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From: luria@ucbvax.ARPA (Marc Luria)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Problem with infant standing up but afraid to sit down
Message-ID: <10457@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 19:45:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10457
Posted: Mon Sep 23 19:45:14 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 07:00:22 EDT
Reply-To: luria@ucbvax.UUCP (Marc Luria)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Our son, Yaakov, 9 mo., recently learned to stand himself up by holding on to
something but is afraid to sit down.  We have read about this problem
in Penelope Leach and a couple other books.  Their advice is to go to
the child when he cries and gently lower him down.  They say it should
only last a couple weeks.  This is what we have been doing during the
day and his fear has decreased considerably. 

The problem that they don't mention is that Yaakov has been doing the
same thing in the middle of the night.  Usually we just let him cry
for a minute and he goes right to sleep.  Now, however, he wakes up
and immediately pulls himself up.  Since he can't get back down, he
will cry indefinitely.  Also, by the time he wakes us up from this
position he is usually so agitated that it takes awhile to get him
back to sleep.  

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Have your children gone through
similar periods?  How long did it last?


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