As a father of an 11 month old who started sleeping through the night at about 7 months, the strategy was as follows:

1. Stop breastfeeding in the middle of the night
2. Try to let him cry it out for 10 minutes. Then go in and re-tuck him in making very little emotional connection. If he continues to cry, try 10 more minutes, rinse, repeat, until you and your wife cannot handle it. It is okay to give in.

Worked for us. Only took 3 days.

Scotch? For you, that is. Then you won't notice the two-hour intervals.

Dude,

I just want to say that I appreciate your optimized builds for the Mac. I'm also on 10.5 and may very well have to do a build myself once you post instructions.

As far as the baby goes, if you get up and go to him when he cries in the middle of the night, you are encouraging him to cry for attention. It can be difficult but try to let him just cry himself to sleep. It takes a few days / weeks to train him but once you do, your life will be much easier. Promise!

if anyone has any tips on getting a six-month old baby to stop waking up every two hours at night I’d sure be thankful.

Whiskey.

No, I'm kidding. It just takes time, is all.

Thanks alot for all you've done, when I first got an intel mac I kept having it eat up my processor like it was chocolate pudding, these builds rock and they give me an excuse to play around with stylish and pic2pic

I really appreciate your optimized builds. Thanks. The best baby sleep advice I can give comes from personal experience. It sounds like your baby is not napping well during the day. Solve that problem and your baby should sleep through the night! I recommend the book "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" -- the info therein is invaluable. Good luck!

Hi, there are several choices. We decided to sleep with our baby in our bed and accept fact that she is waking up every 2-3 hours. Or you can move the baby to other room. It's different with each child.

We have simply accepted it as a part of our life and even if we don't sleep well on some nights it's not a tragedy.

Say, in you "Bucket Of Blood" post you may wish to check your spelling the Maxwell Brock acTOR Julian Burton.

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Did moi key "You" and not "Your"?

Duh

I loved the Trajan video. It's so true!

Another one that I see EVERYWHERE is the Pulp Fiction font. It's not even restricted to movies anymore! You can find it on garage sale signs.

Re the baby sleeping: As a father of 3, we got a lot of value out of the "preparation for Parenting" course and "Babywise" book. In essence, they have a big enough tummy to sleep through the night from around 8 to 10 weeks old. Our 12 week old is sleeping about 9-10 hours straight.

If they are feeding well through the day, then the night time waking is just a habit that needs to be broken, as per what Jamie said in post #1. If they are not feeding every 3.5 to 4 hours through the day, then maybe that is the first area to focus on. Hope that helps, appreciate your work on the builds!

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it is a choice as far as the baby is concerned, i.e. there is attachment parenting (google it) and then there are the zillion other methods. I like AP the best, but YMMV, i.e. a very personal choice. I have an 18 month old that doesn't sleep through the night either, and she probably won't until she's at least 2 yrs old. Some nights are better than others, it just depends on if she is teething.

Good luck!

oh the irony :-)

anyways, neil, thanks again for the (upcoming) optimized-G4 builds. btw there are two G4 variants (the 7400 and 7450) - which kind of G4 do you have?

i don't have first-hand experience with kids, but my parents say the best thing is to just let the infant sleep with you - I mean, 6 months, not 6 years...

and Happy Holidays!

Thanks. I really look forward to the howto guide on optimized firefox builds hopefully including information for version firefox 3 and OSX 10.5. I'm still on the fence if OSX 10.5 was worth it or not.

We used the Ferber Method from the following book for both of our kids:

http://www.amazon.com/Solve-Your-Childs-Sleep-Problems/dp/0671620991/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198873749&sr=8-1

Worked like a charm. The first child starting sleeping through the night within 2 nights. The second child picked it up in one night. There were both about 8 months old when we did it. They have been sleeping straight through the night ever since (unless sick). The oldest is now 6 and the youngest is now 4 1/2.

Hope that it helps.

I disagree with the method of just letting the baby cry until HE accepts the fact that nobody is going to give a rat's ass (I know you care, but not to the baby).

Babies need 3 simple things (as I am sure you already know): love, food, and companionship. If the reason he's waking up is because he's still hungry, you really can't just wish his hunger away. Now, if the reason for waking up is because he's "lonely", try using one of those "ambient noise" machines (our air purifier acts as one) or if you don't mind, let the baby sleep in the same room as you so that he hears the ambient noise in the room.

But finding out WHY the baby is waking up would be the ultimate way to solve your problem. Good luck.

If the 'cry it out' things works for you that's fine, but it didn't work for us and I refused to feel guilty about it. Some babies just want company. I used to wrap my DS tightly to calm him down (there's a book about it now, see 'Babygami' on Amazon). In the end when he woke I would sleepwalk across the landing and go back to sleep on a bed next to his cot, one arm round him. That way we both got some sleep. When his sister arrived she refused cuddles and company from the outset and slept through. Diffrent strokes for diffrent folks.