The Dream Feed Method: How We Got Our Babies Sleeping from Dusk Till Dawn. Without Crying-It-Out
What if we could assure you that within four months of giving birth to your child, your baby will sleep peacefully from dusk till dawn? That without using the cry-it-out method or any traumatizing sleep-training techniques, your baby will be happily, peacefully, consistently asleep for 12 hours every night? Enter the Dream Feed Method—a tried and true way to get your baby on a regular sleep schedule and have the energy to fully love your baby, your partner, and yourself. Your friends with kids may have already scared you with stories of getting up two or three times a night for the first 18 months. But what if your experience could be different? What if your put your baby down at 7:00 and she put herself to sleep within a few minutes? You wouldn't feed, soothe, or listen to cries until 7:00 a.m. the next morning. What would it mean for your life, your marriage, and the well-being of your baby? The Four Principles of the Dream Feed Method 1. Start in the First Four Months 2. Empower Your Partner to Use Top-Up Bottles 3. Preempt Crying with Dream Feeds 4. Dream Feed a Little Bit Earlier Each Night Pick the One Sleep-training Philosophy That's Right for You There is no one-size-fits-all approach. There is no right and wrong. There is no good parenting and bad parenting. Sleep training, like all other parenting decisions, is about making the best decision you can. If, in the end, you and your baby sleep a little less or a little more, you'll both still be fine. You're going to be fine, because you're a parent. You're going to make the decision that's right for you. No person on the planet has the right to tell you how to parent your child. Love your child with the very best of intentions. Try to do what's right. Try with all your might to block out everyone who tells you otherwise. The Dream Feed Method is one of many decisions that you and your partner will make as parents about how to raise your child, regardless of how others try to influence you with their unsolicited advice. When your baby sleeps well, you sleep well. When you sleep well, you get to be the parent you've always wanted to be. You can do this. We're going to help.
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The Dream Feed Method: How We Got Our Babies Sleeping from Dusk Till Dawn. Without Crying-It-Out
What if we could assure you that within four months of giving birth to your child, your baby will sleep peacefully from dusk till dawn? That without using the cry-it-out method or any traumatizing sleep-training techniques, your baby will be happily, peacefully, consistently asleep for 12 hours every night? Enter the Dream Feed Method—a tried and true way to get your baby on a regular sleep schedule and have the energy to fully love your baby, your partner, and yourself. Your friends with kids may have already scared you with stories of getting up two or three times a night for the first 18 months. But what if your experience could be different? What if your put your baby down at 7:00 and she put herself to sleep within a few minutes? You wouldn't feed, soothe, or listen to cries until 7:00 a.m. the next morning. What would it mean for your life, your marriage, and the well-being of your baby? The Four Principles of the Dream Feed Method 1. Start in the First Four Months 2. Empower Your Partner to Use Top-Up Bottles 3. Preempt Crying with Dream Feeds 4. Dream Feed a Little Bit Earlier Each Night Pick the One Sleep-training Philosophy That's Right for You There is no one-size-fits-all approach. There is no right and wrong. There is no good parenting and bad parenting. Sleep training, like all other parenting decisions, is about making the best decision you can. If, in the end, you and your baby sleep a little less or a little more, you'll both still be fine. You're going to be fine, because you're a parent. You're going to make the decision that's right for you. No person on the planet has the right to tell you how to parent your child. Love your child with the very best of intentions. Try to do what's right. Try with all your might to block out everyone who tells you otherwise. The Dream Feed Method is one of many decisions that you and your partner will make as parents about how to raise your child, regardless of how others try to influence you with their unsolicited advice. When your baby sleeps well, you sleep well. When you sleep well, you get to be the parent you've always wanted to be. You can do this. We're going to help.
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The Dream Feed Method: How We Got Our Babies Sleeping from Dusk Till Dawn. Without Crying-It-Out

The Dream Feed Method: How We Got Our Babies Sleeping from Dusk Till Dawn. Without Crying-It-Out

