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Here are several methods for teaching your toddler to fall asleep without your presence. As long as you consistently promote your toddler’s independent sleep initiation and self-soothing programs, your toddler will soon be able to self-activate sleep mode. Use sleep strategies to first target bedtime, then night wakings, and finally naps. EXPERT TIP: If your [...]

My son is the same age, and I’m having similar difficulties. My “story” is a little different, but I’ll tell you and hopefully it will help. I use to nurse my baby to sleep and then put him in his crib and he’d sleep until 5 am on his own. After he woke up I’d [...]

0 My seven-month-old used to sleep through the night; a solid 7.5 to nine hours straight. But for the last few weeks, he’s gotten up once (occasionally twice) to feed. And he’s hungry, so it’s not just for comfort. What’s going on? When will he sleep through the night again? (He was born six weeks [...]

Gentle infant sleep training: Programs for children 6 months and up 2008 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved When parents hear about infant sleep training, they often think of babies left alone in their cribs to cry themselves to sleep. But there are alternatives to such an approach. Here I describe two such alternatives, both [...]

Sleep training: The Ferber method and its alternatives 2008 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved The Ferber methodalso known as graduated extinctionis perhaps the most well-known sleep training program for children. It is also one of the most controversial, primarily because the method involves a degree of crying it out. In a series of training [...]

This is the first is a series of sleep book mini-reviews that will be posted to this blog. These sleep book mini-reviews are mentioned in Appendix C of my brand new book Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage. The purpose of these reviews is [...]

Margie: It’s hard when you’re getting up constantly in the middle of the night. It’s just wearing on me. Narrator: First-time parents Mike and Margie Gunn aren’t going to let their 5-month-old son control their nights anymore. It’s time for a dose of independence for little Nicholas. Mike: I don’t want him to get to [...]

Newborn Sleep Problems – What People Can Do About Them First-time parents often run across newborn sleep problems the day they take their bundles of joy home. Couples say a temporary goodbye to a good night’s sleep during this period of adjustment. But don’t lose hope. Sleepless nights aren’t totally unheard of for majority of [...]

After thousands of years, one would suppose appropriate sleep routines would be ingrained in our traditional childrearing practices, but somehow we’ve lapsed, so it’s fortunate Elizabeth Pantley felt called to retrain us in mindful, deliberate ways to support children’s healthful rest. Following her insightful, reliable guide to helping babies settle into sleep better (No-Cry Sleep [...]