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How can you get your toddler to sleep more and sleep better, and improve your own rest? An expert shares her tips
Ah, the blissful sight of a little child asleep
Most new parents accept the first few weeks and months of a new baby’s life as a time of blissful exhaustion. They know that a newborn’s tiny stomach can only hold so much, and that frequent waking to nurse and cuddle is an essential part of development.
As the first year turns into the second, and other moms and dads report that their babies and toddlers have begun sleeping through the night, parents of the children who don’t can become less understanding. Now that a baby is bigger, it may no longer seem so cute when she wakes you up to nurse, toddles into your room, or sits up and cries at what’s supposed to be bedtime.
She needs more rest, and so do you, to handle whatever challenges tomorrow brings. Most parents don’t want to let their babies cry to sleep, and in crowded spaces this may not even be an option. What to do?
Elizabeth Pantley, author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers, has written a gentle guide to solving sleep problems without letting kids cry for what seems like hours.
The best thing about Pantley’s book is how all-embracing it is. Moms who fall asleep nursing their babies, people who sleep with the entire family on mattresses in one room, babies that travel from bed to crib and back again in the course of a night; parents who thought these situations were unique find them embraced in Pantley’s guide.
As well as covering the most common sleep problems, from extremely early risers to the nurse-to-sleep crowd, the Solution dispenses kind and commonsense advice on how to improve your child’s sleep, and your own.
While Pantley’s tips help, perhaps the most useful part of this book is how it puts your child’s sleep problems in perspective. Even if your toddler is still waking up three times a night, chances are she doesn’t also fight sleep for hours every night, wake up too early, and have to be nursed into slumber.
Just knowing things could be worse – you could be waking up at 5 am every morning to the unwelcome sight of a cheerful, wide-awake lark – can make the nights a lot easier to bear.