We\u2019ve had prob\u00adlems with get\u00adting the baby (now 10 months) to sleep prop\u00aderly dur\u00ading the day, and when she also star\u00adted wak\u00ading more often dur\u00ading the night I decided I had to fig\u00adure out an answer. Our first child slept read\u00adily, took sched\u00adule vari\u00adations in his stride, and so it was a big shock when our second child was com\u00adpletely dif\u00adfer\u00adent. We tried put\u00adting her on vari\u00adous routines, but could\u00adn\u2019t find one that worked until recently (yay! sleep!). Giv\u00aden that lots of searches on my blog are about how to get babies to sleep, and the vast num\u00adber of books out there on the sub\u00adject, I fig\u00adure some oth\u00ader people might be inter\u00adested in the sub\u00adject. The rest of you will undoubtedly have already tuned out by now.<\/p>\n
I got heaps of books out of the lib\u00adrary, but can only recom\u00admend two. Some of the books seemed to be writ\u00adten along the lines of \u201cthis worked for me, I don\u2019t know why, maybe it will work for you too\u201d and per\u00adson\u00adally I prefer an approach that has a little more research to it. I\u2019m not going to talk about the books I read and did\u00adn\u2019t like since oth\u00ader people may find them use\u00adful; I\u2019m just going to review the two books I liked best.<\/p>\n
If your baby is young, you could try The Hap\u00adpi\u00adest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Cry\u00ading and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer<\/a>, which looked like it had some use\u00adful tips. I would\u00adn\u2019t both\u00ader with it if your baby is more than about 6 months old though.<\/p>\n The book I liked a lot, and even bought, is Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child<\/a>, which con\u00adtains a lot of inform\u00ada\u00adtion, includ\u00ading some research into how long chil\u00addren sleep at vari\u00adous ages, a strict routine (which really suits our baby but would\u00adn\u2019t have been neces\u00adsary for our first child), and dis\u00adcus\u00adsions about what to do as the child gets older in terms of chan\u00adging the sleep and nap routine. A lot of people may find the advice to let the baby cry harsh \u2014 you do have to be able to recog\u00adnise the vari\u00adous types of cry your baby makes so you can respond to fear or dis\u00adcom\u00adfort while ignor\u00ading the baby when she\u2019s annoyed. It worked very well for us (at least so far and we\u2019ve been on the sched\u00adule for a week) and we not only have our happy baby back, I\u2019m also catch\u00ading up on sleep. Get\u00adting up at 6:30 am every morn\u00ading is a bit of a change, but not being woken up at 11 pm, 2 am, and 5 am more than makes up for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019ve had prob\u00adlems with get\u00adting the baby (now 10 months) to sleep prop\u00aderly dur\u00ading the day, and when she also star\u00adted wak\u00ading more often dur\u00ading the night I decided I had to fig\u00adure out an answer. Our first child slept read\u00adily, took sched\u00adule vari\u00adations in his stride, and so it was a big shock when \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cSleep\u00ading Babies\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}