Sleep and Your Child's Temperament.

Unfortunately you can expect a regression around a week after either starting the sleep training or around a week after you’ve seen results from the sleep training. Understand that this is just part of the process and it doesn’t mean that the sleep training didn’t “take” or that there’s something really wrong.

When your child goes to sleep - both for naps during the day and at night - at the same time each day, her circadian rhythm is regulated.

method is most appropriate for an Easy Child. It is not appropriate for a Difficult Child and should be used with caution if your child is Slow-To-Warm-Up.

The Mommy-I-Need-You-Now cry (MINYN) indicates your child has crossed the border from ordinarily unhappy to out of control. Infants cannot walk themselves back from this emotional cliff and need your help to calm themselves. If you do not intervene, they will sob until they fall asleep from exhaustion, which is not a good thing. Recognize the MINYN

Night One may not be quite as bad as you thought it would be but Night Two will be more like you expected: it will be a bit worse than Night One. By Night Three there should be some real improvement. Within a week you should be feeling pretty good about all this.

inconsistency isn’t fair to your child. It's not fair to make your child feel frustrated (as sleep training almost inevitably does) and then give in after his frustration reaches a peak. This would be very annoying if it happened to you and it makes sleep training take much longer than it should. Your child will think he has to be frustrated for a

Studies done on sleep training techniques have found that no technique works better than any other as long as you are consistent. Consistency is key. You also don’t want your child thinking if she cries long enough the “good” parent will come and give her what she wants. Make sure both parents are on the same page.

Being overtired makes falling asleep almost impossible. There is actually a window of time when a sleepy person can fall asleep. Bypass that window, though, and the person gets a “second wind.” Your child may seem to be running on fumes - crabby, nasty fumes - but still motoring full tilt. It seems to be a design flaw to me. You would think the mor

Modified Cry-It-Out requires attention to the clock. You likely will find that using a timer helps here. It also assumes that your baby will soothe quickly when you go to her - an assumption that may not be true at all. This method also works best for Easy babies and less well (or not at all) for Difficult babies. Slow-To-Warm-Up children might res