Sleeping part 2

After one week of the five minute method without any progress we (or I) decided that we were gonna switch to the Crazy Frog (Tracy Hogg)'s Pick Up Put Down method. Instead of letting the baby feel abandoned, scream of her own and get traumatised for life you here pick up the screaming baby, and then put her down immediately when she stops crying. According to the baby whisperer, it takes usually 20 minutes before the baby sleeps the first night, but in extreme cases there might be 150 PUPD cycles.

Right. With Junia I counted to 10 PUPDs, and number 11 only became a PU as she did not stop crying. So also this method went out the window.

Instead we have now developed our own method, the SJ method. It basically consists of Justus singing the only four Dutch children songs he knows, over and over, in a very bored and tired voice. Singing Justus comforts Junia straight away, and sooner or later she gets bored and falls asleep. I personally also find it much easier falling asleep to a Singing Justus than a Screaming Junia, so I must say that I quite like this method.