22 Month Old Not Sleeping Through the Night

Wow, I hope you're okay from your car accident! Be careful out there. My husband got about one hour of sleep last night due to taking care of DS (we take turns every other night), and had to drive to work. I don't like that.

I wanted to share that I got this book called "Tears and Tantrums" by Aletha Solter, PhD. She studied with Piaget, etc., etc. I don't know why I haven't heard of her before I got this book today. Anyway, she has an interesting idea that sounds somewhat related to what your paents did with your sister. She says to never give a bottle or nurse or rock a baby to sleep. And never let them cry it out in the crib. She says what you should do is to hold them in their room (like sitting on a chair, but NOT rocking the chair -- or if it's an older child then you can sit in bed with them).

So with a baby (even a 2 year old), you hold them but do nothing else -- no rocking, no feeding, no singing. I think she says you can softly talk to them, but that's it. And you should expect that they'll cry, sometimes for over an hour -- for the first few times. But she says that this will get them to disassociate bottle feeding, breastfeeding, rocking, etc. to falling asleep, and at the same time you aren't abandoning them to their bed. Anyway, I'm going to try this and we'll see. Has anyone reading this tried this method?

I see what you're saying about rocking DS during his nap. I might ease into not doing that, but I'm going to keep doing it for now. I just want to make sure he's still tired at his regular bedtime when I try this new idea.

Akhtarsa, I just re-read your post. (See, I am sleep deprived so I'm a little slow!) DH is watching DS now.