PGK Episode151: Babies and Sleep (with guest Dr. Bob Hamilton)

Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker

Dr. Meg Meeker

Kids & Family, Education, Parenting, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Babies need to be taught human traits early on, and one trait is that humans aren’t created to be nocturnal. Nighttime is for sleeping, and sleep is a learned phenomenon. Most adults don’t wake up and eat in the middle of the night. In the same way, babies don’t (typically) need to eat during the night either. The sooner parents train them not to do so, the sooner everyone will get a better night’s sleep! Join Dr. Meg and sleep expert Dr. Bob Hamilton as he shares multiple proven ways to get your baby to sleep through the night. This will be a win-win for everyone! MEG (PART 1) Dr. Meeker and Dr. Hamilton share different scenarios on training babies at different ages (newborn - 24 mo) to sleep through the night. If babies sleep less during the day, they will sleep more deeply at night. Also, establishing and sticking to a consistent bedtime routine is key to your baby (and you!) getting a healthy amount of sleep each night. It’s best if breast-feeding mothers don’t allow their baby to fall asleep at the breast. Newborns need to be cognizant from an early age that they are being put in their crib after breast-feeding, and aware that you will be walking out of the room as they fall asleep. BREAK MEG (PART 2) Dr. Meg and Dr. Hamilton continue their candid conversation on the best ways to get babies of any age to sleep through the night. FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode 151, Secrets to Training Your Baby to Sleep, and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SIX MILLION downloads! Subscribe, rate, and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram @MegMeekerMD Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools are available at www.meekerparenting.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For 30 plus years, I've seen every type of child grow up.
0:06.0	Instead of giving me what I wanted, she gave me what I needed, which was true.
0:10.5	Don't let emotions win. Let truth win.
0:14.0	Do your very best and you should have a lot of fun while you do it.
0:16.5	And the better you get at something, the more fun you're going to have at something.
0:19.0	You, moms and dads are wired with everything you need to be a parent to a great kid.
0:27.0	Welcome to Parenting Great Kids. This is Dr. Meg Meeker and I am your host.
0:32.0	This is episode number 151.
0:35.0	Today we're going to be talking about sleep, specifically babies and sleep.
0:40.0	Kids who are under two years of age.
0:43.0	We need to do another show on kids who are over two because I've gotten a lot of mail from parents about how to get their four-year-old,
0:51.0	their five-year-old to stay in their room.
0:54.0	So we'll do that one day. Joining me today is Dr. Bob Hamilton.
0:59.0	Dr. Hamilton is a pediatrician. He founded Pacific Ocean Pediatrics in 1996 in Santa Monica, California.
1:07.0	He has affiliations with some of the most renowned medical facilities in the world.
1:13.0	He is the author of Seven Secrets of the Newborn. It's a fabulous book.
1:18.0	And it is often called the Baby Whisper and has been featured in numerous print radio and television shows around the world.
1:27.0	This is a guy who really knows his stuff when it comes to babies and sleep.
1:32.0	His four-step technique for quiet and crying infants known simply as the hold has been a viral sensation since first posting it on YouTube in 2015.
1:44.0	Watch the tutorial yourself and you'll see how desperate parents excelled size of relief when they learned the hold and how to get their babies to stop crying.
1:57.0	And friends, if after this podcast you want to talk more about how to get your baby to sleep or just hear other parents talk about sleep and babies, jump into my parenting great kids' community and we'll continue the conversation.
2:12.0	I want you now to listen in on a conversation I had with Dr. Bob Hamilton. I know you're really going to enjoy this.
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