This is some of the most rigorous and prescriptive advice on the market, and Ford has rabid devotees whose newborns (!) sleep through the night. But the good news is that pretty much any sleep method will work if you stick with it babies, like all humans, are pattern-seekers, and, as with so much else in life, consistency is key.ġ) The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting by Gina Ford There truly is no best method for sleep training - what works for one family won’t necessarily work for another - and some families decide not to do it at all. The “middle ground” sleep approaches with more flexibility may seem like an obvious best bet, but they can take longer to implement, so it can be hard for exhausted parents to stick with the process. Another way to look at it is that you have to decide whose needs and/or preferences reign supreme: yours or the baby’s. Think of the various methods as falling along a spectrum according to how much crying you can tolerate (and at what age). This almost always involves some amount of crying (baby’s, sometimes yours, too), as you teach your baby to get into a routine that works for you both. Sleep-training is the art of teaching your babies to sleep when they wouldn’t otherwise. I have real-life friends who swear by each of these, and all are a) alive, b) sane and c) mothers of children who sleep through the night.
So, as a public service, I hereby present a roundup of some of today’s go-to Sleep Bibles, in order from hard-core to gentle. I also know how hard it is for new moms to stay awake long enough to read more than a page of any book - let alone a book about sleep. And though the concept of a “bedtime routine” once seemed too obvious to even think about, you suddenly find yourself on Amazon at 2:42am ordering the book that the grocery store cashier told you her daughter swore by. So much so that you might find yourself calling your insane cousin to ask if she can repeat every word of what seemed like self-important rambling when she cornered you at your baby shower to proselytize about her “miracle” sleep-sack. There’s no way to overstate the importance of the topic of sleep to any new mother. (I say “one of” because the actual most annoying thing in my pregnancy was my husband responding to wishes of congratulations with “We’ll see! Who’s to say it’s mine?!”) As anyone who is or ever has been pregnant knows, one of the most annoying things that occurs throughout the nine months is friends and strangers alike chuckling knowingly and saying “Sleep while you can!”
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