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Gentle Sleep Training For Your Little One – Without Tears

Respectful sleep training to help your little one sleep better, so you can get more rest too.

Respectful sleep training | Image shows a sleeping baby sucking their fingers.

What is Respectful Sleep Training?

For me, respectful sleep training means keeping the focus of the exercise on everybody’s welfare, as opposed to a very strict and specific outcome.

It means that the goal is to improve everybody’s  wellbeing, rather than to get your baby to achieve an arbitrary number of hours sleep without waking.

I understand (I really do!) that lack of sleep is torturous. And for some parents their need for uninterrupted sleep outweighs everything else.

Read these new baby sleep deprivation tips to help the whole family get more rest.

I don’t judge those parents, but before we go further; if that’s you then this post may not be what you’re looking for.

I far prefer to consider the big picture and how things can be made easier for the whole family, without resorting to making anybody suffer for the sake of another. 

Should You Consider Implementing Respectful Sleep Training?

If you’ve read any of my other posts about baby sleep, you may already be aware that my ethos leans heavily towards the fact that we shouldn’t necessarily be trying to push too hard to make our babies sleep better. 

Gentle sleep training | Image shows a sleeping baby

Is there actually a problem, or are other people insisting there is one?

Before I alienate all of my readers, bear with me, and let me qualify that…

If things are not working, then I absolutely advocate trying to find a solution that works for the whole family. But first it’s important to ask yourself the following question:

Is there actually a problem, or are other people insisting there is one?

Breastfeeding and sleep training pin.

Whatever your baby’s sleep pattern looks like, if you’re coping and happy with the situation, then there’s no problem and nothing needs fixing.

Of course it does often reach the point where a lack of sleep begins to take its toll, and you will feel ready to make a change. 

Gentle Sleep Training For Your Baby – Without Tears

Whatever your baby’s sleep pattern looks like, if you’re coping and happy with the situation, then there’s no problem and nothing needs fixing.

Of course it does often reach the point where a lack of sleep begins to take its toll, and you will feel ready to make a change.

These gentle sleep training solutions are ideal to help you get the rest you all need, without resorting to harsh methods.

Keep in mind that baby’s sleep patterns change frequently, for many reasons. Your situation could be very different next month, and that’s true whether you implement sleep training or not.