![]() Don’t feel bad, MANY smart & talented people get tripped up by this. If the last step in your bedtime routine is a nice nursing session or a bottle you’re inadvertently reinforcing the eat=sleep association. People often ask me, “how awake is awake enough?” The answer is, if you’re still seeing the pattern in the chart above, it’s not awake enough. You’re baby until they’re MOSTLY asleep.There are a number of sleep associations that can result in this pattern but here are the most common ones: In a nutshell, you managed to teach your baby to fall asleep but you still have a niggling sleep association that is tripping you up. ![]() Although I would vastly prefer the million dollars. For one MILLION dollars, MMWWWWAHAHAHAHAHA! And while I’ve used “feeding” as the root issue in the example here, it’s certainly not the only issue that can trip you up. Here’s a chart that depicts a common night sleep pattern. ![]() It takes increasingly more involved intervention to get baby to fall back to sleep until you simply can’t, which often results in a “awake too early” issue.While you may try to coax baby back to sleep with various techniques, generally there is only one thing that will work reliably.There may be brief periods (10-20 minutes) of crying here and there.There is a longer stretch of sleep in the beginning of the night but things get progressively worse as the night goes on.Bedtime is a relatively smooth affair where baby is falling asleep on their own.And like a Baskins-Robins from hell “not great” comes in many different flavors but typically it looks something like this: Is this the success you worked so hard to achieve? You did what you were supposed to do, so why are you still struggling with sleep? Sleep Training but No Sleep? Because it’s been 10 months since you slept for more than 3 consecutive hours and you’re starting to hallucinate and your partner, who had a lush head of hair a year ago, is now entirely bald. But at 10 months you were hoping for better. ![]() Maybe you’ve gone from nursing baby every hour to only nursing 4 times a night. Maybe not like she was before, but it’s certainly not the fantastic transformative sleep experience that the “Sleep Training” brochures promised you. Victory is yours! The gates of Valhalla are now open to you as you join your fellow Sleep Warriors! You have successfully gotten your baby to fall asleep without you! The battle cry of the Valkyrie pours forth from your lips! You pour a drink and begin the dance of victory!īut what’s this? Your baby is still waking up a lot. After weeks, nay MONTHS of struggle, you have finally mastered the challenge of putting baby down awake. ![]()
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