The Baby Sleep Solution: The stay-and-support method to help your baby sleep through the night

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The Baby Sleep Solution: The stay-and-support method to help your baby sleep through the night

The Baby Sleep Solution: The stay-and-support method to help your baby sleep through the night

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Our first meeting took place over Zoom and after reading the 'Client History Review' I had sent through ahead of it, Lucy seemed very confident that we could solve all our problems in four weeks. I was delighted to hear her encouraging words but also a tiny bit doubtful as my son seemed to be very stubborn (I had tried other methods I had found on Google… and nothing worked). My work is focused on helping parents to establish positive sleep practices for their children from birth to 6 years of age, with a responsive, attuned, loving and supportive approach. I'm combined feeding now so my partner can help a little but like you say it does make it difficult to know what he's getting. He can go 4 hours in the day so maybe 4 hours would be a good time to aim for in the night... say he goes to bed at 7 and we feed if he wakes around 1 and 5ish... Lucy Wolfe, HDip RM, MA Sleep Consultant and Co-Creational Relationship Mentor Author of The Baby Sleep Solution, All About the Baby Sleep Solution, Creator of Sleep Through brand, TV Columnist, Writer and Mum of Four Now, I continue that passion as I witness first-hand the devastating impact loss of sleep has on parents and their overall experiences of parenting. Furthermore, accompanying individuals on a journey of sleep improvement feels like a privilege. It’s worthwhile, and important work overall. How much sleep should we be getting, and why are we not getting enough?

If you see your baby on the baby monitor and their eyes are still closed and their cry is more of a whinge it’s okay to give them a little time to see if they can resettle.” Night-time waking and severe asleep deprivation are unavoidable for new parents but for how long should that last and what can be done if it seems to be continuing indefinitely? He doesn't feed to sleep except during the night and he used to be able to self settle for naps and at the start of the night but never in the night (including half an hour after he's been put down!) he's lost this though since we moved him into his own room.

Sleep training methods

The cry it out method of sleep training, also called the "extinction" method, involves putting your baby to bed and letting her cry until she falls asleep without any comfort or help from you. Hiya, I did this a few months ago and had a lengthy support thread on here! I’ll paste the link and maybe actually post on it again as I wonder how the others are getting on now. Implement a good bedtime routine - when the time comes for putting them to bed, and you’ve done all the important steps, lay them in their cot (they should be drowsy at this point) and don’t leave the room until they are asleep. As Galway-based Quinn explains: “Most sleep consultants will only work proactively on sleep after the age of six months, so that they can be sure that the baby has developed mature sleep cycles and the capability to sleep for longer periods.” My books provide the information to encourage parents to establish positive sleep practices and overcome sleep challenges without feeling under pressure to resort to rigid, inflexible, cry-intensive strategies.

Definitely don’t think of it as training - think of the process as a learning opportunity, to help your child’s sleep ability to emerge with your conscious and mindful support as their ability starts to emerge. Be predictable, loving, attuned and responsive. Niamh O’Reilly: Co-sleeping can be a very effective way for a family to get sleep. “Make yourself aware of the safe co-sleeping guidelines.” For Wolfe, consistency and lots of parent-child connection are key aspects “as you are getting them ready for the big separation”. She stresses that “the more work the child does for themselves in achieving their sleep, the more chance they have of getting through the night-time sleep phases without parental input”. In extensive sleep advice on mychild.ie (and in the "Mychild 0-2 years" book given out by public health nurse), it explicitly says parents should not bedshare if the baby is under three months, was born prematurely (before 37 weeks) or had a low birth weight (less than 2.5kg), or if you or your partner are smokers, have consumed alcohol or other drugs, or are "over-tired".

