Watson - Good night, baby, good night. Sleep Train Your Infant or Older Baby for Nighttime Sleep

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On the Web

http://www.nationalsleepfoundaton.org

http://www.kidshealth.org

http:/www.wingsforkids.org

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Note : Good Night, Baby, Good Night offers you a condensed version of some of the best information out there.

It gives you a simple technique to use, that is easy to understand and do with little effort and offers big results so you can get some uninterrupted sleep soon after Baby is born.

Good Night, Baby, Good Night

Sleep Train Your Infant or Older Baby for Nighttime Sleep

Copyright 2007 by Harriett Madayo Watson

ISBN: 9781623096489

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Contents

Introduction

Welcome to Good Night, Baby, Good Night, Volume 1 of the Madayos Child series of parenting guides. It is my hope that your child will benefit from my sleep-training techniques and become a winning trainee of Madayos Child.

The purpose of this first guide is threefold. First, it will teach you a step-by-step method for getting your seven- to eight-week-old infant to sleep through the night; second, it will help you reduce the anxiety and frustration associated with waiting for your baby to sleep through the night; and third, it will help you get some much-needed sleep.

This guide is designed with you and your baby in mind. These techniques will enhance the special bond between you and your baby. You will find tender and loving ways to train your baby to sleep through the night by starting very early (when your baby is five and a half to six weeks old). Thats right! (You can still try my techniques even if your baby is olderthree to nine months.)

I know you have been lovingly looking forward to bringing your baby home, but what parent is looking forward to interrupted sleep, sleepless nights, and dragging through the days ahead? You can say it: Not me. I know that most new parents view losing sleep as an acceptable event. Parents usually expect to lose sleep for the first nine months to a year. They simply believe that they will get through it somehow, and they usually do, but all new parents complain at some point. It doesnt mean they dont love their baby. It just means that they are tired, and they cant wait until their baby finally sleeps through the night.

I have a remedy for this. My trainings can help uplift parents spirits (mothers in particular) and contribute to their emotional well-being by reducing some of the stress associated with having a new baby and experiencing loss of sleep. By getting enough rest and enough sleep yourself, you will support the emotional health and well-being of your baby as well.

Good Night, Baby, Good Night can assist you with one of the first challenges of parenting: getting some much-needed sleep, even with a new baby in the house. We already know that your baby is going to get plenty of sleep no matter what. When your healthy baby first comes home, he is not going to be stressed, frustrated, or sleep deprived, but you might be very soon after!

My sleep training will teach you parenting skills that can only benefit you and your child. Nighttime sleep for your baby will mean sleep for you. Then you can feel energetic again soon after your baby is born. Moreover, my training techniques can provide your child with years of good sleep habits.

How do I know all this? First, I know because I am a parent who has successfully trained babies. Second, I know because Im a licensed mental health counselor, and I have had many years of experience counseling adults, many of them parents who have expressed normal and appropriate concerns about feeling overwhelmed, anxious and a little worried about how they will manage all of their other responsibilities with a new baby in the house. Their concerns were mainly related to the anticipation of sleep deprivation, which causes an additional challenge in terms of concentrating on and completing other tasks.

I hope to give you a little insight into the dynamics of you and your baby in the ever-changing process of parenting. This insight can help you achieve better success with the training and can work whether you are bottle-feeding or breast-feeding.

Very often, sleep-training guides can be too complicated in that they make many references to other experts in the field as well as the philosophy and the psychology of the sleep-training issue. I will not be doing that. I will not be disputing any literature, resources, or expert advice out there. Im offering my approaches and methods of training a baby to sleep through the night. I believe that parents just want to get to the point without having to explore every single aspect of the negatives and positives of the issue. They just want a technique that works and is safe so that they can get some sleep. If you agree, Good Night, Baby, Good Night is for you.

Uncomplicated is what I plan for this and all of my parenting guides. I might decide to get complex later on in my work, but I doubt it. Less is more, in my opinion.

I will highlight how early sleep training benefits you and your baby, provide you with a quick lesson to prepare you for the training, and then give you a step-by-step procedure to follow. You will also find an abbreviated twenty-four-hour schedule for sleep training your baby, which you will use after you are familiar with the training technique. Plus, you will receive bonus trainings for how to get your baby to take medicine (if it becomes necessary) and enjoy it, as well as guidance on continuing the training once your baby is older. These are just some additional tender and loving training techniques that I will provide.

True, nothing works for every parent, but every parent can certainly try the techniques provided in Good Night, Baby, Good Night. If the training works, the time you invested would not have been a waste. On the other hand, you could sit back and hope for the best (you know, just let things work out somehow), but I dont advise it.

You dont have to sit around wondering what to do. Good Night, Baby, Good Night allows you to work out your babys sleep schedule. My training can take the guesswork out of it for you.

I like to call it a start-up kit or a recipe for nighttime baby sleep. It can work in a matter of days or a few weeks. Just dont stop. Keep following my instructions. They can lead you to sweet dreams soon after your baby is born.

Please note that this training is not about every detail of having a newborn baby; ask your pediatrician about that. Good Night, Baby, Good Night is about how to get your healthy baby to sleep through the night consistently, and it includes additional parenting information.