Hello Dr. Nate Watson, my wife and I feel like we needed something like this and I woke up early on Australia's east coast to participate, thank you.
Our two year old has always had difficulty sleeping, and has not once slept the whole night. We were able to have intensive sleep training through Tresillian at 1 year, and reduce his wake ups to twice or once per night. Since his sibling was born 10 weeks ago, however, the situation has deteriorated and he is waking five or six times a night, bellowing for his mother and he will not self-soothe or settle on his own. Between breast-feeding our infant and tending to our toddler, we are both having to get up at least four to five times a night each.
Possibly relevant: I am a rotating shift worker (4 on, 4 off) and my wife takes the children to her parent's house when I am working my shifts. My mother-in-law has always coddled my toddler to sleep. He also receives constant stimulation (large Italian family with other babies, television always on, very long dinner periods, etc).
My wife is insistent on sleep training, but we don't have enough consistency in our own lives to create a daily routine.
Our infant also shows signs of needing significantly less sleep than would be typical, and we're concerned that we may go slightly mad during these formative years. Would you have any cursory advice for us please?
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Hello Dr. Nate Watson, my wife and I feel like we needed something like this and I woke up early on Australia's east coast to participate, thank you.
Our two year old has always had difficulty sleeping, and has not once slept the whole night. We were able to have intensive sleep training through Tresillian at 1 year, and reduce his wake ups to twice or once per night. Since his sibling was born 10 weeks ago, however, the situation has deteriorated and he is waking five or six times a night, bellowing for his mother and he will not self-soothe or settle on his own. Between breast-feeding our infant and tending to our toddler, we are both having to get up at least four to five times a night each.
Possibly relevant: I am a rotating shift worker (4 on, 4 off) and my wife takes the children to her parent's house when I am working my shifts. My mother-in-law has always coddled my toddler to sleep. He also receives constant stimulation (large Italian family with other babies, television always on, very long dinner periods, etc).
My wife is insistent on sleep training, but we don't have enough consistency in our own lives to create a daily routine.
Our infant also shows signs of needing significantly less sleep than would be typical, and we're concerned that we may go slightly mad during these formative years. Would you have any cursory advice for us please?
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