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The False Promises Of Sleep Training
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We live in a sleep training culture, and that means we hear a lot of promises around the magic of sleep training. It’s safe, effective, and will definitely fix your baby’s sleep quickly! There’s much more complexity to what the research actually says about sleep training, however, and much of what we commonly hear is full of false promises. In this episode, I’m sharing reflections around the idea that sleep training guarantees quick fixes to sleep. Even when parents don’t want to sleep train, I see them grappling with this false promise, and it’s exhausting.
Resources related to this episode
Dig into the history of sleep training more in this blog: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/blog/history-of-sleep-training
Dive into the research around sleep training more in this blog:
https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/blog/2022/5/5/sleep-training-research-unpacking-sleep-training-culture
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