As parents of babies, we often ask ourselves:
“How to get babies to sleep through the night?”
Many parents believe babies sleeping through the night before 1 is some form of urban legend passed down for centuries by people who say they know someone whose baby sleeps through the night.
Kind of like how pirates used to say they know some guy who saw a mermaid?
Yeah. That kind of urban legend.
Except the jury is still out if any humanoid fish creatures are lurking around in the ocean.
A baby that sleeps through the night by four months old?
100% authentic, possible and attainable.
Nope, not by pure luck, either.
It’s pretty rare to have a baby that naturally takes to sleeping like a boat to the water and needs little to no intervention.
These babies do exist.
However, they are the exception.
The rule is that most babies have to learn to fall asleep independently, without your help, to become healthy long-term sleepers.
Learning how to get baby to sleep through the night is no easy task; I know this.
Adequate baby sleep takes work!
Teaching babies healthy sleep habits will set them up for a lifetime of restful sleep vital to their development as children.
Let me preface this by disclaiming that if nothing is broken, don’t fix it.
Don’t assume these tips because you feel you HAVE to do anything.
If you are happy with your sleeping dynamic and it’s working, nothing can change.
However, If you do want to take steps to help your baby sleep more independently, I can help!
Here is how to get babies to sleep through the night peacefully and soundly.
When Do Babies Start Sleeping Through the Night?
According to Bringing Up Bebe, only in America do babies have fundamental sleep problems and aren’t sleeping soundly all night long before they turn one.
In France, most babies are as they say “doing their nights” by 4 months old or latest 6 months old.
A baby that isn’t “doing there nights” by 8 months old is considered to be experiencing fundamental sleep problems that need to be observed in France.
The French practices take more of a common sense approach to baby sleep, where they give their babies a chance to do their thing before jumping to their rescue at the first sign of a cry every time.
As for us, my daughter has slept 11-13 uninterrupted hours a night since she was 4 months old.
All by herself, in her cozy bed, no sleep regressions, all by herself, every night.
However, she isn’t a robot.
So we still had night wakings where she needed us for teething pain or when she was sick, as to be expected.
She always lets us know when she needs us at night when she isn’t feeling her best, and we are always there to help her.
In fact, it helped us to decipher if something was actually wrong with her vs her just upset she can’t fall back asleep without our help.
Other than that, she loves her sleep!
She wasn’t born like this, though! Most great sleepers are made, not born.
You and your baby don’t have to suffer sleepless nights for years.
Most babies are capable of sleeping through the night before they turn one, granted that there are no fundamental health issues and adjusting for preemies.
Getting baby to sleep independently and confidently takes a lot of planning, dedication, strategy, persistence, hard work, and faith.
None of which is easy but so worth it once your whole family is getting a good, restful, and refreshing night’s sleep.
It is truly unique how much better everyone feels when they get their ZZZs!
Ready to learn how to train baby to sleep?
These are the exact steps I took to teach my daughter independent sleep habits and gave her the confidence she needed to learn to sleep independently for up to 12+ hours.
Establish Your Baby
Temperament
Every baby is unique and different in its genetic makeup and temperament.
I will keep it real; it may not be what many want to hear.
Unfortunately, there are some babies who just repel sleep in every way possible.
Some babies are more challenging to parent and are more strong-willed, spirited, and high-needs than many other babies.
No matter how hard you try, they just don’t sleep through the night or don’t sleep well.
Sleep is incredibly challenging if you have a baby who suffers from colic.
I understand this, and what worked for me may not work for you.
There is no guarantee that we can get the baby to sleep independently or through the night.
We can, however, give it our best go and hope for the best.
If your baby doesn’t fall under the spirited, colic, or strong-willed categories, teaching a baby to sleep through the night is attainable!
Rule Out Any Health Conditions
Before you learn how to get baby to sleep through the night, it is essential to ensure your baby is healthy and that there are no underlying health conditions that could interfere with your teaching ability.
How to get a baby to sleep independently means first out any digestive disorders, acid reflux, gas, feeding problems, or illness will help you feel confident that the baby has all its needs met and is healthy and capable of learning independent sleep habits.
Getting a clean bill of health by your pediatrician and discussing with them your plans to start teaching baby to sleep independently is always a good idea and confidence booster.
Once you’ve received the OK from your doctor to proceed with healthy sleep habit teachings, we have the green light to go!
Let’s do it!
