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"PARENTING TO SLEEP"
PARENTING TO SLEEP
"I have a 6-month-old daughter and I have always rocked her to sleep at night and still do. I get a lot of heat from others for this because "she will never learn to put herself to sleep". I love rocking her to sleep and I will continue to do so, its a quiet time for just us but I am wondering how she will eventually learn to go to sleep on her own with me rocking her. I know there will eventually come a time when I can't rock her anymore. Thank you for any advice you might have."
The majority of babies this age still need to be “parented” to sleep (nursing, rocking, cuddling, etc.). Pretty much guaranteed, that at some point in the future, you will tuck her into bed, give her a kiss, and say goodnight. Some babies just learned to fall asleep very easily, but many need to be taught. Our new book, The Baby Sleep Book, has just been released. This book is a wealth of information about how to learn the temperament of your baby and how to pick a good strategy for teaching them how to get to sleep. I’m glad that you enjoy the quiet snuggle-time with her, because that will not last forever. You can take a more aggressive “training” approach (explained in the book) or you can take a more relaxed approach… either way, if you do it right, you will have an older child that enjoys going to sleep. My two children learned to fall asleep on their own sometime between their second and third birthday.
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