Your commitment and ability to stay
consistent during sleep training is key to success and ease for your child, as this is what makes the Gentle Sleep Coach method most successful.
❍ Be consistent Although many families falter a few
times during sleep training, try to remember that if you do give in and feed or rock your baby to sleep after a prolonged interval of crying, his crying has been for naught.
Rachel made herself available to me, both by phone and by email, to address my questions and concerns, and adjusted our plan as
necessary during sleep training.
It is not just the obvious and overt stress that the baby (and the mother) experiences from mother's
unresponsiveness during sleep training but the potential long - term effects of tampering with these biologically and evolutionarily normal patterns of sleep, breastfeeding and parental soothing that prevented me from ever considering sleep training as something to be implemented.
This was an intentional choice, since I'd wager that sharing the sleep duties just might be the most important thing a man can do for his
partner during sleep training (or before or after or in between).
Yet unfortunately what many women hear is that their baby should be sleeping through, that babies need to learn how to sleep longer, fall asleep without breastfeeding and that the crying or «protesting»
during the sleep training is what we are supposed to do.
Not giving it to
her during the sleep training was the best thing we ever did!
1 of them stopped using
it during sleep training at 7 months, another at 18 months and the other 2 stopped at the 2 - 1/2 year mark.
During sleep training we stopped popping it in every 5 minutes and within 2 nights it was a thing of the past.
During sleep training we give up on continually replacing the soother that inevitably falls out of their mouth all night, and they all learned how to self soothe.
During sleep training we give up on continually replacing the soother that inevitably falls out of...