For a new parent, every extra minute of sleep is gold. Learning how to help your baby to sleep longer is a way to avoid painful sleep training for the baby and sleep deprivation for parents. The trick is to catch your baby as they're starting to wake up and see if you can gently soothe them back to sleep. Elizabeth Pantley is one of the world's leading experts on how to get babies to sleep.
What is the most successful sleep training method?
If you look at the science, the science says, it's extinction. Put the baby in when it's awake. Leave the room. They'll cry, of course. Don't go in all night long. The problem with that, is well, sometimes it doesn't work. Most of the parents that I work with can't do it. It breaks their heart. And so they go in, and they start being inconsistent. And they cause more problems.
