The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan: a practical guide to sleep-rich and stress-free parenting from recognised sleep guru Alison Scott-Wright

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Throughout, one-on-one coaching sessions are also available if extra reassurance is needed, and there is 24/7 chat support via the smartphone app which we found especially helpful. We used it regularly each day to ask questions, and sometimes at night time where advisors were able to login to a live-stream camera and offer on-the-spot advice based on their observations of Winnie’s behaviour. On a couple of occasions when Winnie’s crying escalated in the small hours and it became apparent my soothing techniques were floundering, I used the app to receive guidance on what to do to get her settled. The support helped our confidence enormously. A follow-up guide, helping parents to handle sleep issues in toddlers and children aged over twelve months. No, not really. Sleep breeds sleep in my opinion - the more they sleep the better they sleep. Newborns absolutely need a lot of sleep. Some people think they don’t sleep at all, won’t, and can’t - but they do. And they need to.

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it's best to feed from the breast at night for the first couple of weeks but by week2 or 3 you cam replace one of the night feeds with a bottle of ebm or ff. I know a lot of people think that if you’ve got a reflux baby, feed them ‘little and often and that’ll resolve those things’ - it actually doesn’t, it makes it worse. This is because it doesn’t fall in line with the natural workings of our digestive system and the digestive system of any baby. I have also found that she tends to talk about formula feeds rather than BF although there is a bit in there about BF. Just wondering if any BF mothers like myself have successfully used her advice.weaning is an option as well. Clearly exclusively bf isn’t filling baby up enough, they usually go through a growth spurt around then. This books now allows our little one to enjoy her sleep . . . She is a happy content smiley baby now and so are mummy and daddy!' You asked for advice here from anyone who had used her methods not to be put down for trying something that someone else may not agree with. All I have read and understood is that if at this age a baby is still waking up several times a night it isn't through hunger but through a habit and like all negative habits we can "retrain" it. I don't agree to just let babies and children do what they do, whatever, they do often need help and guidance and our love to get them over hurdles, little funny habits or upsets and sleeping well through the night is one of those very important things both for a childs development and for the health and sanity of us mums. At 20 months old, my daughter Winifred’s sleep was regressing. She would wake in the middle of the night, needing warm milk and comfort, and then take forever to settle. Then came the 6am wakeups. My wife Georgia and I hoped it was a phase, but as the broken nights of sleep rolled on, Winnie’s habits became entrenched. With a second child on the way, we became desperate for sleep solutions.

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Transworld imprint Bantam Press will publish The Sensational Toddler Sleep Planby Alison Scott-Wright, afollow-up to the 2010 title The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan, also published by the imprint. You could certainly try a cup, petsville. A doidy cup works for some (they lap at it when they're little) or a cup with a lid. Oh my goodness, this sounds so hard. It’s completely normal to feel frustrated and resentful and burnt out by this, so let those feelings wash over you and don’t beat yourself up for them. A few thoughts: I do agree that at the last pre-bed feed the baby is often too tired to take a proper feed. If I bf DS he'll just take a few oz and then drop off again, waking a few hrs later, whereas if I express and then bottle feed, he'll take 5oz and then sleep through.Our amazing NCT lady (president no less) told us that it doesn't matter when you introduce a bottle. it's nothing to do with us (mothers) but all about baby - if they don't want it and get food from other sources (boob, later on weaning) then they won't have it. Other babies are fine with it whenever it is introduced. Baby-care consultant Alison Scott-Wright takes the stress and tension out of those early weeks and offers the ultimate plan that will ensure your baby sleeps soundly during the day and for a full 12 hours during the night from around eight to 10 weeks, without the need for night feeds! Alison Scott-Wright is the UK’s leading baby, toddler and child sleep expert who also specialises in the management of ‘colic,’ acid reflux, feeding difficulties, dietary related intolerances and food allergies.

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Some fairly conventional wisdom on infant sleep cycles coupled with some fairly spicy suggestions around routine and regiment. Like with any parenting book, one ought to take what suits their needs. The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan has your baby of 8-12 weeks old naturally sleeping 12-hours through the night. That’s a natural necessity of sleep; the day and night split, sun and moonlight.I have a 5 month old DS. Every evening is the same and it’s really getting to me. I wait all day for my husband to come home at 5:30. He cooks and cleans and we have to take turns eating as baby needs constant entertainment, then we all have to just go to bed before 7pm as the baby won’t settle downstairs. Will not settle without me upstairs either. I’m breastfeeding and the only thing that makes baby happy after 6pmish is breastfeeding in bed with me on and off for an hour or so. I guess DH doesn’t need to come to bed with me as it’s me the baby wants but DH does come too so I don’t feel lonely. Sounds terrible. I never had this. I had ds's in their own rooms asap, own cot. Bath, breastfeed, bed. Straight to sleep. Me downstairs to watch tv with Dh, then bed. Breastfeed at 10pm, 2am, 6am. Baby care consultant Alison Scott-Wright takes the stress and tension out of those early weeks and offers the ultimate plan that will ensure your baby sleeps soundly during the day, and for a full 12 hours during the night from around 8-10 weeks, without the need for night feeds! Solutions to common issues and problems as well as in-depth explanations on how to cope with reflux and dietary-related colic. I wanted to wait until I'd actually had a baby to rate this, seeing how much of the book's message was applicable and which elements were useful.