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I've been reading this book titled after the first six weeks.
It's by a midwife of many years experience Cath something or other.
She has some very interesting ideas. One is that loosing the dummy is not the difficulty of the child but the difficulty of the parents. It is not the child who has the difficulty of letting go but the parent. She has strong views on dummies, good tool until about 6 mo then it just becomes a nusience.
As soon as I read that and felt that I agreed, I immediately stopped using Wendy's dummy and we have been absolutely fine for a whole week until Saturday it's Pete's turn to look after Wendy and instead of listening to my instructions (give her vaccume cleaner Spotify to sleep) he falls back on old habits and brings out the dummy.
Cath seems to know what she's talking about.
As soon as I got home Wendy was stoppy from two shit naps with dummy no Spotify. So I gave her my phone and set her off to nod. It took a good deal longer than I thought she would have otherwise taken to go to sleep but she got there more or less on her own with Spotify.
Pete didn't want to give her his phone is what I was thinking and had low belief that Spotify vaccume cleaner was essential.
Today I remembered there's a portable tape recorder at my mum's from my teens that I used to use to help me study, and if I can find a cassette to use I will convert it into the world's cheapest white noise machine.
Honestly we parents have to be thrifty or we'll go broke in a heartbeat. I'm deathly afraid to buy a white noise machine for fear the type of white noise won't work quite as well as the particular vaccine cleaner we got going.
I wonder what type is it. Must be a Miele sounds like the one I have at home.
Once again. Totally agree. It's not the child who has the issue with sleep or settling, or the dummy but the parent.
It's by a midwife of many years experience Cath something or other.
She has some very interesting ideas. One is that loosing the dummy is not the difficulty of the child but the difficulty of the parents. It is not the child who has the difficulty of letting go but the parent. She has strong views on dummies, good tool until about 6 mo then it just becomes a nusience.
As soon as I read that and felt that I agreed, I immediately stopped using Wendy's dummy and we have been absolutely fine for a whole week until Saturday it's Pete's turn to look after Wendy and instead of listening to my instructions (give her vaccume cleaner Spotify to sleep) he falls back on old habits and brings out the dummy.
Cath seems to know what she's talking about.
As soon as I got home Wendy was stoppy from two shit naps with dummy no Spotify. So I gave her my phone and set her off to nod. It took a good deal longer than I thought she would have otherwise taken to go to sleep but she got there more or less on her own with Spotify.
Pete didn't want to give her his phone is what I was thinking and had low belief that Spotify vaccume cleaner was essential.
Today I remembered there's a portable tape recorder at my mum's from my teens that I used to use to help me study, and if I can find a cassette to use I will convert it into the world's cheapest white noise machine.
Honestly we parents have to be thrifty or we'll go broke in a heartbeat. I'm deathly afraid to buy a white noise machine for fear the type of white noise won't work quite as well as the particular vaccine cleaner we got going.
I wonder what type is it. Must be a Miele sounds like the one I have at home.
Once again. Totally agree. It's not the child who has the issue with sleep or settling, or the dummy but the parent.
