Good Night, Sleep Tight Workbook

Nurse or bottle-feed with the light on. You don’t want to give the message that “the way we go to sleep at night is to suckle to sleep or get very drowsy in the dark.”

Pick up to calm and not to put to sleep

If you breastfeed exclusively, it may help to put Dad on night-duty: Since he can’t nurse, your baby might adjust to the no-night-feeding routine more quickly

and then hold her only briefly.

Comfort her from your chair as you did at bedtime. Don’t pick her up unless she’s hysterical

You will be tied to the house during the nap-coaching process. If you feel like all you’re doing all day is trying to get your child to go to sleep, then you’re doing everything right! Hang in there. You can do this!

45 minutes in the morning. This is the bare minimum for a nap. If

Your child doesn’t go to sleep for the entire hour. Do your dramatic wake-up routine

Your baby’s morning nap should be no longer then 1½ hours

No naps before 8:00 a.m.—even if your child has been up since 5:00