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Sleep Training: How to stop nursing baby to sleep
Getting your baby to sleep through the night requires that your baby or toddler learn to fall asleep on their own. Weaning off nursing to sleep teaches your baby to fall asleep independently. The reason why this is so important is it enables your baby to sleep long stretches and eventually sleep through the night.
In this video I walk you through each step of stopping nursing to sleep and getting baby to go down drowsy but awake. Most moms are convinced their baby can't learn another way of falling asleep, but I promise you, they ALL can!
I talk about the Shush/Pat method in this video, but you can use any method like Ferber sleep training, the Chair Method, Sleep Lady Shuffle, Pick Up Put Down and no cry sleep training.
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The first thing I would recommend is that you change around the order of your Peaceful Nightly Ritual, or your bedtime routine. Because if we feed or if we nurse our babies too close to bedtime, often what we find is that your baby is going to associate feeding with falling asleep. Your baby is going to need feeding to fall back asleep.
Ideally, you have more than 10 minutes between your baby feeding and falling asleep. In our Peaceful Nightly Ritual, we put books in the middle. You go through all of the bedtime routine. You have a bath, then you give your baby a little massage. You put on pyjamas and a sleepsack. Next, we feed with the lights on. And then, we read baby a book. Then baby goes into his bed. The white noise is playing, the lights go off. So you’re really separating feeding and falling asleep, which is different than nursing your baby to drowsy and then immediately putting him in the crib.
What you want to always keep in mind is, every night I want to remove myself more and more from helping baby fall asleep. So if you’re currently doing Shush Pat for 10 minutes while he falls asleep, then tonight, try to shorten it to 7 minutes. Then sit in your chair. You can sing, or you can shush while you’re sitting in your chair, but it’s less hands on. On Night 2, try to do it for 4-5 minutes of the Shush Pat, and then sit in your chair and do more verbal reassurance, and your physical presence is reassuring him. Once he’s got used to having no more Shush Pat and you’re only sitting in the chair as he falls asleep, then every night or two, work on just moving your chair a little farther from his bed.
What’s most important, no matter what method you choose, is that you take note of how much hands-on assistance you’re doing tonight to help your little one fall asleep, and you do less tomorrow, and less the next night. And you physically move yourself more and more toward the door.
We want your baby ending up falling asleep completely on his own and without you in the room, so that he’s 100% able to fall asleep independently. This will help him resettle during the night. Once your baby can do this, you’re going to see the sleep stretches automatically double or even triple.
It can be really hard to keep track of it when we’re tired, busy moms! So tonight and each following night, write down on a little Post-it note how long you were in the room helping him. Always make sure you’re moving towards helping him less and less. Take your phone in there if you need to, so you can watch the clock, because it can be hard to keep track of time when you’re in the baby’s bedroom.
If he wakes in the middle of the night and you think he’s genuinely hungry, that’s okay. Go ahead and feed him if he’s hungry.But make sure that he stays awake during his feed. And even if he falls asleep during his feed, then you want to sit him up, you want to burp him - do whatever you can to wake him up a little bit, to get him going back into his crib as awake as possible.
There are many ways to teach babies to fall asleep on their own, and to sleep through the night. In my program, 21 Days to Peace and Quiet, I have several step-by-step video guides for you to follow. I walk you through how to pick the right method for your baby.