Following years of training, education and working directly with families I developed an effective and practical approach for parents in this modern age of parenting. I felt that it was important that I share my work in this book-so that parents are no longer forced into rigid, scientifically inappropriate routines that have no recourse to the child’s or the parents well being. The consultants all agree that whatever the routine is, it should be started before the child is too tired. Wolfe believes that babies aged four to eight months generally do well if there is no more than two hours between the last nap and aiming to be in bed asleep. That grows to a three- to four-hour gap by 18 months. And while this technique may be the right fit for some families, know that it may lead to more tears for some babies. When your baby falls asleep with you in the room, she may be startled and possibly upset when she awakes and you’re no longer there. Bedtime fading method I am a busy Mum to four lovely children and can easily associate with whatever sleep challenges that you may be experiencing, both as a parent and a professional. It should never be underestimated how parents' state of mind and mental health influence the baby's sleep and vice-versa, says Magda Kedzierska-Teague of Sleep Story.

She doesn’t encourage the constant use of a night light for babies or young children. “I only recommend the use of a night light when a toddler is ready to be potty trained at night. A source of light in the bedroom can contribute to frequent nightly wake-ups.” Hi and welcome to Sleep Matters, you will be glad that you found me; I can transform your sleepless life wherever you are located in Ireland and all around the world. But then she started teething (second set) and was waking every hour but refusing her bottle, so I just persevered with her over three nights (it was rough). But then when her teeth came through - she slept from 6pm - 6am for the first time ever & has done so ever since... so she effectively night weaned herself! While it may seem harsh, CIO is harder on you than on your little one. With consistency (that’s the key!), your baby should begin falling asleep on her own within three to four nights, give or take. Ferber method After a few nights of putting her down at that time, move bedtime 15 minutes earlier and repeat the process with this new bedtime.But - it is intense - I’ve become so obsessed with the timings of everything, because she now really struggles to fall asleep if overtired and going to sleep even 10 min late can cause loads of crying. Maybe this was always the case and I’m now more aware of what’s going wrong. So this means naps are a bit of a lottery and several times a week we will have horrible screaming nap refusal, but she’s exhausted, and now her sleep anywhere other than the cot is really poor. But when timings are right she will have two beautiful 1.5hr naps in cot and it all feels worth it! Parents should not leave their child to cry for prolonged periods, says Geoghegan. However, it’s fine to give your baby a brief chance to cry and resettle before attending to them. However, Quinn says that she most commonly works with parents who have found themselves to be “accidental” co-sleepers and are hoping to move their baby to their own sleep space but are not quite sure how to do it. She recommends parents spend non-sleep time with their child in the bedroom, to reinforce the idea that it is a nice place to be. And in making the transition from co-sleeping to cot, introduce playtime in the cot, she suggests. While that might seem counter-intuitive, she believes it supports “a positive association”.

From birth you can begin to gently shape your child’s sleep in the first 6 months and implement my effective and caring, percentage of wakefulness approach and from 6 months onwards up to age 6 you can learn all about my stay and support method and sleep guidance that promotes sleeping through the night and napping well by day, when your child is developmentally able to do so. I don't want to confuse him so that he can be fed sometimes and not others but I also don't want to feed him unnecessarily because how things are right now is not good for any of us. No matter what method you’re trying, the following sleep training tips can help ensure a smoother transition to dreamland: Use my unique two fold sleep strategy which combines biological time keeping and parent attended support to develop positive sleeping tendencies National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Discussion of Extinction-Based Behavioral Sleep Interventions for Young Children and Reasons Why Parents May Find Them Difficult, November 2016.The American Paediatric Association advises strongly against it because of incidences of infant mortality due to suffocation, yet there are well-regarded parenting books which strongly advocate it as a natural and normal way for babies to sleep," she says. "I believe that it is a parenting choice. I don't advise parents to do it but I do not judge either if this is something that they have decided to do." However, O’Reilly says that if at all possible, a bedroom should be a place to sleep. “Keeping it free of too many toys or ‘things to do’ will create a sanctuary and peaceful space for babies and older kids.” You can apply the same nighttime sleep training strategy for naps. If you’re trying cry it out or Ferber, keep in mind that after 30 minutes of crying, a good portion of the nap may be gone. So you may want to set a limit on crying (say, 10 or 15 minutes) before trying another method of getting your baby to sleep. How long does sleep training take?



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