Sentences with phrase «on sleep crutches»

If you have a baby / child who is older than 6 months with no precluding medical issues, who is waking frequently through the night, takes a long time to settle or go to sleep, who relies on sleep crutches to go to sleep every time they wake, and — this is the critical factor — you as the parent are wanting to change this behavior, but do not feel able to do it alone, you may want to consider hiring a sleep trainer.

The older your baby is, the more resistance you are likely to be met with, as older babies have had longer to learn habits and often rely on sleep crutches to get them to sleep.

-LSB-...] resist the urge to fall back on a sleep crutch.

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That is like criticizing someone for sleeping... they have to rely on that whole «well rested» crutch.

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If your baby is not sleeping at night (or during naps), it's okay to rely on your baby's nap sleep crutch to ensure that your child gets enough naps at the right times of the day.

I suggest that you continue to use the naptime sleep crutch and create a flexible schedule that includes your baby's naptimes, so that your baby is getting quality daytime sleep while you are focused on night coaching.

I just can't seem to get her to go back to sleep in the am unless we pat her to sleep (we don't do that anymore because it had become a sleep crutch) and she has yet to go back to sleep on her own... she gets up once a night at 1ish for a quick meal and gets put back in her crib awake.

Any new pattern that he comes to depend upon for going to sleep could become a new sleep crutch that you will need to wean him off of later on.

And on top of it, he is saying to you, «you know what, my crutch isn't working», because sometimes, giving him a bottle to sleep doesn't work and then you have to rock him.

Try not to throw out all your gains and try not to rely on whatever sleep crutch you've just eliminated.

Go to his cribside to check on him and make sure all is well — just be sure not to restart an old sleep crutch during this check.

As confused, sleep - deprived parents, we desperately need explanations for our infants» strange developments, and teething is a convenient crutch — but it's one that we may rely on too often.

This part of the exhibition opens with Salvador Dalí's iconic and rarely seen painting Sleep, 1937, featuring a giant disembodied head, held precariously aloft on the «crutches of reality».