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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 3423782" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>hate to break it to you, but just when you think he 'gets it', it will change again. And again, and again. </p><p></p><p>As others have said, letting him learn to self-sooth is important. We were given one of those creepy video monitors and didn't really use it much, but we did eventually realize that it had a benefit. We'd turn the volume off, so if our son was crying enough to be heard from the other room, it'd wake us up, but we couldn't hear him every time he turned over. If he was crying we'd turn on the video and could see if he was up and awake, rolling around, settling back down, etc. and that gave us the ability to judge if we needed to actually go in and see him or not. Overcoming the 'but what if something is really wrong' is the hardest part, really. </p><p></p><p>But again, it will change again and again. Our son was a great sleeper for a long time, then would decide someone needed to be in the room with him and would wake us up multiple times a night. Now we are in a cycle where he wakes up at 4 am and is just awake. It wouldn't be too big a deal if he didn't feel the need to wake me up to tell me and ask be questions like 'have you seen my lego monster truck'...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 3423782, member: 277"] hate to break it to you, but just when you think he 'gets it', it will change again. And again, and again. As others have said, letting him learn to self-sooth is important. We were given one of those creepy video monitors and didn't really use it much, but we did eventually realize that it had a benefit. We'd turn the volume off, so if our son was crying enough to be heard from the other room, it'd wake us up, but we couldn't hear him every time he turned over. If he was crying we'd turn on the video and could see if he was up and awake, rolling around, settling back down, etc. and that gave us the ability to judge if we needed to actually go in and see him or not. Overcoming the 'but what if something is really wrong' is the hardest part, really. But again, it will change again and again. Our son was a great sleeper for a long time, then would decide someone needed to be in the room with him and would wake us up multiple times a night. Now we are in a cycle where he wakes up at 4 am and is just awake. It wouldn't be too big a deal if he didn't feel the need to wake me up to tell me and ask be questions like 'have you seen my lego monster truck'... [/QUOTE]
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