The secret to get your baby to nap or sleep longer

Elizabeth Pantley, author of "The No-Cry Solution" shares a trick on how to get your baby to sleep longer.
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The secret to get your baby to nap or sleep longer

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- So if your child is a cat napper, what do you do? This is what I suggest. If he normally sleeps about 20 minutes, have a chair in the hallway outside his bedroom door and at about 15 minutes before he wakes up sit there and read a book or knit and wait and listen. The minute your little one starts to make any kind of sound like he's waking up, rush in there and pat him, rub him, rock him, do whatever you need to do to get him to go back to sleep. If you will have caught him before he's fully awake, he will go back to sleep and then finish his nap and if you do this for a week or two you'll find he'll get in the habit of taking a longer nap and that will become part of his daily routine.


Elizabeth Pantley, author of "The No-Cry Solution" shares a trick on how to get your baby to sleep longer.

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Elizabeth Pantley

Author, The No-Cry Solution book series

Elizabeth Pantley is a parent educator, mother of four, and the author of the now-classic baby sleep book, The No-Cry Sleep Solution, as well as six other books in the series, including The No-Cry Separation Anxiety Solution, The No-Cry Potty Training Solution, The No-Cry Discipline Solution, The No-Cry Picky Eater Solution, plus other successful parenting books. She is known worldwide as the practical, reasonable voice of respectful parenting. Her books are available in 27 languages.

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