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I knew we needed help. So I asked Erin Junker, an infant and toddler sleep consultant and founder of the Happy Sleep Company, to help me identify the main reasons why sleep-training fails.
To be clear: You can start sleep training at bedtime, but you need a solid daytime nap schedule in place, too. The way you put your baby down for naps also matters, explains Junker.
If you decide to sleep-train at bedtime, both parents have to stick to the plan. No caving. With practice, your baby will figure out how to drift off to sleep all on his own. Junker encourages her clients to give their babies a few minutes to fuss before rushing into the nursery, even if you have older kids in the house who might wake up.
One little cry or yelp is not necessarily a full wakeup. I talk about early bedtimes a lot. There is no time that is more important for an early bedtime than during sleep coaching. Naps will almost always suffer during sleep training, at least for the first few days. The best thing for your baby on a day of craptastic naps is an early bedtime.
There is no advantage to stretching your child to an 'appropriate' bedtime when said stretching will just result in your baby becoming overtired and waking crying every hours all night long because the bedtime was too late. How early is too early? For a child that is still waking to eat at night, the earliest I recommend putting baby down is pm. For a baby that is sleeping through without feedings, the earliest bedtime I use is pm and these are put down times.
Do not fear the early bedtime! It will be your best friend on days where things just don't go your way. To prepare your child for an early bedtime, make sure you are completing your full bedtime routine bath included as this will help signal to your baby 'bedtime' vs. Contrary to popular belief, if your child wakes up minutes after an early bedtime, it often means that bedtime was still too late, and not too early.
If your baby does wake, treat it like you would any other nightwaking according to your sleep coaching plan. Avoid taking the child out of the room or feeding them back to sleep as feeding at this time a can create a habitual waking very quickly and b will set the rest of your night up to be fragmented with every hour wakings. The timing of bedtime is especially important on the first night of sleep coaching remember, because we always start at bedtime. Stretching bedtime, even by 10 or 15 minutes, can result in much more crying and protesting as an overtired child has a build-up of stress hormones in their body, which makes sleep very difficult.
There are many different methods we can use to help baby to sleep. From those deemed 'no cry' spoiler alert: there will still be tears to the more 'let cry'. How do you choose which method is best for your child? Ask yourself these questions:. What are my parenting philosophies? Sleep training will always take you out of your comfort zone but doing your research and picking a method that is best aligned with your unique views on the subject is very important.
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