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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 [...]

Everyone needs to feel secure in order have a restful sleep, which is important to keep in mind for putting your baby to sleep. Having a pleasant bedtime routine is vital to habituating your baby to sleep securely. This means dedicating about two hours per night to the “putting baby to sleep” routing. The goals [...]

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 [...]

If you have a newborn baby or are expecting one, it is important that you use the correct methods to ensure that after a minimal amount of time your baby is getting a good night’s sleep. A good night’s sleep is essential for the physical and mental well-being of a baby, and also makes life [...]

Putting baby to bed AWAKE – is it really that easy? We know that sleep is necessary and natural, so why is it so hard to establish good sleeping habits for our babies? If the magic formula is simply to put your baby down to for a sleep when he’s still awake, why is that [...]

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 [...]

By now, you’ve probably heard a dozen different ways to put your baby to bed: Rock her, don’t rock her; let her cry, don’t let her cry; put her in your bed, don’t put her in your bed. Yet you’re still desperately seeking sleep. Congratulations — you’ve learned the first, most golden rule of parenting: [...]

Putting Baby to Sleep Mother’s Instinct Helps Infants Sleep Better Mar 31, 2009 Bonnie Way Hundreds of articles and books have been written about getting a baby to sleep, each giving different advice. Most advocate various methods of the cry-it-out technique and many give conflicting information about how baby should be put to sleep. Mothers [...]

HomeBaby Sleep Tips Putting Baby to Sleep When reading and learning about putting a baby to sleep, a lot of attention is given to baby sleep habits, and with good reason. One of the most difficult things about becoming a parent is learning to deal with being woken up at all times of the night [...]

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” [...]