares Fernet for Jessica

My mom always swore by a red wine/breastfeeding combo, but I'm thinking that's not what you're looking for.

prepares Fernet for Jessica

Prepares Fernet for Dylan

What?! You want him to go to sleep, right?

I can't imagine Dylan drinking Fernet (it's hard for me to imagine anyone drinking it, but I can understand an adult drinking it more easily than a child). It you're going to go that route, perhaps amaretto mixed in with milk - warm milk, which is supposed to induce sleep anyway.

My mom always swore by a red wine/breastfeeding combo, but I'm thinking that's not what you're looking for.

Heh - that would work except that he self-weaned about 6 weeks ago. Ah well, more wine for me!

Though I wouldn't turn down a Fernet either...

Prepares Fernet for Dylan

No drugging the baby! (I've been wistfully saying "Can't we just give him some Benedryl?" since the 8-9-10 month sleep regression began. It was funnier 2 months ago...)

Two possibly more helpful comments: Earplugs. Seriously. The foam ones that come in a jar at the drugstore. You'll still be able to hear him, but they remove the alligator-brain-triggering harmonics.

Hah! My friends who are parents of an almost 2-year old gave our friends who our expecting their first in a couple weeks His and Her earplugs as a shower present.

Good luck with the sleep training, Jessica!

No drugging the baby!

Oh. Uh. Oh.

Is that...a law...?

(Actually, we did give Em some Benadryl for a plane trip a couple times. First time: Worked like a charm; little baby, out like a light.

Second time: Paradoxical reaction. Little baby, crazy like a monkey on meth.)

Is that...a law...?

More of a guideline, really.

More of a guideline, really.

Sometimes you gotta look at the big picture. Like the likelihood of your brain exploding if you don't get some sleep for three nights in a row.