Tracy Hogg's EASY routine and her shush-pat technique still come up constantly in newborn sleep discussions, more than twenty years after her first book. Here is what the method actually is, a...

Guilt is the most common reason parents quit sleep training halfway through — and the most common reason they regret it even when it worked. It is also a useful signal. It usually means someth...

Ha a baba rendszeresen hajnali 4-kor vagy 5-kor ébred, és onnantól kezdve indul a nap, azt a legtöbb szülő nem egyszerűen „korai kelésnek", hanem konkrétan túlélési gyakorlatnak éli meg. De mi...

Az óraátállítás sok kisgyerekes családban feladja a leckét. Mi lesz, ha a baba eddig 7-kor kelt, és az óraátállítás után hirtelen 6-kor ébred? Mikor fektessem le? Érdemes egyáltalán átállítani...

Sikítva felül az ágyban, nyitott szemmel néz rád, mégsem ismer meg. Nem lehet megnyugtatni, és reggel nem emlékszik semmire. Ez a pavor nocturnus – ijesztő nézni, de nem betegség, és nem árt a gye...

„Az alvás egy biológiai funkció, nem lehet tanítani." Ezt az érvet elég gyakran hallani, amikor szóba kerül a csecsemők és kisgyerekek alvása, az alvástréning vagy az alvás támogatása. Van ben...

Ha terhesség alatt valaki lázas vagy fáj valamije, gyakran felmerül a paracetamol használata. Ez az egyik leggyakrabban alkalmazott fájdalom- és lázcsillapító hatóanyag, amely számos vény nélk...

„De hát a gyerek igényeit mindig azonnal ki kell elégíteni."

„Nem hagyhatod sírni."

„Ha a gyerekednek szüksége van rád, azonnal reagálnod kell."

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Short answer: The thing that makes bedtime limits hold is not willpower, it is deciding in advance. Once I knew with certainty that I would not sing another lullaby, the stress disappeared, because I ...

Short answer: Declutter the room before you start sleep training. A 2021 Leiden University study found that reducing household chaos, meaning clutter, noise and unpredictable routines, made parents us...

Short answer: Longer days cause three predictable problems. If your baby will not settle in the evening, make the room dark earlier and stretch out the dark part of the bedtime routine, not just the l...

Short answer: A toddler who will not fall asleep until 10 pm is usually held up by one of four things: a room that is not dark enough, a nap that leaves them not tired enough, a nap that leaves them o...

Short answer: A baby waking at 5 am is usually reacting to light and noise, to genuine hunger, or to not getting enough sleep overall. Work through them in that order: blackout the room and mask early...

Short answer: A toddler who falls asleep on their own but still wakes you in the middle of the night usually has one of two causes: too much time in bed, or a habit that formed over a few nights. Cut ...

Short answer: A good bedtime routine is sweet, short and doable on most nights: under 20 minutes, shorter for younger babies, and made only of things your baby actually likes. Bathing is optional and ...

Short answer: Bedtime settling and night settling are two different skills. A baby can fall asleep on their own at bedtime and still not know how to do it at 2 am, because bedtime sleep training does ...

Short answer: In a 2020 study of 353 US mothers of babies aged 6 to 18 months, about half the babies met the scientific definition of a sleep problem, but only 22% of mothers thought their child's sle...

Short answer: Sleep regressions are real, but the numbered ones are not. Sleep does get worse for a few weeks at a time, yet everything that causes it — nap transitions, crawling, walking, teething, s...

What does CIO mean? CIO stands for cry-it-out, a sleep training technique also known as standard or unmodified extinction, and sometimes as ferberizing. You put your baby down awake in their crib, lea...

Short answer: You cannot fully avoid both. Two pieces of standard advice pull against each other: get your baby down before they are overtired, and do not create a sleep crutch. If overtiredness reall...

Short answer: You cannot stop a baby pooping at night, and they outgrow it within a few months. What you can change is how awake the diaper change leaves them: move your baby as little as possible, ke...

Short answer: The National Sleep Foundation's 2015 expert consensus puts recommended daily sleep at 14-17 hours for newborns, 12-15 hours for infants aged 4 to 12 months, 11-14 hours for toddlers and ...