How Crying Can Lead to Babies Sleeping

How Crying Can Lead to Babies Sleeping

A lot of times parents don’t understand how crying can ever lead to their baby sleeping. They think that they will certainly exhaust themselves and fall asleep that way, eventually, but what are they really learning? This article is NOT about cry it out. There is a LOT in between helping your baby back to …

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Knowing When You’re Done Sleep Training

How Do You Know When You're Done Sleep Training?

How do you know when you’re done sleep training? Read & find out how you’ll know when you’re done sleep training your baby or toddler.

Why Does Baby Wake Up Crying?

Why does baby wake up crying? Most often, a baby wakes up crying to eat, because they are wet or dirty, or to have their sleep association recreated (such as replacing a pacifier). But, what does it mean when your baby wakes up crying from a nap, or in the morning when they are “done” …

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Cry It Out: Age, Method Explained, and How to Do It Safely

cry it out

Cry It Out is a sleep training method that gives babies space to learn how to sleep in longer stretches at night and take longer naps. Cry It Out is also called Extinction or Controlled Crying. There are a variety of ways to implement it. Is cry it out right for you? If so, at …

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Cry-it-Out to Wean from Breastfeeding?

I breastfed my first son for 13 months and am still breastfeeding my second (he’s now 5 1/2 months as I’m writing this). As I’ve said before, we also used a crying sleep training method with my first and a no-cry sleep training method for my second (so far). They are just two very different …

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Will Cry-It-Out Change Your Baby / Child’s Personality?

Will Cry-It-Out Change Your Baby / Child's Personality?

I happened upon an article where a woman and husband were against cry-it-out. Specifically, The Ferber Method. They ended up doing it anyway because it was what worked. In that article, Confessions of a Ferberizer, she said that, in the end, her son stopped wanting to be rocked or cuddle. She did not seem to …

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Sleep Training (From No Cry to Cry) Series – Part 5: Check and Console

Sleep Training Series part 5

This article will outline two sleep training methods, including “Check and Console,” which is what many people know as “The Ferber Method”. If you are just joining in, you may want to start from the beginning at Part 1 of my Baby Sleep Training (From No Cry to Cry) series. You may be interested in …

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Sleep Training (From No Cry to Cry) Series – Part 1 – Bedtime Routines

Sleep Training Series part 1

Today, I will start a series of posts outlining the variety of sleep training methods that I recommend. I will post them in order from no (or very little) crying to the most (potential) crying. There are many variations to these methods, so I am only going to highlight the main gist of each method. …

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Is Sleep Training Cry It Out?

In today’s article, The Baby Sleep Site® founder and expert sleep coach Nicole Johnson answer this common question: Is there a difference between sleep training and cry it out? ~~~ I thought I should first talk about my philosophy on helping your child learn healthy sleep habits. Sleep Training I don’t define "sleep training " …

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