Determine the Age You Want To Start Training Baby to Sleep
This is different for everyone.
Some ambitious folks like to start teaching healthy sleep habits and independent sleep practices from the get go!
Teaching them right from birth!
This however tends to be the more seasoned of moms and it isn’t their first rodeo.
I certainly did NOT start from birth.
I was just straight up trying to survive and get by those first few weeks.
That’s okay if that’s the route you take.
I knew I didn’t want to really start implementing more regular independent sleeping practices until she was around 3 weeks old.
When baby is developmentally ready is dependent on each individual baby, if they were born later or early and their temperament.
Until then, I just did what worked.
A lot of contact naps and shift swapping with my husband since that first week she pretty much only slept on one of us.
I tried not to sweat it those first couple of weeks and just tried to bond with my baby and keep her and myself alive!
Set the Baby Sleep Stage
Establish an Age Appropriate Baby Sleeping Schedule
I know not everyone is keen on schedules but they have been my life line for my daughters life so far.
I used the Huckleberry app to keep track of her sleeping, diaper changes, feeds, all of it.
My husband and I are data junkies and being able to see our daughters habits helped us establish a game plan for when we were ready to teach her independent sleep.
Making sure you have an age appropriate baby sleep schedule with wake windows that aren’t too long or too short will prevent and over or under tired baby.
An under tired baby wont take to sleep well and neither will an overtired baby.
An overtired baby is what we want to avoid at all costs.
Don’t fret too hard though, you will inevitably keep your baby up too long at some point and you will experience the wrath of it and then move on.
You will learn how long is too long for your baby and will get better at avoiding an overtired cranky mess that is impossible to put down.
By tracking your baby’s sleep over the first few weeks, you will start to see a pattern emerge.
You will start to see the most common times of the day where they are consistently napping or awake.
This will make it easier to establish a consistent schedule.
Establish a Consistent Morning Wake Time
I know what you are thinking.
If we want baby to sleep through the night wouldn’t it be better to have a consistent bedtime?
I know, it makes some sense I get it.
But what if I were to tell you a massive component of how to train a baby to sleep all night is by having a predictable and consistent wake time each morning to start the day off the time same every day?
By having a consistent wake time every day, you are setting up your baby to habitually wake up at the same time every day, which creates the foundation for good restful naps.
Good naps lead to even better nights sleep.
When you establish a wake time of let’s say, 7 am, you are creating that internal clock and habit for the baby to take to.
After consistency, baby will naturally wake up at this time every day.
What this does is it sets the stage for predictable nap times each day as well.
Each morning, wake baby up at the same time.
Then, depending on baby’s age, put them down at the following age-appropriate nap time.
Example Wake Time
For instance, if baby is 4 months old and wakes at 7am for the day, this sets you up to put them down for a nap at around 8:15.
This will be the same every day. This will become habitual for baby.
Bedtimes will most likely be the one to change day by day depending on how naps go.
If baby has short naps, bedtime will be earlier to make up for lost naps.
That way the baby can have longer night restorative sleep to make up for the short nap day.
Then wake them up at the same time the next day and try again!
I know it can be challenging especially if baby was up a lot the night before.
All you want to do is desperately sleep in!
However, it is genuinely essential to grin it and bear it and stick to it.
Having a consistent morning wake time is crucial to getting them to sleep longer stretches at night.
If their wake time is all over the place, so will their sleeping habits.
At around three weeks old, I started implementing a 7 am wake time every morning and would aim for an 8:30 bedtime every night.
This was the first step in getting my daughter to sleep through the night. A predictable start and end to the day.
As she got older and her sleep needs would shift, I would adjust her bedtime earlier and earlier.
I did this till she reached a bedtime of 7 pm. A 7-7 night schedule was what worked best for our family.
Get Black Out Shades
Keeping baby’s room as dark as possible for naps and bedtime is SUPER important for baby sleep.
No night lights, no light coming from the window, nothing.
Keeping it as dark as possible will help them connect sleep cycles easier and sleep much longer.
Getting good, quality, thick black-out shades is best.
We have tried going cheaper and getting some basic blackout shades at Walmart with NO success.
It’s worth investing in a baby’s sleep environment if the payout is the baby sleeping all night!
Measure your bay’s windows and buy a pair of blackout curtains to fit.
The ones we use are the NICETOWN Black lined shades.
