The Baby Sleep Solution: The stay-and-support method to help your baby sleep through the night

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There is a high degree of repetition, numerous lists and “top tips” that just don’t make up a reasonable structure. She highlights possible issues that you may face along the way (I did encounter some of them) and gives you methods to overcome them.

A Group Leader is a What to Expect community member who has been selected by our staff to help maintain a positive, supportive tone within a group. After reading and using the daily nap and feed schedule and stay and support at night, our now 5 month old is sleeping in her own crib, up to 9 hours in a row at night and 2 full naps during the day with a short 3rd nap later in the day. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Having completed the book it feels like the “stay and support” method is actually unassisted sleep training disguised as “gentle sleep learning”. Group Leaders aren’t expected to spend any additional time in the community, and are not held to a set schedule.Both are a wonderful resource- helping to reassure, give confidence and inform and manage parents’ expectations for their child’s sleep depending on their age and stage. But even with the best routine things can go awry, so in this book Lucy addresses in detail the most common problems that undermine your efforts: short naps, feeding associations at bedtime, early rising and much more. He normally ALWAYS wakes up 35 minutes after bedtime and needs resettling so this is some kind of miracle!

Also, my DD started sleeping through very quickly, so I felt why I am I struggling with this so much even though I’m getting sleep?This practise has helped thousands of parents and babies around the world achieve better sleep, with most parents reporting improvements within the first 7 days of making the changes. He also is such an effort to get to nap too so i feel like he's constantly overtired - despite my best efforts. this was never an issue he just woke up screaming for a bottle from 11pm on) he slept through until 6. And in the outset, there were not nearly as many tears as I anticipated, and because you are there and can comfort and soothe, I didn’t feel too bad about it. After 10 nights of the stay and support approach (which didn't feel cruel) she was sleeping with just one wake for an overnight feed.

We have a very refluxy baby whom we held to sleep for all naps and all nights for four months straight to prevent spit up.Group Black's collective includes Essence Opens a new window, The Shade Room Opens a new window and Naturally Curly Opens a new window. He's waking up upset multiple times a night and definitely not hungry as sometimes it is after 10 minutes/ 15 minutes/ half and hour and an hour. The narrators voice drew me in instantly - calm, reassuring and non patronising unlike many other parenting books, this is an easy listen and SO useful in establishing day and night routines for better sleep. However, I'll be going back to work soon and my 9 month olds sleep is still difficult (waking every 1. The dry script is utterly humourless except for one reference to chocolate bars and makes for a droning listen.

Baby was playing in the cot, there were some protests, but slowly they died down and after 20min the baby was asleep. hey ye he wakes at 5am but I make sure he doesn’t go back for his nap until 9am I know it’s a long time but it’s to try and push the early wakings, it’s just Killing me because of my 3 year old I wouldn’t care otherwise like I’d deal with it as best I could but u it’s just hard, he does 9am nap then 1. I used Lucy Wolfe starting around the same age and I just worked on not feeding until 2am (I knew mine could go 5 hours as she had several times before) and using her method for any wakings previous. I think it worked because he understood 'mummy has gone now, time to sleep' whereas when I was there he was thinking 'why is she hanging around, is she going to get me up? She has specific training and certification for children aged four to five months, with continued studies in Parent Mentoring and Relationship Studies (UCC).

As a written reference book to keep at hand while you go through the process of dealing with sleep issues, absolutely spot on. Think we definitely need to find the best time for putting her down when she's not over tired, the 4 hour gap seems just a bit long for her just now. She contributes to various radio shows as well as print and online publications including the Irish Independent Mothers and Babies , Pregnancy and Parenting , Maternity and Infant Magazine , Mums and Tots and Easy Parenting . I could try water for one of those to see if that helps, although I can imagine that I'd have a really angry baby haha. hours during the night) and will only feed back to sleep and I just don't feel I'll be able to function at work!