FREE Sleep Training for Baby

After having spent a few hundred dollars on a “professional sleep coach,” I realized there are just too many useless services when it comes to the world of babies. Anything to make a quick buck from desperate, sleep-deprived parents, I guess. I am going to do all parents in need of a good-nights-sleep a favor and tell you the sleep-training secrets for FREE! Here’s the exact schedule we used for our 2nd daughter Sofia, given to us by the sleep coach/ baby nurse.

Wake-up time: 6:30-7am

• Breakfast
• Playtime

Nap 1: 9-9:30am

• 1-2 hours in duration
• 2 1/2 or 3 hours after waking
• If under 1 hour nap, wait 20 minutes before picking baby up. Get baby out and wait until next nap.

Nap 2: 12:30- 1:30pm

• 1-2 hrs long
• wake-up no later than 3:30pm

Bed time: 6:30-7:00pm

• Establish routine

*Dinner

*Bath

*Bed

• 20 minutes before going to bed, keep baby calm with no over-stimulating activities.
• If baby cries for 55 minutes non-stop, pick baby up, feed baby and put baby back to bed without talking.
• If no naps happen before bedtime, early bedtime of 6:00pm or 6:15pm is best.

Extra tips to making baby’s sleep schedule more successful:

• Let baby cry it out up to 1 hour and 15 minutes. Imagine if you were craving chocolate and someone kept introducing it and taking it away without you ever getting the chocolate, that’s how a baby feels when you constantly re-enter baby’s room to soothe baby without ever picking baby up.
• In the morning, don’t get baby out of bed until desired time…6:30-7am. If you get baby out when baby cries, baby will establish that early rise time.
• Stay consistent for 14 days and it will work!
• Room temp should be between 68 degrees and 72 degrees
• Use a sleep sack

We used this exact schedule and it worked! Our daughter goes to bed at 6:30pm nightly and sleeps until 7am:) It was so hard to hear our beautiful daughter cry but it was well worth it now that she knows it’s bedtime and mommy can finally sleep through the night! Tough love is exactly that, tough but out of a loving place. You can establish a working sleep schedule for your baby and both you and baby will be so much happier/ healthier when you do.

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