You are listening to episode 18? Is it too late to jump on the sleep train? Hey everyone, welcome to the Peed's Doc Talk Podcast. I'm your host Dr Mona, where each week I hope to educate and inspire you in your journey through parenthood.

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Hello and welcome to

and welcome to episode 18 this is episode 3 of the five episodes I

dropped today for the sleep series okay so if you haven't already I want you to

listen to episode 16 which goes over cortisol

research and some things about anti-cry method rhetoric. episode 17 goes

over various methods including cry methods and more gradual methods.

Episode 18 is what you're going to be listening to today which I'll get into in just a

bit. Episode 19 is just an interview with a

interview with six moms that talk about how they approach sleep in different ways for their child.

So this episode is going to be focusing on older children.

And when I mean to older children, these are children that may be

old enough where they're coming out of the bed.

So meaning like they're in a toddler bed, so not necessarily in a crib. If your child is still in a crib and

is basically under the age of 18 months, you're going to use methods that I mentioned earlier. If they're older than 18 months depending on

the child and their developmental understanding, you may need to explain to them

rules, right? The reason why you're not really explaining rules per se to a under 18 month old is they may not understand the rules completely.

I still think it's nice to have a conversation like mommy loves you, I'm putting you to sleep, but depending on what you're doing under the age of 18 months

But as they get older they're going to obviously understand things a little bit better

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