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Sleeping Through the Night

Get Your Baby To Sleep Through The Night

By Elizabeth Geiger

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  • Tell your baby every night when it's time to go to sleep. Even in the early months, if you say this every night, your baby will associate you saying, "It's time to go to sleep," with sleeping. Of course, he won't understand right away, but when he does, he will not argue. Now when I tell Cassi, "It's time to go to sleep," or, "It's time to take a nap," she crawls up into my arms, puts her head down and waits for me to lay her in her crib.

    • Of course, every baby is different. Some babies need more sleep than others. Some babies need more attention than others. I do not agree with letting a baby cry himself to sleep. Doing so may be interpreted by the baby as you not being there for him. If you are spending sleepless nights rocking and carrying you baby -- trying to get her to sleep -- she is not ready to go to sleep on her own. Try letting her sleep with you and start the process again in a couple months. The practice of co-sleeping is part of the concept of "attachment parenting," and many parents find co-sleeping preferable to putting baby to bed in a different room. Attachment parenting is a concept adopted by Dr. William and Martha Sears. They have had eight children together, and have found that this works best and eliminates some unnecessary sleepless nights.

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