Sleep and Your Child's Temperament.

Teaching your child to sleep is important. If your child is over nine months old and is still having trouble falling asleep on her own or is waking and needing your attention many times a night, then you are both sleep deprived. By taking the little time it takes to sleep train your child, you are actually setting her up for better health as a chil

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.

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

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.

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

The best way to deal with regression is just as you did the first night of sleep training. You’re a pro at this by now so just pretend you’re starting over. Regression usually lasts one or two nights. Don’t give up and don’t switch to a new method.

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

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.