Baby sleep isn't linear and we're not expecting it to be. We'd just got off our morning Camp Snooze coaching call when one of our mums said she thought you just sleep train, fix the problems and that's it forevermore. So this week we're talking about what to expect, how to future proof baby sleep and why the blips are normal.
Bec walks through the most common bumps after sleep work: a bit of sickness from daycare, Nana and Granddad coming to stay and the big one, a schedule change. A new sleep distribution can feel blippy and like you're going back to square one. It's not that your baby has lost the ability to self-settle. You've got your tools.
Sally explains why there's no such thing as perfect baby sleep, why an otherwise well rested baby with great sleep skills will often skip a more stereotypical regression and why she sees sleep as a daily practice in her house, still with a four and a seven-year-old. Yes, the green light gets a mention for her early riser.
We talk about the urgency to fix and why the answer is so often to hold steady and go back to your original technique. Bec shares Harlow's two year nap refusal, which ran to day 17 while her boys were done by day 12. Sally explains why we don't anticipate a seamless run in active sleep training, why bedtime and overnight usually lock in first and why working on naps can ironically make nights take a hit. We also talk about why families stay with us for years: not because it didn't work but because they know to come back when they hit a snafu.
We finish on the magic phrase. A Camp Snooze dad only had to say it twice from the back of the car. Sally's been saying hers since her daughter was two weeks old. Sleep associations get a bad rap but this is one we love. And it is never too late to get better baby sleep.
