Baby Sleep Fairy

Singapore
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Why Sleep Training Fails


Parents who have been struggling with sleeping problems for a while usual have tried sleep training methods and have failed. This has lead them to believe that all sleep training methods are bad or produce a lot of crying or just don't work.

In my experience, when I investigate how parents handle sleep training, they are usually not implementing the correct methods. When correctly applied, sleep training methods work and can be done with minimal crying or fussing.

Sleep training is not about punishing the child or making them cry. The purpose of sleep training is to help the child get better rest and do it with the least amount of crying possible.

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  • Reason Why Sleep Training Fails

    • Parents have not done the proper preparation and don't follow through on the plan
    • Parents loose confidence midway through the training and stop training or they change course of action they try something different during the middle of the night.
    • Parents do not give the program enough time to work. The older the child the longer it can take. Also a child's temperament can affect how long it takes. So a more determined child can take longer.
    • Parents may use the wrong bedtime for an older child.
    • Parents start sleep training with naps instead of nighttime or in the middle of the night
    • Parents try sleep training in the middle of the night
    • One parent isn't supportive of the decision to sleep train and undermines the confidence of the other parent 
    • The family has interruption during what should be the sleep training period: i.e. vacation, visitors, nights out and a babysitter needs to take over for more than 1 night
    • The child has an existing medical condition that would prevent the parents from sleep training
It is very important that whenever you decide to make a change to correct a sleep problem, you are prepared to make the neccessary changes. Often the changes are on the parent's behavior. Parents must be committed to changing.

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Singapore
ph: +65 9030 7239