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Holistic Sleep Coaching: The Sleep Training Alternative You Never Knew You Needed
Holistic Sleep Coaching: The Sleep Training Alternative You Never Knew You Needed

Holistic sleep coaching is an alternative option that is based on biologically normal sleep, responsive parenting, and gentle, family-centered methods. When you are struggling with your baby or toddler’s sleep, knowing the right path forward for your family can seem daunting. The internet and baby books are full of strict schedules and sleep advice that conflict with parenting instincts. You may feel like you have no other choice except to sleep train to improve your family’s sleep, but sleep training isn’t the only option.

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Nighttime Parenting Affirmations
Nighttime Parenting Affirmations

What to tell yourself when you are struggling

Nighttime parenting is hard work. It’s helpful to have some tools to support yourself when your doubting your parenting choices or up in the middle of the night and feeling completely done.

Here are a few tools centering around how we talk to ourselves about nighttime parenting with some specific affirmations and reframing ideas.

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The Facts behind Babies and Self-Soothing
The Facts behind Babies and Self-Soothing

So many of my clients have heard comments like these on a regular basis. It makes them feel alone, isolated, and even doubt themselves.

So do I really need to teach my baby to self-soothe?

The good news is that you do not need to leave your baby to cry to teach them anything! And in fact, leaving a baby to cry is the exact opposite of how you help them calm down.

Though advice to leave a baby to cry to teach self-soothing is common, It’s incredibly outdated. So much sleep and parenting advice misses the very real neuroscience that disproves this concept as well as the important role of responsiveness in development.

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