All right, great question from a listener.

How do I know if I have a strong bond with my 13-month-old son?

What can me and my wife do about his sleeping schedule

since he still wakes up three to four times per night to feed?

My wife doesn't want to sleep.

Train him because she fears the bond between her and him will be negatively impacted,

but she hasn't had a full night's rest in six or more months.

Thank you. Well,

a difficult and sensitive topic, I will, as usual, ride roughshort all over it. No, I'm going to do my best.

This is a delicate and sensitive subject, and I myself received and took to heart a lot of criticism back of the day.

My daughter is going to be 17 next month, but way back in the day.

At the beginning of these things, the beginning of her life, she was not a sleeper.

I remember in the hospital, I remember the first night she was with us. She slept beautifully,

and we heard all of the other babies crying, and she slept really nicely, and then that was it.

That was all, and that was no more sleeping to be had after that.

And she never liked going to bed. She never liked being alone. And she always wanted to be

held, to be chatted with, and to be read to, and to be cuddled,

and she was just, I mean, say, ferociously bonded, but that's kind of an oxymoron.

But my daughter was not a sleeper, and she's never been much of a sleeper as a whole.

And my daughter, my wife, of course, was breastfeeding,

and so she would do, would be up, as you say, a couple of times a night at least. And as she

colloquially put it, throw a poop at her so that my, my daughter would feed and go back to

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