You just can’t take it anymore. The exhaustion, the bleary eyes, the waking-up-more-times-each-night-than-you-thought-humanly-possible...you’ve had it! “Enough is enough!” you’ve said to yourself. It's time to take action. It's time to reclaim your nights. This, readers, is the point at which many parents first visit the Baby Sleep Site. They’re beyond exhausted. They know their babies are waking more frequently than is necessary, but they just don’t know how to make the night waking
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Your Real Goals In Baby Sleep Training (Hint: It’s Not Sleep!)
Surprise! We've had to sleep train our son (the one who inspired this website)...again! Can you believe it? Well...actually, I've stopped calling it "sleep training" and think more of it as teaching him new habits when the ones he's established aren't working anymore. And, this has changed over time. Last week, we talked about how inertia can keep you from sleep training and the discussion was interesting. One commenter suggested that perhaps night-waking is normal and there really isn't a
How Inertia Can Make You Put Off Sleep Training for Months (or Years!)
Inertia. Remember that word from your high school physics class? (If you’re shaking your head, don’t worry -- I didn’t remember it, either!) For those of us who slept through physics in school, a little refresher course may be in order. What's Inertia, Anyway? My eyes tend to glaze over when I start hearing technical terms, so let me give you a basic definition: inertia means that if something isn’t moving, it’ll continue not moving until something or someone moves it. Inertia also