How to train
6 Month Old To Nap
Sleep Training
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hello I'm Aaron Trager if you'd
attrition with advocate not a group and
today we're going to talk a little bit
about sleep training your infant now
sleep training your infant is it sounds
like rocket science and it may feel like
rocket science but in reality it's not
now the first thing that you need to
understand about sleep training your
baby is that it is totally unrealistic
to expect your baby to sleep through the
night before their four months old okay
so you know just be prepared the first
four months or so are going to be pretty
rough but even though you have a newborn
that's you know a month old and they're
you know starting to act like maybe they
are starting to be ready to sleep
through them a little bit there's some
things that you can do to really help
push them in that direction so that when
they're four months old they'll be able
to sleep tonight so the first things
first if it is nighttime the fit is dark
outside you should not be encouraging
your baby to stay awake so what do I
mean by that well the first thing is is
you know leave the lights off okay make
it as dark as you possibly can for those
nighttime feedings also you know don't
think a lot of noise don't sing them
don't talk to him just change the baby
feed them and then you can put them
right back down or if you want
especially in the beginning to spend
some time holding them and rocking into
things like that that's that's okay but
as you get older and older as you get
closer to that four month mark changing
feeding and putting them right back down
is exactly the way to go so most babies
if you do that if most babies if you are
at a completely dark completely silent
they'll start to figure it out they'll
start to start to figure out hey I'm not
getting anything from this except for my
nutrition so I'm just going to go back
to sleep and then the rest of time
during the day forget about it go nuts
you know hey it's so good to see you're
awake and really enjoy that that parent
bonding time when right after a feat
where they're so awake and they're so
wanting to go during the daytime but at
night you know nice and easy going nice
and quiet and hopefully they'll start to
sleep through this all we start to sleep
a little bit more so so then it's four
months so now your baby's four month old
and they're starting to act like they're
ready to sleep for the night okay it's
okay at this point now that your baby's
four months old is to just follow the
same routine that you've been doing
before but you can feel a little bit
more firm with it so what I mean is
change the baby feed the baby and put
them right back down and if they're
awake and they're wanting to cry
stuff like that that's perfectly fine it
really is so you know really now that
your babies for my soul I'm okay with
letting them cry for 30 minutes up to an
hour I think that that's okay I couldn't
do it with my kids you know the crying
after a while started to say nope it's
been 30 minutes it's time to go back in
and then you repeat the entire process
you change them you feed them if you put
them back down and the point is is just
saying hey I'm not going to interact
with you right now I've just going to
let you get your nutrition and get back
to sleep eventually with some time they
will start to sleep through the night
but if you can't do that you know that's
okay now six months it's a little bit
different so by the time you reach six
months from a nutritional point of view
your baby should be just fine sleeping
the night actually by four months in
reality two months three months four
months by that point they should
nutritionally be okay with sleeping
games just look for 8 to 12 hours but at
six months it's time to really push a
little bit harder so now it's herds it's
not a nutrition thing it's turned more
into a behavioral thing that your child
is just used to this you know it's kind
of the same way you know you wake up
you've had a rough night a thunderstorm
will be up or you had a runny nose and
then for a couple nights later you're
still waking up at that three o'clock in
the morning like man why can't I go back
to sleep well your baby's doing the same
thing they've been programmed to stay
awake and wake up in a bill that I
frequently so at this point we change
things a little bit we change them and
you put them right back down and you let
him cry it's perfectly fine let him cry
for 30 minutes I'm cry for now that's
okay and then repeat the cycle change
them and then put them right back down
what you're doing is is that you're
telling them hey look this if there's
something wrong I'm going to come and
I'm going to be able to save you and
help you but it's time for you to go to
sleep and it's time for you to stay down
and with time that really really does
get better now how long does this take
well you know i'd like to say with
everybody yeah give it a couple days
it's going to work out perfectly fine
but most parents take comments within a
couple days within a week or so their
baby's not sleeping pretty good through
the night
