Do you believe in sleep training for infants?

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I think babies are different and you just have to learn what works. Our older child was quick to sleep, and if he cried for more than a few minutes we knew we’d made a mistake: he wasn’t ready for bed. The younger one had to make a whole lot of noise before he settled down, and if we didn’t leave him to it, he’d have been up and down all night. We used to refer to his behavior as “shouting himself to sleep.”

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