This method requires patience, but will eventually train the child to sleep on their own. Once the child is soothed but still awake, then they put down (and repeat). In the first, parents stop, wait, and listen until their child is upset, then they pick up to soothe. If the stress of a wailing infant is intolerable, try more gentle methods like the “pick-up-put-down” or “chair” methods. If you allow your child to cry-it-out, your child will learn to self-soothe and put themselves to sleep in about three to five nights. Then, choose a method to sleep training: cry-it-out, pick-up-put-down, or the chair method. First, stick to a bedtime ritual of soothing lights and sounds, a bath, or song. Her advice for new mothers is to “sleep train” your infant by establishing strict schedules. Maggie says that most parents fall into unhealthy “sleep crutches” like rocking or feeding (or swinging or driving or co-sleeping) their babies to sleep. “Children are a healthy addition to the family, not the center of it,” Dr.
That means that your infant is in their own bed sleeping six to seven hours a night by 8 weeks old so that you can sleep, too. Lane firmly believes in establishing healthy sleep hygiene in infancy so that the entire family can function properly. How do you expect to discipline or parent effectively in that state? We need to be thinking parents, not reactionary ones - and you can’t do that unless you are sleeping.”ĭr. “When you are sleep deprived, you are practically drunk: you are forgetful, irritable, unhealthy, and make poor decisions. Christina (Christy) Lane of Growing Kids Pediatrics, says. “Sleep is important for good family dynamics,” Dr.
Her business, Moore Sleep, now offers sleep consultations via phone, internet, or in-person to families of new children or multiples. Maggie was so inspired by this life-changing experience that she decided to enroll in The Family Sleep Institute’s sleep consultant certification program to help other desperate families get their lives back. Soon, her depression became manageable, her marriage returned to normal, and she began to gain confidence in her ability to parent. And within three days following her sleep training protocol, her son was sleeping through the night. At 16 weeks, Maggie hired an international sleep consultant over the internet. There were none available in the Kentuckiana area. She sought the help of a sleep consultant but came up empty-handed. The lack of sleep was making my depression worse, and I knew I had to do something,” Maggie explains. “My husband and I had been sleeping in shifts. After four months of this exhausting dance, both parents sleep-deprived and Maggie in the depths of postpartum depression, Maggie said it was enough. She and her husband would take turns rocking and swinging and bouncing and swaddling and driving desperately around town in an attempt to get their prodigal son to rest. And then her son was born, and he would not sleep. Motherhood, she assumed, would be a joyous and magical experience - the climax to a perfect story.
Maggie Moore had a loving marriage, the perfect pregnancy, and an easy delivery.
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