The Happy Sleeper: the science-backed guide to helping your baby get a good night’s sleep ― newborn to school age

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Baby London 'The Happy Sleeper makes happier parents by unleashing their child's natural ability to sleep with a sensitive, structured approach based on the authors' combined 20 years of clinical experience. The Sleep Wave method is designed to satisfy two critical needs of your baby, healthy sleep and secure attachment. Parents spend a great deal of time and energy coaxing, negotiating, singing, and swinging their children to sleep. Daniel Siegel, author of Parenting from the Inside Out and the New York Times bestseller Brainstorm. Once we carried out our sleep plan, the whole family started sleeping well and we went back to enjoying and finding so much pleasure in each other's company.

Since starting this, she goes to sleep within 3 min of crying, and today (day 4) - no cries at all for her nap!For every sleep issue in your child's age range, we have a solution that is responsive and supportive and keeps your baby or child in charge of soothing and independent sleep (with the exception of little babies ages 0 to 4 months, who are gradually growing into this capacity). Passing the job of soothing to your capable baby or child is very much in line with attachment theory. This is why we use the term “attunement” instead of “attach- ment”—so we can be clear about the goal. It’s normal for young babies, 0-4 months, to not be developmentally capable yet of falling asleep independently and sleeping through the night.

Artificial lights and electronics delay sleep for children and adults, keeping us all up past our optimal bedtimes. The problem is that while newborns often need these soothing devices, they outgrow this need quickly as their natural self-soothing abilities grow'sometimes within a matter of days or weeks.

Attachment is all about providing security for your children through anticipating their inner needs, making them feel safe, and communicating with them in a soothing manner.

But I also felt trapped - I knew that if we stopped we'd just go back to not sleeping and I couldn't handle that either. People with children of all ages are roughly twice as likely as those without kids to say that they're not sleeping enough and that they're unable to do activities like exercise because they're too sleepy. I tried moving her bedtime up, then pushing it back, I obsessed about the length and timing of her daytime sleep, her milk intake, etc. Once I knew baby needed 3 hours of wake time before bed, x amount before nap 1, x amount before nap 2, and x amount before nap 3, i started sleep training. Heather Turgeon, MFT, is a psychotherapist, a science columnist for the popular online parenting magazine, Babble.You'll learn in these pages what science and clinical wisdom have to tell us about how to keep the relationship with your child filled with compassionate communication while also structuring healthy sleep strategies. He gave the caveat that if you don’t stick with your sleep training method, you’re training your child to cry (they learn that x amount of crying will get them what they want and then they try to find x), so you have to be very firm with yourself. Even more, without proper sleep, our immune system does not function well, and so we can become vulnerable to infectious diseases. Good sleep habits are vital to child development and overall health, and The Happy Sleeper offers real-world strategies for getting children the sleep they need.