No, this is not a video-based guide.

This guide is visual-based PDF with text and imagery to guide you through your journey at your own pace. You can easily search the PDF for keywords, and screenshot important pages for easy reference.

This guide includes information, guidance, and communication scripts that are developmentally appropriate and comprehensible for children in the toddler phase. This includes children ranging in age between 18 months and 3 years, though, the information could be applicable to older, school-aged children with some customizations to the communication style throughout the sleep learning process.

Sleep training is a behavioral intervention technique

What does this mean? Most sleep issues for toddlers are behavioral or learned, meaning that a habit or sleep association was created at some point that the child feels they need in order to sleep (common examples here are feeding to sleep, rocking to sleep, using a pacifier to fall asleep, needing a parent to lie with them to fall asleep, etc.). There are various methods for sleep training, but they all result in the behavior being changed by giving the child the opportunity and time to learn to fall asleep with their own techniques, rather than being helped to sleep each time by the caregiver.

Yes. This guide offers three responsive sleep training techniques that walk you step-by-step through how to handle bedtime, night wakings, naps, mornings, and the overall sleep schedule to help your child sleep 9-12 hours overnight and take predictable naps, or transition to a toddler ‘quiet hour.’ This guide can be used with toddlers who are still in a crib or in a bed. There is an option to stay in the room during the sleep training, or do a leave-and-check method. 

12 Nights or Less. 

This guide includes a 12-day program that will have your child sleeping through the night in 12 days, when followed exactly and with 100% consistency. Parents who follow the plan exactly to a T typically see vast improvements in sleep within just 2-3 nights, though toddlers learn at different speeds and therefore, it can also take up to the full 12 days.

To learn more about complete consistency during sleep training for the most success, visit this blog post: http://bit.ly/3ZYoqMb

Probably. Crying is normal for toddlers going through a big change (that they didn’t agree to). 

My sleep training methods are not "cry it out." Though, crying can often occur during this process as your child is learning something new and different. "Cry it out" refers to the Extinction Method, where a child is left to cry in their room alone until morning.

My guide offers three sleep training methods, and all are responsive and walk you through options for comforting and responding to your child. Two of the options are a "leave and check" method (similar to the Ferber Method, but not exact), and the other method allows you to stay in the room with your child the entire time.

Remember, crying is not inherently bad, crying itself will not harm your child, and sleep training will not harm your attachment with your child. To learn more about crying, attachment theory, and sleep training, you can visit my blog. 

The best way to ensure tears are minimal is to talk through the change with your child, wait until you’re truly ready to hold necessary boundaries so you don’t keep ‘changing the rules,’ follow a concrete plan (this is not something where “winging it” works well, and remain calm throughout the process.

Due to the nature of this guide being a PDF, I do not offer refunds.

If you need help clarifying information for more success or have extenuating circumstances, please email hello@sleepfullbaby.com for answers on a case-by-case basis.