I'd have to disagree with your above comment Sophie, no parent should have to wait for 6 months before they or their little one should be able to sleep and sleep alone, to advise otherwise isn't all that helpful. No major sleep training is done with a 7 week old but they can be shown how to self settle themselves, to be sleeping in their own baskets which is much safe than co sleeping with an exhausted Mum. In addition, if a sleep trainer is experienced enough and worth their money they will guide the parents along for the next few weeks until the nights are completely sorted. Its purely a habit the baby has got themselves into, having the constant comfort and it's just about introducing better sleeping habits with having no sleep associations, its not about 'training'. It really is as simple as that, so to carry on with the notion that nothing can be done for 6 months seems ludicrous. I help on average 2 mums a week with babies of this age, settling them into a gentle routine, sleeping without any aid and mum and baby are very much better off for it. Finally, to the Mum who posted, you don't need to pay a sleep trainer for this age, alternatively and at a cheaper rate you can book a really qualified maternity nurse who can come and spend two days with you and show you all of the techniques(but only go on someone who has been recommended as some can be less helpful than others, ie introducing dummies and leaving you with another habit to break later on)BabyMagic wrote:To be absolutely honest, there is no real way of sleep training a 7 week old, very young babies have such frequent growth spurts and change their patterns so often that trying to 'train' as such is useless until about 6 months (although there will be plenty of very expensive folk who will tell you the opposite, charge you the earth and sort one sleep routine, only for you to find your little one changes their natural pattern again at 8 weeks!).
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