Sarah Ockwell-Smith, author of 'The Gentle Sleep Book' discusses the wisdom of teaching babies and toddlers to 'self soothe' or 'self settle' during sleep. Are our children really soothed and settled, or is something else happening?
Have a 7 month old whose sleep has been rocky the past month. Pressure defs coming in from various sides to sleep train. But just goes against All my instincts. And as I said to my husband, I would honestly rather have to wake up 5, even 10 times a night than ever not attend to my baby when they call out for support in the night time. 💜
Aw its so great to hear this. I was actually curious about the title as it was making sense to me. Now that makes sense (that it doesnt)... Thank you on behalf of my child and other babies for putting things back into perspective!
Hello Sarah! I love your videos! I finally found someone who shares my style of parenting. I need your help in one situation regarding my 1 yo sleep routine. He got used to be rocked to sleep since he was an infant and now it got harder and harder for me to do it since he gained a bunch of weight. I would like to hear your tips about how I could teach him to sleep in a different way. I mention he is still breastfeeding. Thank you and I look forward for more videos. I find them very informative.
Some adults and teenagers cant self-soothe, that is correct, but that is because they were never taught the skill of self-soothing as children... Instead they continuously look outward for sources of emotional regulation and find manipulative, toxic partners, drugs, alcohol etc to soothe them.
Sometime I joke saying wish there's an app to translate lo's cry to understand what he needs! I guess whatever it is bothering them at night the thing they want the most is being conforted by mummy. My lo is the 18 moths NEVER slept through and still wakes up at least 4-5 (for a long time we were on hourly wake ups) we cosleep and breastfeed to sleep and hope one day it'll get easier
@@omyusuf64 Hello How's everything? I am the mother of 30months and im breast feeding to sleep my baby at night I wonder if you still think this way was right Also how's your kid doing?? Is she/he sleep good now?? Sorry if my english is bad
So if the baby dirty ther nappy are they expected to just lie their in it...or if they are thirsty just lie there and be thirsty. No sorry but self soothing is wrong a baby needs their parents
