Quotes from Elizabeth Pantley

All kinds of things can affect your baby's sleep: teething, sickness, vacations, visitors, vaccinations, or simply disruptions to your daily routine.

Consistently stick to your plan, and over the next few months you will see your baby's sleep stabilize into a very comfortable pattern that is less and less affected by daily disruptions.

No matter how tired you are, no matter how tempting the situation seems, please be sure that you put your baby's safety above all else. I've gathered safety

Tune out the outside advice or criticism that doesn't fit with your parenting style. There are no absolute rules about raising children and no guarantees for any parenting techniques.

take fifteen to thirty minutes to help him transition from the activity of the day to the relaxed state needed for sleep.

Another way to help an active child slow down to allow tiredness to set in is to use a relaxation technique such as massage or yoga.

Other good prenap choices are milk, cottage cheese, hard cheese, yogurt, bananas, avocadoes, soy milk, tofu, soybeans, eggs, and of course the ultimate sleep-inducing food, breast milk.

Of course, your closest family and friends will want to get to know this little person, too, but make sure that visiting isn't your primary activity these days—except for those truly helpful people who can make a meal, run a load of laundry, or hold the baby while you nap! The

Typically, between the ages of twelve and twenty-four months, toddlers switch from two daily naps to one.

Instead of raising children who turn out okay despite their childhood, let's raise children who turn out extraordinary because of their childhood.

a TV in the bedroom increases the overall number of

quality naps can make up for lost night sleep—but extra nighttime sleep does not make up for missed naps, as made clear by the homeostatic sleep pressure concept. Therefore, no matter how your child sleeps at night—great sleeper or poor sleeper—his daily naps are critically important to release the rising sleep pressure. Infants have a much shorter span in which

Therefore, if you want your baby to be able to fall asleep without your help, it is essential that you sometimes let your newborn baby suck until she is sleepy, but not totally asleep. As often as you can, remove the breast, bottle, or pacifier and let her finish falling asleep without something in her mouth.

The more you know, the more easily you will develop your own philosophies about child rearing. When you have your facts straight, and when you have a parenting plan, you will be able to respond with confidence to those who are well-meaning but offering contrary or incorrect advice.

Then, when those amateur experts share their advice, you can smile, say "Oh, really?" and then go about your business, with quiet confidence, in your own way.

The problem with information on the Internet is that it is hard to verify its authenticity." —Abraham Lincoln.     ââ'¬Â¢

the benefits that subsequent stages of sleep would bring him, such as an increase in alertness, improved motor skills, a boost to his immune system, regulation of his appetite, release of tension, restoration of energy, and a stabilizing effect on his behavior and mood.

fill the Hush Hour with gentle, relaxing music or white noise (a recording of rainfall, ocean waves, or static sound). This music or white noise can be comforting and also mask any noises that can distract your child