Not only do they keep our daughter’s room nice and dark, but they also help keep it insulated too.
Keep Baby’s Room Cool
Keeping the baby’s room at a stable, cool temperature is critical.
They can’t regulate their body temperature very well yet. So keeping it balanced and cool keeps them comfortable.
The best temperature to keep the baby’s room at is roughly 68-72 degrees.
We use a Google Nest smart thermostat set at this range so it always keeps our daughter’s room a comfortable temperature.
If you have a regular thermostat, your baby monitor should read the temperature okay give or take a couple of degrees.
Get a Sound Machine
Why It’s Important
You NEED a sound machine.
Sound machines are an essential practice to sleep training babies.
Preferably one that has pink noise instead of white noise.
White noise machines tend to be more high-pitched and static.
Pink noise resembles more of being in a flying plane or blood flow in the womb.
Pink noise has been proven to be more soothing than white noise.
It’s more of a deep humming as opposed to shrill static.
Once we found this out, we switched our sound machine that my husband and I use, and always within five minutes, my husband and I are ready to call lights out!
Pink noise will help drown out any excess noise outside the baby’s room that would otherwise wake them.
It will also help them connect sleep cycles much better with the soothing frequencies reverberating in their room.
Thus, the baby sleeps longer hours.
It is incredibly soothing and doesn’t have to be super loud.
Considering how many hours a day babies sleep, they will spend a lot of time under the sound machine.
Which Sound Machine For Baby is Best?
The one we use for our daughter is the Snooz Sound Machine.
We love it; our daughter sleeps very well with it and is not too loud.
You can create schedules and control the machine from your app.
In my opinion, it’s better than the Hatch sound machine.
It contains a brushless motor that uses up to 98% less energy and has a more organic fan sound to the humming.
Much more soothing than static.
If you want a cheaper option, my husband and I use the Airsee Sound Machine for our room; we love it.
It has numerous pitches ranging from white to brown noise and an array of volumes.
However, it isn’t Wifi or app operable, nor has all the bells and whistles.
It’s just an old-fashioned sound machine with a button to turn off! If this is good enough for you, it is the dupe route.
Whether you want to use white or pink noise, a sound machine is a must when sleep training for babies.
How to Sleep Train Baby
Let Baby Wake You At Night
I never woke up my daughter in the night for feeds.
I didn’t have to. She would always wake up once she was ready to eat.
Since I never woke her up in the night for feeds, she never established a habitual tendency to wake up at those times that would have been scheduled.
It would be different some nights.
Since we implemented this from the get-go, by the time she was 3 months old, she was only waking up once in the night to eat.
She eliminated all her other feeds herself without my help.
She decided if she was hungry and wanted to be fed and decided if she didn’t want any more.
Early on, we would put her down at 8:30, and she would wake up at 11 pm, then 3 am, then 6 am.
So she was roughly waking 3 times per night very early on.
She woke up at these times herself, give or take 15 minutes.
Then one day, when she was 4 weeks old, she slept till 1 am after we put her down at 8:30.
Then she woke at 4, and I would get her up at 7 am.
She started eliminating her feeds on her own.
Follow an Eat, Play, Sleep Foundation
I know some moms might have a hard time with this, especially mothers who nurse babies to sleep.
For many babies, eating comes right before sleep. Many babies are nursed to sleep or bottle-fed to sleep.
Shoot, I was bottle-feeding Annabelle to sleep those first few weeks as well.
Therefore, it tends to come at the end of a wake window to aid them to sleep.
The problem that can arise with this, however is it creates a feed-to-sleep association.
Meaning the baby will develop a habitual preference for falling asleep while nursing or bottle feeding.
What will happen is, that once the baby reaches a more mature sleep cycle, and the baby begins to fully rouse awake in the middle of the night, they are going to need to be fed back to sleep to get back to sleep.
This happens because this is the only way they know how to fall asleep.
This can create a dependency on food to sleep and feel comforted.
Often, giving them unnecessary calories at night that they would otherwise eat during the day but they don’t because they get fed at night.
This makes our jobs harder as parents because, now, when they wake up at night, we don’t know if they are hungry or just can’t fall asleep without it because either way, they fall asleep with it.
We won’t know if they are waking out of hunger or habit.
Prevent the Feed-to-Sleep Association
If you are wondering how to sleep train a baby, preventing the feed-to-sleep association is a fundamental one as they get older.
