Trust can be a difficult thing to wrap one’s mind around when you consider sleep training. It’s often associated with fear and leaving babies to cry on their own. It felt important to open up the conversation about trust as it relates to sleep training – to change the way we approach it and babies as we support them throw sleep.
How do you view trust and how it relates to sleep training?
The short answer, NO!
My style of caring for newborns and young toddlers is a cross between attachment, RIE and a tiny bit of Reggio Emilia (in which I have a strong foundation). Each philosophy is wonderfully different from one another. I take the pieces that fit my personality and work ethic the most.
You all know how much I love a good sound machine – and that I use to be a big fan of the Conair Sound Therapy Sound Machine. It was my go-to sound machine early in my Newborn Care Specialist career. But a few years ago, there was a shortage of them and they were really hard to find on Amazon.
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