Sleep Quotes

“Adam did not become magically more cooperative. He was still manipulative and tested his parents, but now at least his parents were taking the lead, instead of following their child.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“They had also tried controlled crying with Adam, which was why he, at two, was so insistent on keeping his mom nearby at all times. This was clearly a case in which the trust had to be rebuilt before any other problems could be examined.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Comforting your child is different from spoiling; it gives a child a sense of security”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Make it a house rule that your toddler has to knock on your door. Model this yourself when you go into her room.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“I can’t say this often enough: a baby who has been traumatized by abandonment often has more severe sleep problems at this age, and solutions take longer. With tough cases I bring in a blow-up bed and sleep in the child’s room at least for the first night.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“And even before your toddler is fully verbal, going over the day is also a wonderful idea, because it helps a child process her fears.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Because parents tend to allow more TV-watching and computer games in the third year, it’s not surprising that nightmares go with the territory.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Has your child ever slept through the night? In lots of cases we have to start at Square One. We have to look at emotional history as well, and for demanding behavior: head-banging, pushing, slapping, biting, hair-pulling, kicking, throwing themselves on the floor, going rigid when being held.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“The calmer you can keep children, the better they’ll be at sleeping”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“When I delved deeper, Shannon admitted that she had tried the controlled crying method “once or twice” over the last several months but gave it up because “it never worked.” Each time Shannon had done a complete 180-degree turn on her daughter. She’d left her to cry it out, and then started to pick her up again.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Also, because babies are totally uncoordinated at this age, they can wriggle a hand out of the swaddle, pull their ears and their hair, poke themselves in the eyes—and wonder who’s doing it to them. They also start to realize that they can make little noises that both entertain and disturb them.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“I pat probably seven to ten minutes after the baby has calmed down. Even if he’s quiet, I don’t stop until I’m fairly sure he has his complete focus on it, and then I start to slow the patting down more and more. Finally, I also stop the shush. Continue the shush-pat until he settles. If he cries, pick him up again, and do the shush-pat with him on your shoulder. When you put him down again, continue to pat him and see if he starts up again. If he does, pick him up and calm him down again.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“More than five and a half hours of sleep during the day will throw the three-hour routine off kilter and cause a baby to stay up all night.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“If you miss your baby’s sleep window, or try to extend his awake time in the name of getting him to sleep longer (another myth), it’s going to be a lot harder to teach him the skills of settling down.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Never let her sleep for more than one and a half to two hours during the day, which is the proper nap period for babies four months and younger.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“Don’t allow your baby to sleep longer than 45 minutes to an hour during the day for the first three days.”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

“The average baby cries somewhere between one and five hours out of twenty-four”
― Tracy Hogg, Sleep: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night