No-Cry Sleep Training For Babies and Toddlers

Does the term “sleep training” conjure up images of wailing babies and agonized parents? If so, then I hope what I’m about to say next will help paint a different picture for you: sleep training does not have to involve hours of crying. Sleep training does not have to mean you listening to your baby …

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Why Pantley’s No Cry Sleep Solution Doesn’t Always Work

Sometimes I hear from parents who have tried Pantley’s No Cry Sleep Solution and have not been able to get it to work. This article will discuss possible reasons why sometimes it doesn’t work for a variety of families. First, let me say that Pantley’s book The No Cry Sleep Solution has a lot of …

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Will Your Baby Be Spoiled If You Don’t Sleep Train?

Will Your Baby Be Spoiled If You Don't Sleep Train

Will your baby be spoiled if you do NOT sleep train? We hear this question circling around often. In fact, a client e-mailed me not too long ago concerned about what a co-worker told her about her baby. Her co-worker told her that if she didn’t sleep train and let her baby cry it out, …

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How Sleep Training Progress Looks

How Sleep Training Progress Looks

When parents update me on their sleep training progress, sometimes it is a little frustrating for them if their baby has a good night one night, then a bad night and some back and forth. I thought it would be a good idea to talk about that in today’s post and why it happens. If …

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Can You Mix Attachment Parenting With Sleep Training?

Can You Mix Attachment Parenting With Sleep Training?

Before I had a baby, I did not know anything about “attachment parenting” nor had I ever heard the term. It is a little “weird” considering I am an avid reader (well, before kids and this website when I used to have time). I guess none of my friends ever mentioned it and I was …

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Sleep Training (From No Cry to Cry) Series – Part 3

In this sleep training series, so far I’ve talked about the importance of a bedtime routine and gone over how you can sleep train while co-sleeping. In part 3 of this series, I will be discussing the “fading” method of sleep training. Fading, The Method This method I would consider one of the no-cry (or …

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

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

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