Practice the Pause
In her famous and controversial book Bringing Up B\xe9b\xe9, the author Pamela Druckerman talks about Le Pause\u2014The Pause\u2014as the secret to French parenting, and their sleep-trained infants. Basically, instead of rushing in as soon as their kids start to cry, French parents pause. They wait a few minutes, understanding that newborns often cry between sleep cycles, and that if you disrupt them (even to comfort them) you are actually preventing them from learning how to sleep. Sleep traini...