Category: Sleep Training Basics
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Propping Baby Up to Sleep: a Complete and Helpful Guide
When your baby catches their first cold, they really don’t want to sleep laying down – they want to be held or at least propped up to sleep. But can you prop your baby up to sleep safely – when ill or when sleep training? Is it safe? How should you do it? Babies should […]
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What to Do When Your Partner Won’t Sleep Train Baby
A succession of sleepless nights… You’re tired. Your head feels like it’s stuffed with cotton. Performing the simplest tasks is a struggle, and everyone is lashing out for no good reason. You need to get some proper sleep. Sleep training your baby sounds like the best solution, but your partner is not on the same […]
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Get Help Sleep Training Your Baby (for under $10)
When you’re trying to get help with sleep training, it’s frustrating to think that it’s going to cost several hundred dollars. But what if you could get started sleep training for less than $10? There are lower-costing options to get help with sleep training, especially via ebook, free groups, and now via a sleep training […]
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Sleep Training with a Pacifier: a Complete Guide with FAQs
When you’re considering sleep training, it’s always good to think about all the potential pitfalls. Like that binky. Will it help – or will it make sleep training harder? Can you sleep train with a pacifier? Sleep training with a pacifier is possible and doable as long as it’s used safely and appropriately. Ideally, pacifiers […]
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What is Sleep Training (for Babies, Toddlers, Kids)?
The first time I heard the term “sleep training,” I hoped it was something I could do – and that it involved me catching up on sleep. While that’s been a side effect of sleep training my children, that’s not the actual definition. So, what is sleep training? Sleep training is adjusting a child’s sleep […]
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Sleep Training Workbook: 30 Days to Sleeping Thru the Night
Sleep training, while something that we all feel we ought to know, can be so overwhelming that we feel like we need help. Especially when you’re already exhausted from staying up with your new baby. Have you ever wished someone would show you what to do with sleep training already? This free sleep training workbook […]
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Baby Wake Times: a Beginner’s Guide to Wake Windows by Age
One day as I was chatting with other parents about sleep training, one mom asked me what the ideal baby wake times are by age. And because I didn’t have that committed to memory, I decided to do some research for an even more thorough answer. Starting with this: what are baby wake times? Most […]
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How to Recognize and Use Your Child’s Sleep Signs and Cues
Do you know what I think the hardest part of naps and bedtimes are? In my experience, it’s figuring out the timing based on your child’s signs and cues. Because if you can’t get the timing right, naps don’t happen. And then bedtime is painful, drawn-out, and a fight every night. So, how do you […]
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How to Get an Overtired Baby to Sleep
When you’re overtired, it’s like every problem becomes ten times worse, thirty times harder to solve, and emotions are at least fifty times harder to control. Okay, so maybe some of those numbers aren’t quite right. But, when you’re tired, things can get a little out of control quickly, right? So how do you get […]
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How Long Does Sleep Training Take? What You Need to Know
When we were researching sleep training, one of our biggest concerns was how long it would take. We were exhausted and needed help – fast! We needed it to work last week. So how long does sleep training take? Sleep training can be done in about 5-7 days, depending on the method being used. Some […]
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How to Sleep Train Your Baby: a Complete and Helpful Guide
When you’re researching sleep training, it’s easy to get confused – especially because every method touts its own “how-to” recipe for success. Based on extensive research and experience sleep training, here is how to sleep train your baby – a recipe for sleep training success that will work with any and every sleep training method. […]
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Here’s What You Need to Sleep Train (and What You Don’t)
When you’re worried about sleep training, it’s easy to wonder what things you really need – and then to second guess yourself and wonder if you’re getting things you don’t actually need. Sleep training requirements include a positive sleep environment, a plan, knowledge, and qualities like patience, flexibility, and consistency. Backup plans, support, and help […]
