Exhausted by all the sleep training methods just as much as from the lack of sleep? The Nordic no-method method provides less stress, more flexibility & maybe, more shut-eye.
Thank you so much for writing this. I’m a mom of an 11 month old in the US and thanks to Caroline Chambers’ advice, I opted not to stress about sleep training. We started cosleeping from about 2 weeks and it was like I unlocked some sort of superpower. There is so much stigma around cosleeping here, but each time I tried any sort of sleep training method, I felt like I was fighting my baby and fundamentally going against what he was telling me he needed.
He goes months now in the crib sleeping through the night, but will also sometimes have a week or month where he needs to sleep next to me for whatever reason, and that is so fine! He almost always starts in the crib, and I will move him to a safe cosleeping space with me if he needs help in the night.
The second I stopped trying to “make him sleep”, the happier we both became.
Thanks Margaret! It's so tricky because each child and situation is so different. I wish parents were told about how to safely bed share so they could feel that it was also an option - if it felt right for them. And I absolutely love that at 11 months he's sleeping through the night!
Definitely not every night! But it's not something we stress over on the nights that he doesn't. And yes to teaching safe bed sharing! My doula taught me how and it was so incredibly helpful.
Thank you so much for writing this. I’m a mom of an 11 month old in the US and thanks to Caroline Chambers’ advice, I opted not to stress about sleep training. We started cosleeping from about 2 weeks and it was like I unlocked some sort of superpower. There is so much stigma around cosleeping here, but each time I tried any sort of sleep training method, I felt like I was fighting my baby and fundamentally going against what he was telling me he needed.
He goes months now in the crib sleeping through the night, but will also sometimes have a week or month where he needs to sleep next to me for whatever reason, and that is so fine! He almost always starts in the crib, and I will move him to a safe cosleeping space with me if he needs help in the night.
The second I stopped trying to “make him sleep”, the happier we both became.
Thanks Margaret! It's so tricky because each child and situation is so different. I wish parents were told about how to safely bed share so they could feel that it was also an option - if it felt right for them. And I absolutely love that at 11 months he's sleeping through the night!
Definitely not every night! But it's not something we stress over on the nights that he doesn't. And yes to teaching safe bed sharing! My doula taught me how and it was so incredibly helpful.