What Babywise ACTUALLY says About Sleep Training 

A little confused though. You mention the five S’s as a way to sleep train but those tools are not teaching your baby to fall asleep independently.. they still rely on sleep associations (swaddles, pacifier) and interventions by parents (shushing and sifting).

I just want to warn parents here on pacifiers after 3/4 months. I just helped a child get off of his pacifier, which was making him waking him wake up alll night for 9 months. Around 10 months I literally watched him go through WITHDRAWAL it was so sad and scary! Please remember that before 8 months they forget about their pacifiers in one day, after is harder. Independent sleep can also be hard if your child isn’t used to calming themselves on their own (a skill they will need their entire life). I also just helped my friend and her son get off “the boob”. She was only feeding him (15mo) at this point for a while for comfort, not for nourishment. She started doing this quickly around after we got him off his pacifier. He never learned all of the skills he needed to calm himself… now that it’s starting to be tantrum season, I’m glad I am not their caregiver! Speaking of which please always look for a caregiver that gives notes and if they do make a suggestion like “I’ve noticed xyz… have you thought of ??” Please realize they are with your child a lot and their input is important. Especially if, like my amazing caregiver they ask so very kindly. Most Nannie’s don’t take the time to log baby’s every day tasks and food and other notes-appreciate them. I have also worked doing this and it’s a LOT on a young girl doing it by herself. If your caregiver has been working with infants and toddlers even though they may not be a parent, they likely know more than you and have a different outlook. I’ve seen way too many refer to these magical humans as babysitters and not pay them enough or treat them well. I don’t know what I would’ve done without mine!! I’m hoping to be able to make the same impact now that my daughter is older

After 2 weeks of sleep training my daughter still wakes up at least 3 times during the night. I let her cry until she settles as she usually fall back to sleep in 3-5 minutes, but we seriously struggling with this short period of time 😭

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! We have a 7 week old baby and we have been feeding her every 3 hours since she was born with the schedule 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm, 10pm, 1 am and 4 am. We are trying to reduce her middle of the night feeding down to 1 and we are trying to do 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 6:30pm, 9pm, 11:30pm and the middle of the night we are trying to get the baby to stretch it using a pacifier to sooth her. However our baby has not been sleeping much at night at all and she would wake up multiple times instead of just 2 times. Is this something that would usually happen at first when we merge feeding and gradually get better? or are we doing it wrong? We really hope to get some clarification from you, thank you!

What are the four S’s??

Is drugging up the baby okay? I ask because Shannon watts had her daughters addicted to Benadryl.

sure would have been helpful to recap the four s's. gotta watch a different video for that? no thanks.

Really appreciate the help, however i feel like this lady is semi passive aggressive in her tone.