In case you think only moms with postpartum depression have babies who don’t sleep, it was my PPD baby who actually slept like a champ. My second child, with whom I DID NOT have postpartum depression, didn’t sleep through the night until she was 11 months old.
I did an interview with ABC News last week about what it’s like to worry when your baby won’t sleep through the night. The story is about a new study that finds that a certain amount of allowing your babies to cry is not harmful.
I thought you might want to see it, so here it is: Parents Can Let Sleepless Babies Cry It Out
Agree. My baby has mostly slept through the night since 6-weeks, and even before that she’d sleep at least 3 hours. It added to my ‘shame’ that I couldn’t cope when my Mom friends were up hourly to nurse and were all smiles.
As an aside – We don’t really practice cry it out because she doesn’t cry all that often. More reason why I felt like I had to hide my post-partum. I felt like if I had it ‘easy’ then I should feel good.