u/Milehigh123club

Just wanted to share this for support/solidarity..
I had a role model/mother figure in my life who I was incredibly close to since I was a teen. She’s almost 15 years older than me and has kids herself. One of hers was an awful sleeper too and she had to CIO even though she’s the most attachment driven person I know.
We had a big argument when my baby was born and wasn’t sleeping at all and she was pushing me to sleep train and said I’m being difficult and unreasonable as I kept refusing and even offered to st my kid. She said she had to do cio and so I’ll have to do that too. I told her this isn’t something me or my partner are okay with and I won’t do it.
It was very heated and ended up causing a lot of distance and drift between us..
I don’t know if that’s the right page for this vent but as you all know.. moms really need their support systems and I kinda lost a huge part of mine. It’s just sad and I just wanted to vent.
My baby is one and a bit now and we’re still up every few hours (a win from the first 9-10m when we were up every 20-80 mins!) but we are both thriving and I think it was triggering for her to see that her ST wasn’t a necessity. She said she felt pressured to do cio as everyone told her baby needs to sttn at 2-3 months
I’m sure it’s a common issue when parenting styles clash but ours don’t.. so it’s more a social media and society pressures

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