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The Real Reasons Why You Cannot Teach Babies to Self Soothe to Sleep

Posted on April 25, 2016 by

The mainstay of almost all baby sleep training is the idea of teaching ‘self soothing’ or ‘self settling’. This approach believes that if babies are put down ‘drowsy but awake’ and parents do not rush in to feed or rock when they wake, that the baby will learn to settle back to sleep without parental input. Continue reading →

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The Self Soothing Babies who are not Actually Soothing Themselves at all

Posted on November 11, 2014 by

One of the top criticisms I get of my disdain for ‘experts’ who insist that babies should learn to ‘self soothe’ in order to sleep through the night is those who comment “but my baby DOES self settle and I’ve … Continue reading →

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