Parents need Baby Sleep Learning

The old chestnut raises it's head once more - Controlled Crying. Why oh why are we still talking baby sleep training? Parents need Baby Sleep Learning (BSL). It's a gentler way of helping babies sleep.

http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/does-controlled-crying-really-work-20150220-133tf9.html

There is little or no crying. It's extremely gentle and promotes healthy sleep habits with no need to do sleep training. At all. Ever.

It's a preventative health model.

In the UK working as a Community Specialist Nurse Practitioner I visited all new parents weekly. From two to eight weeks, for FREE from the good old NHS. Supporting parents, educating and helping them with baby sleep. I can count on one hand how many babies/children I sleep trained.

Fast forward to Australia 15 years later and how much sleep training? Way too much.
Parents don't know about preventing sleep problems. Instead they are told to hold and feed to sleep and 'do what you have to do'. Parents have a treatment model of health.

What sort of plan is that long term?

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Some parents may want to hold and feed their babies to sleep, and that's OK. But what if you were given a choice and another option? Would you like an option of a baby who could self settle?

Here's an article worth reading on "The price of rocking your baby to sleep: Infants take note of what is going on as they drop off and then want the same thing"

I see many distressed parents, upset babies, relationship stress and postnatal depression. More than I ever saw in England and Melbourne (Australia) and it needn't be like this.

When I started work in Community Health in NSW I was actively discouraged by my nurse manager from educating and helping parents manage their babies sleep. I was told "I had other things to do and I had to fill the form out, fax it off to sleep school (Tresillian or Karitane)". I couldn't believe it. I'd spent 3 years working in Melbourne in Community Health Outreach as an Enhanced Home Visiting Nurse and it didn't happen there.

I find the crying of sleep training older babies distressing and it's unnecessary.

This system is broken and it needs fixing.

I'm on a mission. And I'm going to give parents better options if they'd like them.

I'm busy writing my second book on sleep. It will be out very soon. My methods are very gentle and there is no controlled crying. Learn more about my methods at this link: https://nurtureparenting.com.au/baby-sleep-training-gentle-methods/

So if you need help what can you do right now?

Follow me on Facebook if you haven't already - https://www.facebook.com/NurtureParenting.BabySleepGuru/

If your baby is under 3 months read the 16 pages dedicated to baby sleep learning in my ebook - Help I'm a new mum and I don't know what to do.

Get free advice by asking me a question during my frequent Facebook live sessions. Here's a link to one of my recent Q&A sessions.

Contact me for one on one help at https://nurtureparenting.com.au/contact-us/
Have a read of the many articles on my blog with some you can start with below.

With my medical training, I've worked with many parents to resolve medical and behavioural sleep issues. Read one of my many case studies here: Complex medical cases and sleep training

You can access my 3 decades of experience as a registered midwife and child and family health nurse via the Nurture Sleep Program. You can take your baby from sleepless to slumber in up to 7 easy lessons across 3 age groups once you join.

https://nurtureparenting.com.au/nurture-sleep-program

? FOODS that promote baby sleep
⏰ ROUTINE: easy, flexible, sleep-ready
? ENVIRONMENT: getting it right
?? DEVELOPMENT: changes, how these affect sleep
? SLEEP METHODS: secret tips that will change your life

It will stop the guesswork and give you:
✅ A tried and tested approach (20 years of helping families with baby & toddler sleep)
✅ Evidence-based
✅ Gentle baby sleep methods
✅ Holistic assessment
✅ Nurture & Nourish nutrition program – all recipes have sleep-inducing ingredients and a perfect balance for a good nights sleep
✅ Access to a closed Facebook group for one on one support from Karen and 90+ timecoded Facebook Live videos
✅ Prevention for under 4 months so no need to do sleep training ever
✅ And all at a low $97 for a very limited time

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Karen really understand Toddler Behaviour

I have been going to Karen since my daughter was 7 weeks old. Even through her toddler years, Karen has been spot on and has helped immensely with toddler behaviour related questions. Karen guided me through potty training issues and how to best navigate them based on my strong willed child.

Nurture Parenting - knowledgeable, supportive and gentle

Karen was understanding, kind and supportive with clear strategies to help improve our toddlers sleep. She explained what was happening and gave us a plan to follow. This is the second child we have used Karen’s methods with and I would recommend Nurture Parenting to any parents wanting to better understand their babies sleep and gently help them to self soothe and sleep better.

After buying Karen’s newborn program and successfully using it on baby 2, i decided to start even earlier with baby 3. I got a little confused on certain things since she’s preemie but Karen helped me go back to my core and center, listened attentively and answered all my questions. She also went beyond that and shared new ideas with me. It was ace. I might book another in a few weeks if needed. For now baby is doing everything by the book

Advice and videos are so clear and succinct

I just wanted to write and say thank you. We started your program almost three weeks ago, and it has dramatically changed our babies sleep for the better. Toby (10 months) went from waking 6+ times each night. We fumbled during each wake, as we offered dummies, bottles, whatever we thought would stop the crying for a moment. The only thing that we achieved, was waking him up even more and frustrating the **** out of him!

The first night of magic presence took 40 minutes, and now he is down within minutes once he is placed in the cot. We have had a few sleep throughs as well.

Your advice and videos are so clear and succinct. We found them so easy to follow. To compare, we looked back on a sleep consultant plan that we paid $300+ for with our firstborn and were stunned at how complicated and convoluted the plan was. No wonder it didn't work!!

I was so nervous about going back to work being so sleep deprived, and I was also concerned about how Toby would cope with the transition to day care. However, I now feel a lot more confident (and well rested!).

All the best and thank you again.

Christina

I'd pay 10 X what I did for this sleep program

never wanted to sleep train, I didn’t think I could personally tolerate listening to my baby cry endlessly. It surprised me how quickly my 7mo picked this up. Night one we removed the dummy and overnight feed cold turkey. We’re on night 11 and bub has been sleeping through almost every night since night 2 (we’re still battling early wakings every now and then). Day naps have also improved remarkably! I’ve also got one of the mums in my mother’s group onto this who is having huge success with her 8mo boy who she fed to sleep previously!

As my title says, I would pay 10x the amount for this program knowing how well it worked! Listening to the crying whilst in the room with bub was hard, but I know my presence was reassurance for her and it is the only reason I went with the program!!

Thanks so much Karen for this program, it’s working beautifully for us and I know it’s setting us up for long term success! I will recommend to anyone who will listen 😂

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