As we caught our breath, I had no problem doing whatever it took to get my daughter to sleep those first few weeks.
I fed her to sleep, and she slept on us as well.
Once she reached about 3 weeks, though, we stopped feeding her to sleep all together and implemented this routine.
What I love about eating, playing, sleep, is you get to greet the baby with a delicious meal upon waking up.
Everyone loves that!
Not only that, you know they are fed and can keep good, consistent track of feedings.
Also, this will eliminate any association between sleep and getting fed because they are on the opposite ends of the wake window.
I followed this foundation since she was one month old, and I followed it up until she was around 14 months when we dropped formula feeding completely.
Now that she is 18 months, after her one nap, she is greeted with a yummy nutritious snack to munch on.
Worked like a charm.
Eliminate Sleep Associations
Why It’s Important
This one will be a doozy for most of you.
I know it was for us.
However, it is one of the most critical aspects of teaching babies healthy sleep habits.
To help babies sleep on their own unassisted, we need to ditch what we have been doing to help them fall asleep.
Other less common methods like car seat naps and baby swing naps can hinder your babies’ ability to sleep motionless.
Many of us use a few of these tactics all at once to lull our little ones off to dreamland.
I know, I was one of them.
Very early on, it didn’t take a lot to help drift the baby off to sleep.
They aren’t very alert yet, so they can sleep anywhere.
I used to feed her to sleep while rocking her.
Then I would rock her with the Binky in her mouth.
Next, I would sway and bounce her with the Binky in her mouth.
I did this until I found myself taking nearly 25 minutes to get her to sleep, for her to just sleep 25 minutes.
It wasn’t working.
What If You Don’t Eliminate Them?
What happens when we don’t take steps to help baby sleep more independently, those sleep associations may hinder our baby’s ability to fall back asleep without our intensive interference ever time.
Once they reach a particular developmental milestone in their sleep cycles, around four months old, they fully rouse awake at night just like us.
We can fall asleep without someone rocking us and nursing us to sleep.
We don’t need help.
If this is, however what we have been doing for our babies, this is what they will expect every time they wake up.
They will expect to be bounced, rocked, fed, nursed, whatever, back to sleep.
All of these practices are fine to use short-term in those early weeks.
However, I think you may find the longer they are used, the worse baby will sleep and the more dependent they will be on you to soothe themselves to sleep.
This proved to be true with my daughter as well.
Once she was 3- months- old, she just needed to be rocked even longer and longer, swayed longer and longer, and needed her Binky in at ALL TIMES.
God forbid the binky fell out of her mouth and we weren’t right there to put it back in before a meltdown ensued.
We played paci pong, rocking, swaying, and after 30 minutes of this, the second we put her down in her crib, she would rouse back up.
Then the process would start all over again…
Everyone Will Be Tired and Frustrated
What we were doing before wasn’t working nearly as well, creating a dependency on those associations and us to help her relax and sleep.
Almost like a junky.
They create a tolerance where they need more and more for it to work.
I would be swaying and bouncing her, feeling my body just burning and screaming with exhaustion.
I desperately hoped she would just fall asleep after a long, mentally and physically draining day.
This would create frustrations in her because she also needed us to do these things for her.
She couldn’t do it herself.
She wasn’t sleeping very well, so she was cranky and needed more and more soothing.
It was an endless cycle.
Squashing these associations either before or once you start encountering problems is suggested for sure.
Remove the Swaddle
For a baby to be able to self-soothe and sleep independently, you must remove the swaddle.
They need access to their hands to either rub their faces or suck their hands and fingers to relax.
They also need the motor skills to self-soothe.
We ultimately transitioned our daughter out of the swaddle by three months old.
It took about a solid month before she slept un-swaddled in a sleep sack.
This made it much easier for her to find her way of soothing herself and making herself comfortable.
Invest in a Quality Sleep Sack
Which Kind?
There are many sleep sacks to choose from out there. It’s easy to get decision fatigue.
Many people swear by the Nested Bean Sleep Sacks.
You are welcome to go this route.
However, we tried them but found they weren’t outstanding quality.
We always got the proper size, and within maybe a few weeks, the material started stretching, tearing, and unraveling at some seems.
They also made my daughter too hot and weren’t breathable. She would sweat in them, leaving stains on the garment itself too.
Considering they are roughly $40-$50 a pop, it was disappointing that they didn’t last very long.
