> Longer-term, the Australian study found that any parent-reported improvements in sleep from sleep training disappeared by age two. > > What we found when the

> Longer-term, the Australian study found that any parent-reported improvements in sleep from sleep training disappeared by age two. > > What we found when the children were six was no difference to their sleep and no difference to their behaviour – Harriet Hiscock It's not about long-term effects. It's about the parents getting to actually sleep. We did sleep training as per What to Expect the First Year. Others we know spoiled their babies so much that now that their babies are toddlers, the "babies" still sleep with the parents -- I'm talking about people for whom it was not a cultural thing to let their children sleep with them, nor necessary due to lack of space or anything.