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"You should follow your baby's cues to tell you they are tired"

I'm sorry... what does that even mean???

What mom has the time to sit there and stare at their baby to watch their eye brows grow pink or for them to yawn.

Are we also acting like your baby KNOWS when they are tired and is going to tell you?

I find that these cues that sleep consultants rave about are not only challenging to follow, but they are so misleading.

If your baby is showing you that they are tired chances are you already missed the boat on them falling asleep easily!

*Cue the hour long session of you having to rock them down to sleep while they are fighting it*

This is because they are now not only tired - but wired which makes it even harder for them to fall asleep peacefully.

If you want your baby to get to the point where going down isn't such a battle, nap times are consistent every day, and you feel like you actually got a long break during it, you need to use a personalized routine tweaked to your own child that teaches them to fall asleep independently.

Your baby wakes up 1 or 2 times at night for a feed

It’s really not bad!!

But day time is a completelyyyyy different story. 😫

You can barely get baby to sleep past 30 minutes without having to hold them the rest of the nap.

But that’s OK right??? At least you have one thing going for you!

WRONG!

Your baby CAN have both long naps and long nights

But you settling for crap naps never going to make that happen

Sleep is an overall balance of night AND day sleep.

They don’t just compensate for one another and round up.

Instead of accepting 30 minute naps...

You need a plan that will teach your baby how to fall back asleep without any habits so you can watch them nap away while you get things done around the house that you have been pushing off.

“This is not cry it out” 🙄

“This is the gentlest approach with minimal tears” 🙄

If anyone is claiming that their program is the most peaceful and won’t require your child many tears...

They are lying. 😂

NO ONE can guarantee how your baby will react to making changes.

In fact... it's normal for your child to cry during the process.

All they know right now when they wake up in the middle of the night is TO cry.

Maybe they're crying as when you rock them back down for an hour.

A lot of these “gentle” and “gradual” methods set you to feel like it’s going to be the gentlest and easiest route

All this does is catches you off guard when things don't go to plan.

9/10 of my clients have tried 1 or more gentle sleep methods before coming to me

What they found??

It made their children cry the same (if not MORE) and it only left them feeling lost.

Have kids successfully used "no cry" plans before?

Sure! You know how much time and energy that takes... months and they are still patting baby to sleep.

I don't know of a mom who has enough time and mental energy for that.

All for them to get a mere 7-8 hour stretch and still be working on dropping a night wake.

Instead, you need a plan that prepares you to handle the tears properly so that you can feel confident and commit and your baby can be falling back asleep even faster without prolonging the process.

Not to act like no cry methods are realistic or sustainable.

You’ve lost count how many times you've run into your baby's room to pop in the pacifier

But you keep doing it because you heard it was good and that's the only way they will get down

So here we go again

But let’s unpack this…

Do pacifiers prevent SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?)

Here’s what we DO know about SIDS…
✅ We DON’T truly understand the cause yet of SIDS.
✅ Therefore... nothing has been proven to prevent SIDS.
✅ We DO know that you can follow the ABC’s of Safe Sleep to bring your baby’s risk down to baseline.
✅ This means that your baby is alone, on their back, in an empty, flat crib.

There have also been 3 protective measures that have been found to further protect your baby against SIDS.

✅ This means room sharing in a separate sleep space, breastfeeding, and pacifier use

BUT A really important thing to note….

🛑 Studies have shown that using more than 1 of these does NOT decrease the risk.

So if you breastfeed or room share, pacifier use doesn’t have any affect.

You should also note that using it is a protective, not preventative.

If it won’t stay in their mouth and they aren’t even able to use it they are NOT at an increased risk of SIDS. 👍

So you don’t have to feel obligated to walk back in and pop it in for the 34th time.

Instead, guide baby to soothe themselves to sleep without needing someone else to provide a peice of plastic all night long.