Many families find them selves at the 6 month mark, with a waking all night and non napping baby. You consider sleep training, but then you wonder if it will just work itself out and magically your baby will break all of their bad sleep associations and start sleeping 11-12 hours a night and taking a nap easily.
Read MoreGreat question! We all know that at some point our newborn, who seems to have no schedule at all will eventually begin to have a schedule around 3 months of age. For most babies ( there are exceptions) they will settle into a three nap routine during their day.
Read MoreThe simple answer is no, not if you do not want to. However, a few factors come in to play here. How old is your baby? Is their weight gain on track?
If you are wanting to sleep train you can have a dream feed around 10:30pm, but will not need any additional feeds.
Read MoreWhen your baby has arrived and you are done with your postpartum help, what comes next? Well, sleep training comes next! Some babies are great sleepers and when they hit a developmentally appropriate age to sleep 11-12 hours a night ( 4-6 months) they do, but many babies are terrible sleepers and suddenly you find your baby is 6 months old and still waking 3-5 times a night.
Read MoreAre you in the cycle of the “pick up, put down” “ gentle sleep solutions that seems to involves weeks of crying” “ no -cry sleep solutions that either don’t work or have a LOT more crying than you expected” “ Pick up, put down, walk away, walk back, rock in the dark with the wind song on”… you get the point.
Read MoreWe expect mothers to do it all. That includes the mental load of running the house, working out side of the home (or staying home and managing things), AND most of the night time care for your baby.
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