The Dream Feed Method: How We Got Our Babies Sleeping from Dusk Till Dawn. Without Crying-It-Out

The Dream Feed Method: How We Got Our Babies Sleeping from Dusk Till Dawn. Without Crying-It-Out

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Overview

What if we could assure you that within four months of giving birth to your child, your baby will sleep peacefully from dusk till dawn? That without using the cry-it-out method or any traumatizing sleep-training techniques, your baby will be happily, peacefully, consistently asleep for 12 hours every night? Enter the Dream Feed Method—a tried and true way to get your baby on a regular sleep schedule and have the energy to fully love your baby, your partner, and yourself. Your friends with kids may have already scared you with stories of getting up two or three times a night for the first 18 months. But what if your experience could be different? What if your put your baby down at 7:00 and she put herself to sleep within a few minutes? You wouldn't feed, soothe, or listen to cries until 7:00 a.m. the next morning. What would it mean for your life, your marriage, and the well-being of your baby? The Four Principles of the Dream Feed Method 1. Start in the First Four Months 2. Empower Your Partner to Use Top-Up Bottles 3. Preempt Crying with Dream Feeds 4. Dream Feed a Little Bit Earlier Each Night Pick the One Sleep-training Philosophy That's Right for You There is no one-size-fits-all approach. There is no right and wrong. There is no good parenting and bad parenting. Sleep training, like all other parenting decisions, is about making the best decision you can. If, in the end, you and your baby sleep a little less or a little more, you'll both still be fine. You're going to be fine, because you're a parent. You're going to make the decision that's right for you. No person on the planet has the right to tell you how to parent your child. Love your child with the very best of intentions. Try to do what's right. Try with all your might to block out everyone who tells you otherwise. The Dream Feed Method is one of many decisions that you and your partner will make as parents about how to raise your child, regardless of how others try to influence you with their unsolicited advice. When your baby sleeps well, you sleep well. When you sleep well, you get to be the parent you've always wanted to be. You can do this. We're going to help.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781543932386
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication date: 05/28/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 232
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Bryan Symon M.D. is known as the The Babysleep Doctor. He has more than 30 years' experience working with parents and babies experiencing problems of sleep, feeding, growth and behavior. Dr Symon has a PhD in infant sleep and is the author of Silent Nights: Overcoming Sleep Problems in Babies and Children and Your Baby Manual for Optimal Sleep, Feeding and Growth in Babies and Children. He and his wife Maryanne spend their time visiting their 4 grown children and their seven grandchildren.

