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Maddy Thompson

Maddy Thompson

Maddy Thompson is a Level 6 qualified paediatric sleep practitioner and children's social worker, founder of Balanced Bedtime Sleep Consultancy in the UK.

Sep 25, 2026

32:15
Do you have methods that you go, oh, this one will suit you? Or do you literally look at how you're changing their day?
32:22
So if we go through kind of some of the approaches, you've got at one end, what people would call cry it out or the extinction method, where a child is put down and the parent doesn't return in response to crying.
32:36
And then you've got those approaches that involve time check-ins that are often called controlled crying, where the parent returns at particular timed intervals to then check in with the child.
32:48
Then on the other side, you've got the more gradual responsive approaches.
32:53
So you might use gradual retreat, for example, where the parent initially stays very close.
32:59
That could be that they've got a mattress on the floor next to the cot.
33:03
It could be they're sitting in a chair and then gradually changes the level of involvement as their child is more comfortable with the new arrangement.

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