This practise has helped thousands of parents and babies around the world achieve better sleep, with most parents reporting improvements within the first 7 days of making the changes. You should always consult your pediatrician before beginning a sleep-training program with your child. I'm combined feeding now so my partner can help a little but like you say it does make it difficult to know what he's getting. Trying hard not to start feeding to sleep again as I feel like we've come so far and her night sleep has really improved!

My work is focused on helping parents to establish positive sleep practices for their children from birth to 6 years of age, with a responsive, attuned, loving and supportive approach.

It was mainly because the put downs were so unpredictable, sometimes she’d cry for ages, other times not at all. I would highly recommend her to anyone who is dealing with the sleepless nights to just pick up the phone and make that appointment with Lucy. We night weaned gradually before starting the method at around 9mo, I didn’t find it a wrench as feeding to sleep wasn’t doing it’s job anymore, but with my first I’d have never been able to do it at that stage. Her sleep was broken due to discomfort, naps were no longer than 20 minutes, we'd long days of her screaming in pain and puking, she latched very poorly due to pain and I ended up with a very painful breast abscess. Sleep Matters with Lucy Wolfe - I m just sat here reading my second book All About Baby Sleep that arrived in the post today!

To date, this 98% effective method has helped over 4,000 parents, with most reporting improvements within the first seven days of introducing the recommendations. This book is full of great information, but is wholly unsuitable to have been converted into audible format. Our baby's sleep and naps did get worse before they got better, but after two weeks our baby has manage 7.

So if in day she would take a feed every four hours I would offer one every four hours of night wakes. I regularly found myself distracted and unusually, didn’t bother rewinding as I was happy to have undoubtedly avoided some other repeated advice. He also is such an effort to get to nap too so i feel like he's constantly overtired - despite my best efforts.

She says you can pick baby up if he/she gets upset but not to rock to sleep and depending on baby this may make baby so upset. And in the outset, there were not nearly as many tears as I anticipated, and because you are there and can comfort and soothe, I didn’t feel too bad about it. I think she could cope with us leaving but I’m too exhausted to try it out with all my stressing over naps! I am expecting a baby due this summer and feel confident that I will manage again relying on your advice and books. Lucy Wolfe, a baby and child sleep expert, introduces the stay-and-support method for parents who want to help their babies sleep through the night.

If she does wake she will soothe herself back to sleep and when she does wake up fully (which is never more than once a night and not every night) a quick sip of water, pop her back down and she’s back to sleep. Although you may feel alone, frustrated and vulnerable, please know that sleep issues affect up to 70% of parents at some point in their parenting career.

The Baby Sleep Solution provides all the support needed for both baby and you to get what everyone needs - a good night's sleep! Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. One thing the book suggests if your baby is upset is distraction, bang on the mattress or the cot bars, turn the white noise machine up really loud and then back down again etc, blow gently on baby's face. After 10 nights of the stay and support approach (which didn't feel cruel) she was sleeping with just one wake for an overnight feed. Actually now I think, I’m sure we started going really early as when we had to do an extra 3rd nap days due to short naps, she was going down really well in the evening after only 2.Hope you have more luck, it's so hard but your LO is still so teeny so there will be lots of time for things to improve!