best wishes
Steve

He now screams as soon as I put him in his cot unless he is basically already asleep. He is pretty clingy generally at the moment. I feel awful that he is crying so much even though I am right there and will usually pick him up fairly quickly. Do you have any suggestions for how to make him happier to go into his cot awake?

Thanks again,
Jess

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There are lots of “factual seeming websites” and “factual seeming books” but if you pay close attention you will find (as I have found in pretty much all of them that I have looked at, numerous logical fallacies, demands for proof of the negative, “what-ifs” suddenly taken as givens without any sort of proof.

When you choose not to vaccinate you ARE putting your child at risk. You ARE putting other people’s children at risk. When people like me who are allergic to the vaccine and cannot take it have to depend on herd immunity, the more people who risk their own children on very shaky “evidence” that vaccines supposedly do not work, the larger hole there is in herd immunity. I am only glad that I did not get pertussis as an infant or toddler.

For example, on Wikipedia, this paragraph quotes some relevant statistics with regards to Measles,

“In 1958 there were 763,094 cases of measles and 552 deaths in the United States.[17][18] With the help of new vaccines, the number of cases dropped to fewer than 150 per year (median of 56).[18] In early 2008, there were 64 suspected cases of measles. 54 out of 64 infections were associated with importation from another country, although only 13% were actually acquired outside of the United States; 63 of these 64 individuals either had never been vaccinated against measles, or were uncertain whether they had been vaccinated.[18]”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine

This is only one example of how vaccines do reduce illness. The number of truly serious adverse reactions is very, very low. I had one that could have killed me, but I still support vaccination. I mean, consider this.

Even if autoimmune conditions are caused in part by vaccines. Life with an autoimmune condition is still LIFE, and children have a much greater chance of survival WITH vaccines than without. With a very few exceptions, most children with autoimmune conditions would probably prefer life with the condition to death.

Though i do not believe that vaccinations cause autism, which has been proven by statistics and studying cohort groups, I do believe that something in them probably speeds up the process. So though I cannot prove it, I think that a good reconciliation of the studies that prove that by the age of (I think it was 6 or 9) there are relatively the same number of children in both groups of children who were vaccinated and those that were not, and the large number of anecdotal stories of parents who say that their kids shortly after a series of vaccinations became autistic is to suggest that somehow the vaccinations accelerated some internal disease process. The numbers prove that not vaccinating will NOT save any children from autism.

Please, anybody who does not believe in vaccination, find videos if you can of children hooked up to tubes and machines struggling to breathe and clear their airways with whooping cough, find videos of the horrible effects of Polio, diptheria, and all of these diseases.

and DO NOT kid yourselves that these have been eliminated. Many of these diseases run rampant in third world countries (which, btw, the suffering these diseases cause in other countries does not create a particularly convincing argument for the abolition of vaccinations) and with world travel as easy as its ever been, do not kid yourself that you are safe if you live in a nice developed country.

We have a beautiful and happy 6 month old however we are struggling with night time sleep. He settles himself perfectly during the day (generally has 2 x 1-1.5 hr sleeps and one shorter nap later in the day) but nightime is just a struggle. We need to go in and out of his room (we leave once he is calm) at least 5 time to get him to sleep initially (sometimes we just end up cuddling him to sleep) and then the longest stretch he will sleep all night is 3 hours at best without needing resettling/feeding. I usually feed him twice during the night however, he is not that hungry (he also eats solids well during the day) and I suspect just doing it for comfort. We are just so exhausted!! Any ideas?

He will sleep for 2 hours initially (6/7pm- 8/9pm) and then wake crying and more often than not it takes hours of patting, shhing, picking up, cuddling, rocking and trying to put him back into his cot before he goes back down, only to be repeated a few hours later. I am beside myself as the whole process is exhausting and even if I feed him/rock him to sleep after all else has failed he will still often scream the minutei python back in the cot and I have to start all over again. Sometimes he will be ok to be left to play/grizzle for a bit in the cot by himself but then this escalates to crying and arching his back and screaming until I pick him up.

Can you recommend any strategies to help? Have I done something wrong?
Thanks,
Jess