Babies' sleep is one of the hottest topics when someone refers to babies. For different evolutionary reasons, such as the need to feed often or the need to be near a caregiver to ensure survival, babies wake up quite often, this being often a problem for parents.
As with everything that happens related to babies, the best thing for them is that parents adapt their new life to the rhythms and needs of the baby and not that it is the baby who adapts to the parents' schedules, basically because When you try to do this second, the baby does not see his needs met and shows us his discomfort through crying.
However, as I say, not all parents can fully adapt to the baby and some, in fact, do not want to do it either. That is why they begin to look for information to make babies sleep better and wake up less and most of them end up reading the book "Fall asleep child", better known as the Estivill Method, which comes to say that if a child does not sleep all night it is because He has a problem and that we parents should let him cry for a certain time to learn.
Well, for those parents who see each other with that book in their hands and who are not sure about letting them cry (most, I would say), it might be interesting to know Tracy Hogg's method of sleeping, better known as the baby whisper.
The secret of having calm and happy babies
Tracy Hogg was a registered nurse in the United Kingdom, a midwife, with knowledge of hypnotherapy and special education. I say "was" because he died in 2004 at 44 years of age. He participated in some television programs showing how to educate children and wrote, among others, the book "The secret of having calm and happy babies", in which he explains what is the recommended method for sleeping the baby, in addition to treating others Parenting issues.
If what you do works, don't change it
As he explains in his book, it could be said that regarding the dream there are two clear and known currents, the one that defends the Dr. Sears, whose maximum exponents in Spain would be Carlos González and Rosa Jové and the one defending the Dr. Ferber, whose method has been adapted here by the Dr. Estivill. If a family is already convinced to follow one of these currents and it also works, it would be best not to change anything. Different would be that someone had chosen an option and that now things had changed and were determined to try another methodology as a solution.
The sensible dream
Hogg decided that both currents were very extremist and decided to stay in the, apparently, always sought midpoint, which sounds great, but that I have never decided to support, because normally the midpoints appear from the ends that someone marks, and those extremes are sometimes midpoints of other extremes. Well, leaving this aside and focusing on what it touches, Hogg seems to have taken a bit of both currents and also discarded a bit of both, since letting him cry was not an option for her, because babies' needs were not taken into account and putting them in bed used to end up being a problem for parents.
So he decided that children had to learn to sleep alone, but feeling safe and sound in their cribs (and not going to sleep scared or crying) and parents also had to be able to sleep peacefully, having time to share and maintaining a life in The one that not everything will revolve around the baby. This she called the sensible dream.
To be continue
Tomorrow, in a new entry, we continue with the method devised by Tracy Hogg Explaining what it is.