To be frank, I didn’t even notice a difference in my daughter’s sleep quality either.
We ended up investing in the Dreamland Baby Sleep sack.
It, too, is a weighted sleep sack.
Except for the whole front side of the blanket is weighted, not just a single rice pack on the chest like with Nested Bean.
Why It’s Important
We saw a massive difference in our daughter’s sleep quality with this sleep sack.
We only recently transitioned her out of it at 14 months old since now she loves being mobile during sleeping.
While she was sleeping like a rock, the weighted sleep sack was terrific!
Once she can safely sleep with a loose blanket, we will get her their weighted blanket instead!
I’m not going to lie; it is a hefty investment.
The sleep sack runs at 89 dollars per sack.
I cringed initially.
However, we were willing to buy another weighted sack that was better quality.
We used the after-pay feature and paid it off interest-free after two months.
Worth it.
Are Weighted Sleep Sacks Safe?
The AAP has always poo-pooed weighted sleep sacks. They don’t say why.
Just that they don’t recommend it.
However, this is where Dreamland baby can ease your worries.
Their product was designed in partnership with pediatricians and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurses and has undergone extensive testing and research to ensure its safety.
They give extensive insight into their research studies and processes of safe sleep on their website.
However, you do not NEED to have a weighted sleep sack.
If you are nervous, a sleep sack that is not weighted will suffice fine.
Start Doing Less & Less
Why it’s Important
To help babies learn to fall asleep independently without your help, we need to start helping them to sleep less and less.
The less help they need from you to fall asleep, the more confident and secure they become in their ability to fall asleep alone.
Which does wonders for their overall self-esteem and ability to feel safe and comfortable in solitude which is a vital life skill.
When they know how to fall asleep without all the help, they won’t freak out or panic when they wake up and find they aren’t being rocked in your arms or nursing with you anymore.
How to Do it?
You do not have to do this cold turkey.
Just take one element out at a time.
For example, if you have been nursing while rocking them to sleep, try to gradually eliminate the rocking.
Start rocking baby less while nursing until you stop motion completely.
Once baby has learned to fall asleep without rocking, they are only being nursed to sleep.
Believe it or not, this is progress!
Eliminating sleep associations one by one will lead them to the path of independent sleep!
Then, try to slowly stop nursing by introducing a bottle to substitute the sucking sensation for the baby.
The best bottle that resembles a natural nipple are Lansinoh Bottles.
These are the bottles we used up until she stopped bottle feeding all together.
After that, then switch the bottle for a Binky.
Then, once the baby has learned to fall asleep with just the Binky and no motion, you can start putting the baby down without anything.
This was the route I took with my daughter. When we eliminated the feed-to-sleep association at 4 weeks old, we replaced her bottle with a Binky.
We were rocking her to sleep with the Binky in her mouth. We did this for both naps and bedtime.
After a couple weeks of rocking her to sleep with the Binky in her mouth, we attempted to rock her less and less.
About three weeks later, we attempted to just put her down with the Binky in her mouth with just a couple of light sways, and we would put her down with the Binky in her mouth awake.
We got to the point when she was around 3 months old that we could put her down with just the Binky, wide awake, and she would just suck her Binky to sleep.
The Binky was the last step to full independent sleep.
Put Baby Down Fully Awake
It’s Scary But Necessary
This is the last step to getting a baby to sleep independently and one of the most challenging steps for most parents.
Many parents skip this step out of desperation or a time crunch.
You are welcome to take this route.
It is undoubtedly the quickest route if you don’t want to do it gradually.
If you plan to do it gradually, it is best to start sooner than later.
Since we took the gradual route, our daughter was falling asleep on her own, in her bed, while sucking her Binky without any additional motion.
All we had to do was remove the Binky. This we did cold turkey.
As usual, we had our naps for the day along with our nap routines. It was time for bed, and we finished our bedtime routine.
They May Surprise You
The last step was to put the Binky in her mouth.
This time, I skipped it and just put her straight down.
Looking at the monitor, she was initially confused.
Then, understandably, she got upset.
It never feels good hearing your baby fuss.
She was allowed to be upset because, well, I switched it up on her.
However, rather quickly, something surprising happened.
She found her thumb.
Once she found her thumb, she was peacefully sucking it right to sleep.
Her thumb has officially replaced the Binky.
She no longer has codependency with her Binky anymore, and we no longer have to buy them!
She learned she has the ability to soothe herself!