Table of Contents

The Dream Feed Method: An Overview 1

Part 1 Jana's Well-Rested Moms and Dads 7

We are Jana's Well-Rested Moms and Dads 8

Dear Moms 10

Dear Dads 12

Meet Eileen Aicardi, M.D. 14

Meet Brian Symon, M.D. 16

What It Means To Be a Well-Rested Mom 18

What It Means To be a Well-Rested Dad 22

Pick the One Sleep-Training Philosophy That's Right for You 27

Read This Book Before Giving Birth 30

Part 2 Why the Dream Feed Method 32

1 Why Start in the First Four Months 33

Your Baby Can Sleep from Dusk till Dawn 33

Start Before Your Baby Settles 34

But What if My Baby Is a Bad Sleeper? 36

Good Sleepers Get You the First Six Hours 39

Starting Early Prevents Sleep Regressions Later 41

2 Why Use Top-Up Bottles 43

This Is a Top-Up Bottle 43

Why Do We Care So Much About Top-Up Bottles? 46

But What About Nipple Confusion? 48

Nestle and the World Health Organization 50

Nipple Confusion Confuses Everyone 56

How to Make Bottle-Feeding Special 60

3 Why Preempt Crying with Dream Feeds 62

This Is a Dream Feed 62

Use Dream Feeds to Preempt Crying 63

Why Have I Never Heard of Dream Feeds? 65

No More Cry-and-Respond 68

4 Why Dream Feed a Little Bit Earlier Each Night 70

The Challenge with Stretching-It-Forward 70

Instead, Dream Feed a Little Earlier Each Night 71

All Sleep Training Methods Involve Holding Off 75

Cry-It-Out: Effective But Sooooooo Unpleasant 76

The Dream Feed Method Just Feels Better 77

And Yes, You Can Also Just Do Stretch-It-Forward 78

Part 3 The Dream Feed Method Step-By-Step 84

1 Start in the First Four Months: Weeks One Through Four 85

Recovering at the Hospital 85

Helping Mom Sleep at the Hospital 85

Place Your Baby to Sleep on Her Back 88

Getting Back to Birth Weight 90

Establish Good Breastfeeding 92

Start Pumping 93

Empower Your Partner to Do a Feeding 95

2 Weeks Two Through Six: Use Top-Up Bottles 100

Establish Top-Up Bottles 100

The 7:00 p.m. Top-Up Bottle 101

Three-Hour Scheduled Feedings 102

A Half-Full Stomach 103

Daytime Top-Up Bottles Can Help 105

Lock In the 7:00 a.m. Feeding 106

Cluster Feed in the Late Afternoon 106

Lock In the 7:00 p.m. Bedtime 108

Don't Lose Hope in the Sixth Week 109

Suggestions for Dealing with Gas 110

3 Preempt Crying with Dream Feeds: Weeks Four Through Eight 115

Establish Dream Feeds 115

Give Up One Feeding to Your Partner 119

Hold Off Until the 7:00 a.m. Feeding 122

There's No Need for Wailing 124

Night Changings 126

It's Not All About the Crying 128

Your Baby Will Start Feeding a Lot 130

Paced Bottle Feeding 131

Reviewing the Initial Schedule 132

4 Feed a Little Earlier Each Night: Weeks Six Through Sixteen 135

Feed a Little Earlier Each Night 135

The Meet-in-the-Middle Schedule 138

Dropping the First Feeding When Following the Meet-in-the-Middle Schedule 141

Dropping the Second Feeding 144

Dropping the Last Feeding 145

Your Goal Is Dusk till Dawn 146

Troubleshooting the 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. Feeding Pattern 149

Just When You Thought Things Were Going Well 151

My Baby Keeps Waking Up at 6:00 a.m. 154

Part 4 Standard Sleep-Training Best Practices 155

1 Scheduled Feedings 157

Sleep Duration Is Just Time Between Feedings 158

Holding Off Until the Next Feeding 159

2 Self-Soothing 160

Babies Wake Up Every 45 Minutes 161

Self-soothing Must Be Taught 161

Five Minutes of Crying 164

Swaddling 166

3 Low-Stimulation Soothing 170

Off-Schedule Feeding 171

Rocking, Singing, Swaying in Your Arms 172

Vibrating Rockers 174

Caressing Your Baby in the Crib 174

Holding Without Rocking Next to the Bed 175

4 Crib vs. Room-Sharing vs. Co-sleeping 177

This one is entirely up to you 177

Anything Goes in the First Month 182

5 A Dark, Loud Nursery 184

Total Darkness 184

Dim, Red Light 184

Loud White Noise 185

Nursery Checklist 186

6 Problems and Solutions 193

Difficulty Falling Asleep at 7:00 p.m. 193

Fifteen Minutes of Crying To Fall Asleep 195

Overtiredness 196

Part 5 After Sleep Training 198

Congratulations! 199

Don't Be Afraid to Start Solids 200

The Dreaded Sleep Regressions 202

Transitioning from the Swaddle 203

Transitioning from a Nighttime Pacifier 204

Joining Another Sibling in the Same Room 205

Traveling with Your Baby 206

When Your Baby Is Sick 208

When Your Baby Is Teething 209

Acknowledgements 210

References 211

Index 213

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