Infant sleep training

But, you know, young parents, maybe parents who have had their first child, but the second is so different.

What are some tips and tricks to manage? Are we to, you know, do sleep training and ignore them screaming? Are we to go to them? What's your advice as a pediatrician?

This is a tough one.

And the moment you mentioned sleep, I just kind of went, oh, boy, this is...

Also, I had two.

They're now both off to university, but...

I did the sleep training in both cases, and it was hard.

It was tough.

What's she doing?

She's, like, not sleeping properly, so we're doing sleep training at the moment.

So, like, first week we got the cot, put her in the cot.

She was sleeping well.

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But he just was like, "You know, take it slow.

Do whatever modifications you can because crying it out is not gonna be, or even allowing her to cry a lot is not gonna be great for her airway, right?" And so we did, and it, it honestly wasn't as bad as I had anticipated it to be.

I knew sleep training worked.

I had worked with families in the past as a nanny, and I, the kids were sleep trained, and I just was like, wow, this is, I mean, it's a miracle.

And Brittany gives a lot of really good information and really good tips on this subject, and I'm gonna be following literally all of them.

I'm gonna tell you right now, we are not planning to follow any sleep schedule or, uh, sleep training method whatsoever.

We're planning to co-sleep.

Um, we're planning to breastfeed.

Um, okay, so you say that we don't need to do literally anything to create this sleep environment aside from a good surface and you, right? And warmth.

Um, but do you ever need to sleep train your kids? Because, you know, is, is...

I think people hear like, oh, no sleep training, and they're like, "Oh, my 14-year-old son's gonna be sleeping with me?" [laughs] You know? He won't be able to sleep in his own room.

And that's genuinely where people's mind go.

Gabby, what's up with you?

You guys, I love sleep training.

I love it.

It's the best thing ever.

important context.

I have a nine-year-old.

I'm not sleep training myself.

So what

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the good advice of sleep training them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You want a longer stretch of sleep, but you don't want to take away something your baby truly needs.

Today we're talking about what to consider before changing night feeds, why sleep training doesn't automatically mean night weaning, and where to start when you're tired of guessing.

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If your baby or toddler isn't sleeping and you're exhausted, overwhelmed, and stuck in survival mode, you're in the right place.

You can want to meet their needs and still think, "I can't keep doing this.

I'm gonna lose my mind.

I'm so, so tired, and my baby is so tired, too." The question is, what does my baby actually need overnight, and how can we make a plan that meets those needs while helping our family get more rest? The first point I want to make here, though, is that sleep training and night weaning are two different decisions, and sometimes they go hand in hand.

Oftentimes, I have clients with babies that are five months, six months, seven months, and maybe they still need a feed or two in the middle of the night.