Wherever she wants without our help!
She learned the skill of falling asleep all by herself!
We were so proud of her. We knew she could do it. Once she found her thumb, the rest was history.
Success!
Continue Night Feeds
Teaching the baby to sleep independently does NOT mean you eliminate night feedings before they are ready.
Unless your pediatrician gave you the okay that your baby is at a healthy enough weight to forgo night feeds.
We had the okay from our pediatrician to stop night feeds altogether when my daughter weighed 12lbs and was 3 months old.
At this point, Annabelle was only waking once, around 3-4 am to eat, and that was it.
She was starting to eat bigger bottles during the day because of it, so she was fully satiated most of the night.
What we found is this.
After we took the Binky away and she learned to suck her thumb asleep, she dropped that last night feed herself four days later.
Yup.
So when Annabelle woke up, I would feed her like I always did. Then just put her back down awake.
Each night she woke up a little later and later.
On the fourth night, we heard her rouse briefly with some cooing.
We checked the monitor and saw her rolling a little and sucking her thumb.
Then, she fell asleep.
She didn’t even cry to be fed.
She simply wasn’t hungry.
By day 5 of dropping the Binky, Annabelle was sleeping from 7 pm-7 am uninterrupted, she was nearly 4 months old.
She felt fine all night and didn’t need to call us.
Stay Consistent & Don’t Give Up
Consistency is key
Anything we do successfully is because we get up every day and keep doing it.
Do your best to press on even when you feel they will never get it; keep going.
By the time Annabelle was 4 months old, she slept 12+ hours without night feeds.
Now at 18 months old (December 2022), we have never experienced any sleep regressions.
She will need our help and call out when she is sick, teething, or taking an unexpected poop.
It took us about 12 weeks of teaching independent sleep habits before Annabelle slept entirely through the night.
I want to emphasize that getting Annabelle to sleep through the night DIDN’T happen overnight.
It took nearly three months of work to get a whole night’s sleep.
It took a lot of planning, strategy, intention and effort to put everything into fruition.
Sleep training babies IS NOT just one day choosing to arbitrarily plop them in their crib and then walking away for the night, and that’s it.
A lot of time, planning, and effort has to be put into getting your baby to sleep through the night.
It won’t happen by accident, and if you don’t want to wait years before your kid sleeps alone uninterrupted, it’s worth teaching your kids how to now.
We are, after all, teachers to our kids.
Just like we have to teach them how to use the potty, many need to be taught how to sleep independently.
Our job is to set the stage for success. The rest is up to them. Set the stage for success for your baby!
Our babies are so intelligent and capable. If we provide them with the tools, they will take them.
I believe they will surprise you!
Great Baby Sleep Takes Work and Sacrifice
Baby sleep constantly evolves and is one of the most challenging quests for parents to navigate.
Even those with great sleepers now had to navigate the tricky waters to sail into calmer ones.
Getting a baby to sleep well is a long process of transition.
I want to emphasize that getting a baby to sleep through the night isn’t a hack or luck but a lifestyle.
There are so many factors outside of sleep specifically that go into getting a baby to sleep.
Teaching babies lifelong sleep habits is hardly the cheat code or shortcut route.
It’s extremely hard and takes a ton of dedication and intention.
For Annabelle’s first year and a half, my life revolved around her routines, naps, and bedtimes.
I felt my job was to set the stage for her to sleep well and grow that first year.
Baby getting restful sleep is vital for their development.
I was willing to sacrifice a lot of my social life to make this work.
Did I get FOMO and miss out?
Yes.
Did I have the one kid I know that slept through the night and slept well for naps by 4-months old?
Also yes.
That was a trade-off I was willing to make.
That first year was so finite and short, that I was willing to put much of my social life on hold to establish healthy sleep habits for my daughter that would last her a lifetime!
Naps and routines won’t last forever.
A child that knows how to sleep independently and happily will, though!
Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain
It takes patience, a lot of faith, a ton of courage, and love in yourself and your baby to get you through it.
Your baby IS smart, your baby IS capable, and your baby CAN learn.
Whatever you decide to do regarding your child’s sleep, as long as you are happy and comfortable with it, and everyone is getting healthy sleep, that’s all that matters.
NONE of these tips are “do this or fail.”
If you enjoy what you are doing right now, it works, and everyone is happy, that is all that matters.
Happy sleeping everyone and take care!
