Baby sleep: Alternatives to 'cry-it-out'

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Kate Garlinge

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4.7 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Host Jessica Rolph welcomes Certified Pediatric Sleep Specialist Lauren Heffernan to the second episode of our new season, Perspectives. In this season, you’ll hear curated perspectives on topics like sleep, feeding, and parenting philosophies, so you can make informed choices for your family.

It is rare to find a new parent who doesn’t wish for more hours of sleep; long nights seem to be part of the bargain. When those long nights start dragging on, it can feel like sleep training is the only way out. Lauren proposes a different approach. She is the founder of Isla Grace: Attachment-Focused Sleep. She prefers to avoid separation and the cry-it-out method of sleep training.

Key Takeaways:

[1:31] Lauren speaks about her own experience sleep training.

[3:56] She explains how that experience informs her practice as a sleep consultant.

[6:35] Supporting your babies’ emotions when you are sleep deprived is challenging.

[8:20] Why it’s difficult for parents to sit with those big emotions from their child.

[9:26] Lauren answers a question from a listener: My baby only falls asleep when I breastfeed him and wakes up throughout the night for more breastfeeding; how can I stop this without the cry-it-out approach?

[12:48] What happens when night weaning gets derailed.

[13:38] Bed-sharing and how to practice it safely.

[16:08] Lauren explains “bridging” between crib and toddler bed.

[17:04] How to reframe inconsistent napping.

[19:45] If you are getting extremely frustrated and exhausted, try a shifting pattern or ask for someone to support you.

[21:06] Lauren’s bottom-line advice to sleep-deprived parents.

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Isla Grace: Attachment Focused Sleep

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:13.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:20.1	I'm Jessica Rolfe, and this is my new life,
0:24.0	a love every podcast. While the science aligns and what's healthy for a baby's brain development,
0:30.1	when it comes to how to care for our babies, there's a seemingly endless supply of competing
0:34.9	perspectives. Parents are swimming in advice on sleep, feeding,
0:39.8	parenting philosophies. In this season of the podcast, we aim to provide a variety of curated
0:46.1	perspectives so you can make informed choices for your family.
0:53.4	It's rare to find a new parent who doesn't wish for more hours of sleep.
0:58.4	Long nights seem to be part of the bargain.
1:00.7	And when those long nights start dragging on, it can sometimes feel like sleep training
1:04.8	is the only way out.
1:07.2	Our guest on the show today has another approach.
1:10.0	As part of our new perspectives series,
1:12.5	we are speaking with Lauren Heffernan. She is the founder of Ila Grace, attachment-focused sleep.
1:19.0	She prefers to avoid separation or the cried out method of sleep training. So with that,
1:24.2	here's my interview with Lauren. So lots of parents lean into sleep training,
1:28.8	particularly in North America. Did you sleep train your child? Yeah. So, I mean, I find it really
1:33.8	interesting because I have a really different community on Instagram. I have families from all
1:39.8	over the world. And one thing that has become very apparent to me and one thing that I really take into my
1:44.9	approach is looking at sleep around the world. I think when we look at the way that other parents
1:50.0	put their babies to sleep or sleep practices around the world, I think it opens our eyes to the fact
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