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You can’t really teach your baby how to self-soothe, but you can provide him with the opportunity to teach himself. Given the right circumstances and the right stage of development, usually between 3 and 6 months of age, it will happen on its own. It’s like learning to crawl: If you always carry your baby, [...]

Hey, you’re new! I love new people, welcome. You may want to subscribe to Baby-Log via RSS feed or via email. Thanks for visiting! I shared my white-noise experiment (hair dryer as sleeping aid) with other mothers in the mums group and raised some eyebrows. A couple of mums agreed that we should use “whatever [...]

Getting Baby to Sleep Through the Night Teaching Your Infant Good Nighttime Habits Jul 1, 2008 Siobhan Keely It is your job as a parent to teach your baby to sleep through the night. It’s very important to understand that baby’s sleep is needed for growth and development, and developing good sleep habits is something [...]

I was recently asked by a new mother when her newborn would learn to soothe himself to sleep. This is a common question in our culture, but it would have been unthinkable until relatively recently in human history. For thousands of generations, babies were carried all day until they could crawl and all children slept [...]

GENERAL COMMENT: Like every baby book I read, I try to keep an open mind. You will NOT find a book that will work for ALL babies but this book worked for mine, who I think is a text book baby. SITUATION: I was going back to work and my baby was super needy at [...]

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 [...]

9 iPhone Apps To Help Soothe You To Sleep I’m a bit of an insomniac and I often have some difficulty falling asleep. Most of the time, it would take me close to an hour to drift off after hitting the bed. That’s a lot of time spent rolling around, not doing anything. I always [...]

Bringing a new baby home from the hospital is a beautiful experience, but it can also be filled with a multitude of anxieties and frustrations. One of the major sources of that anxiety is figuring out how you can get your baby sleeping through the night. When will your baby be sleeping through the night [...]

New parents face many challenges, among them getting a baby to fall asleep and stay asleep. An even greater challenge for some is deciding which advice to follow when well-meaning relatives and friends chime in with their theories about infants and sleep. Picking Up a Baby The question of when and if you should pick [...]

It is best to start training your baby to sleep from birth. When you first bring your baby home from the hospital, start by letting him get used to sleeping through noise. Although you may be tempted, don’t put your baby in a dark, quiet room during every nap. Let him sleep in his playpen [...]