There are several gentle forms of sleep training. What’s the gentlest form of sleep training? Unfortunately, there’s no one size fits all when it comes to sleep training.ĭepending on your child’s temperament and age, some sleep training methods might be more suitable than others.īelow I’ll highlight the most popular sleep training methods, and when they are most successful. What’s the most effective sleep training method? Ready to for your little one ( and you!) to get some much needed rest? Here’s everything you wanted to know about the five most widely-used sleep training methods.
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With so many methods, ranging from in-the-room techniques with next to no crying, to out-of-the room techniques that work fast but do typically result in tears, parents have many options to help teach their children how to get rest. Sleep training can be quite controversial, but it doesn’t need to be. While some children are natural-born sleepers, many babies need some form of sleep training to learn how to put themselves down to sleep without our assistance. Sleep coaching for naps with The Sleep Lady Shuffle takes two to three weeks.Getting your child to sleep is no small feat. Sometimes it can happen faster, but that’s about the average. In about seven to ten nights she will be largely sleeping through the night. You’re going to do the The Shuffle at bedtime and every time that she wakes up. The details about my method, The Sleep Lady Shuffle, are outlined in my book. Only pick her up to calm her if she gets really hysterical. You can pat, shush intermittently, and encourage her to lie down. I really don’t want you to get into a struggle with her over a skill she can learn.
It never works! You will be lying her down all night long. If she doesn’t know this skill, then you need to practice that during the day so you don’t get stuck with constantly helping her at night. Teach Her To Lie Down During the DayĪt this age she should know how to go from a sitting up position to lying down. Stay close enough so that you can pat her in between the slots of the crib and encourage her to lie down. Sit down next to her crib so that when she’s sitting up you can see her between the slots of the crib. I want you to stay with her and offer physical and verbal reassurance. Lots of times when babies are pre-verbal they cry. Remind yourself that she is learning a new skill, so, of course she’s not going to understand why you would switch this up on her. You don’t want to get her halfway to sleep and when you put her in the crib she panics, wakes up, sits up, and cries.
It is important that you aren’t tricking her or getting her too drowsy. Think of it more like your baby is fed, dry, warm, loved, “kissed”, and then put her right into the crib. You really want her to be more awake than drowsy. I always recommend that you start sleep coaching at bedtime on a night after a great day of naps.Īfter a soothing bedtime routine put her down drowsy, but awake in her crib. Regardless of how you got here, this is where you are! Your baby doesn’t realize it but, in some sense, she’s told you, “Mommy, I need to learn how to go to sleep without you rocking me to sleep.” This means that you have to start sleep coaching her. It starts to take longer and longer for you to get her to “sleepy enough” so that you can put her down and she’ll stay asleep. It’s as if they are saying, “Oh, I used to fall asleep nursing to sleep, but then mommy had to nurse me and then start rocking me too. I find that it’s common for babies to “outgrow” their sleep crutch or that it stops working. I don’t know how to put myself to sleep without that.” They Eventually Want More and More It’s like she’s saying, “What are you doing? I don’t know how to put myself to sleep! Usually you hold me or console me or rock me to sleep and that’s what I’m used to. She hasn’t learned the skill of putting herself to sleep and she doesn’t quite understand. Mary, it sounds like your baby is used to you putting her down very sleepy so that when you put her down more awake she cries. I don’t know if it’s teething or a sleep regression. “When I put my ten-month-old down awake enough, she cries and looks for me and sits up and won’t lay herself down to go back to sleep.
I’m Kim West, The Sleep Lady, and in this video I’m going to answer Mary’s question that she posted on my Facebook page:
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