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Cameron: It’s hard to be a good, cheerful parent when you’re up all night. Narrator: Getting your baby to sleep through the night is the ultimate quest of any new mom and dad. Tamara and Cameron O’Neil have tried walking, pacifiers, bouncing, stairs, and drives in the car with their five-month-old son, Thaddeus. Tamara: What [...]

Hi Just reading the messages on here regarding this issue. My lo is 6mths old. He pretty much sleeps through the night from about 7-7 as long as he’s eaten all his meals during the day! lunchtime nap however is a different story. We;re doing the Gina Ford routine so he sleeps for 30 mins [...]

While you may feel you’re suddenly the parent of a whirling dervish — or Superman, who can get by without any sleep at all — it sounds like you have an overtired toddler on your hands. That’s right: Even though he fights it like the dickens, he’s really in need of a serious nap. He’s [...]

Yep, I’ve been there too, the last poster gave some excellent suggestions. She was less fussy, that when we were more attentive to burping and minimizing gas. My daughter would not take a pacifier ( I don’t personally like them ), but now at 6 months she finds her thumb and that helps soothe her [...]

This is a wonderful addition to the Sears Parenting Library. While the book contains standard AP/Sears fare (i.e. breastfeeding is good, consider co-sleeping, always respond to a crying baby, etc.), there are also some great new ideas wrt to helping your baby sleep better and longer. Know what you’re getting when you buy this book [...]

“But our baby sleeps just fine through the night in her own room,” your friends may tell you. Every baby has a different personality. Some needier babies simply need more of their parents day and night. On pages 73 to 75 we discuss infant personalities and temperaments and how they relate to baby’s nighttime needs. [...]

This is a very sensitive subject for many mothers, so please don’t be offended if you don’t like my idea (well, I suppose you are here for advice, right? ) Your daughter is plenty old enough to cry it out. You probably should have done this months ago. What is great about the “tough love” [...]

For every parent who has ever been deprived of sleep by a restless infant or toddler, now there’s hope. The Baby Sleep Book is the comprehensive, reassuring, solution-filled sleep resource that every family will want to own. Babies don’t automatically know how to sleep through the night; they need to be taught. The Searses have [...]

Baby sleep training: No tears methods Reviewed by the BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board Last updated: January 2007 Can I train my baby to fall asleep without leaving him to cry? Teaching your baby to soothe himself to sleep and sleep through the night doesn’t have to mean letting him cry it out (CIO). If you [...]

Baby Fighting Sleep What to Do if You Have a Baby Fighting Sleep “Baby fighting sleep†is a description often given by parents who haven’t gotten enough sleep because they were up most of the night with a crying baby. Usually “baby fighting sleep†means simply that a baby is having a hard time going [...]