Making Baby Sleep Through The Night With The Ferber Method

Richard Ferber is director of the Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital in Boston who believes in a "progressive" approach to helping your child fall - and stay - asleep.
In brief, Ferber suggests that after a warm, loving pre-bedtime routine such as bath, cuddling, singing, or reading a story, you put your child to bed while she's still awake. According to Ferber, putting your child to bed while still awake is crucial to successfully teaching her to go to sleep on her own.

Once you put her in bed, leave the room. Only go back to check on her after 5 minutes even if she cries for you. Once you return to the room, soothe her with your voice but don't pick her up, rock her, or feed her. Gradually increase the length of time that passes between checks. After about one week, your infant will learn that crying earns nothing more than a brief check from you, and isn't worth all the effort. She'll learn to fall asleep on her own, without your help.

There will of course be some things that will disrupt your baby's sleep from time to time, such as being in pain from teething, suffering from a cold, needing a bottom change etc.
Ferber recommends using his method if your baby is 6 months or older. A younger baby will still be having night time feeds, so it's best to wait until your baby does not need a nighttime feed before introducing the technique.

You have to be made of tough stuff to be able to stick it out and ingnore your baby's heartfelt cries, especially if you have been used to picking up your baby every time she cries. You could extend Feber's system over two weeks instead of the recommended one week if you feel the system is too harsh.

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