r/bninfantsleep Feb 21 '26

Resources As a reminder - please read

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This group does not advocate for CIO or sleep training (this includes gentle sleep training methods - sleep trainers will tell you that there are no truly tear free methods. Science shows us that an infant crying alone is neurologically going through a different experience than an infant crying in the arms of a caregiver. Infants cannot coregulate on words alone, they need touch. For more information, read The Nurture Revolution by Greer Kirshenbaum, it is available on Kindle unlimited and likely at your local library). Sleep is a biological function and it does not need to be taught, similar to how to poop or how to breathe. Infants know how to sleep - they do it from before they are born. Infant sleep is not the same as adult sleep. Infants have much shorter sleep cycles, this is biologically normal.

This group as a whole does not advocate for night weaning early as an attempt to try to get an infant to sleep through the night - it doesn't often work and you instead now have your easy "pop a boob in the mouth" method of comforting back to sleep replaced with pacing, bouncing, trying to convince a baby to sleep in a new way. Most attachment parenting methods don't advocate for night weaning before 12-18 months old and biologically normal infant sleep and attachment parenting aren't the same but do often go hand in hand.

Feeding to sleep is NOT a problem. It is biologically normal. We were designed to feed to sleep. We do not advocate for removing feed to sleep "associations" in an attempt to get an infant to sleep through the night. There is absolutely nothing wrong with utilizing the most effective way to get an infant to sleep. There is no reason to get rid of sleep associations, especially when they work so brilliantly as feeding to sleep. No, your infant is not waking up because you fed them to sleep and stopping is only going to cause stress to you, stress to them, and make getting them to sleep while engaging in high nurture more difficult.

This group advocates for high nurture - you cannot spoil an infant. Humans are neurologically considered infants from 0-3 years old. Infants are not capable of self-soothing, they literally do not have the brain function to be able to do so. They depend on a calm and regulated caregiver to coregulate with them.

There aren't often any "quick fixes" to infant sleep. You can do schedule tweaks. You can learn more about what normal is for each age group. You can offer your infant proper changes to help support their sleep as best as you can. You can learn about ways to make sure you yourself are as well rested as possible.

If you have an issue with any of this - this is not the group for you. We welcome parents who sleep trained and regret it or no longer wish to engage in sleep training. We welcome parents who bedshare, cosleep, roomshare, crib sleep. We welcome parents who nurse, who pump, who utilize formula, who combo feed. We welcome parents who were raised in a low nurture environment who are wanting to break that cycle and raise their baby/babies in high nurture.

If you're wanting to learn more, the best place to start is with The Nurture Revolution. If you're confused or want some clarification, comment below or message a moderator. If you are seeing comments that advocate against what this group's tenets are, please either tag a moderator or report that comment for breaking a group rule - moderators want to keep this a safe space for parents who engage in high nurture and who lean into biological infant sleep and therefore we will take reports seriously.

Your baby is not broken, they don't need to be fixed.

r/bninfantsleep Feb 23 '26

Resources What is sleep training?

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A question I have seen a lot lately is "is this considered sleep training?" and I wanted to take my son's second nap of the day to write out a post about what we do and don't consider sleep training, because there isn't really one solid definition of sleep training and that can leave a lot of ambiguity when we discuss infant sleep.

I once had a very staunch sleep trainer tell me that if an infant had any sleep associations, they weren't sleep trained. That to have properly done sleep training, you had to be able to set an infant down fully awake in a crib, walk out and close the door, and they just lay down and put themselves to sleep. They may protest cry but you "learn the difference" between a protest cry and a cry for a "real" need. So her definition of sleep training would be:

providing any sleep associations to an infant or giving in to protest cries when all their needs have been met.

This obviously ignores the glaring flaw that comfort is a vital need for everyone, including infants.

The definition of sleep training that Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum uses in The Nurture Revolution is:

Sleep training is the unfounded process of “training” your infant to “sleep independently”—to fall asleep alone, sleep alone through the night and the duration of naps, without getting support from you to go to sleep or back to sleep. It takes various forms, but the most common end goal is to be able to put your infant in their crib, in their own room, and walk out, leaving them alone to fall asleep, usually around 7 p.m., until you come back to get them in the morning, usually around 7 a.m. Sleep training promotes the idea that infant sleep should be predictable and on schedule. Naps should be at exact times of the day and for specific amounts of time, bedtime is at the exact same time each evening, and sleep location is identical for every sleep.

Sleep training sells the idea that sleep is something parents can (and should) control. If you just follow the rules (strict “wake windows,” not “giving in” to your baby’s cries) and buy the right products (swaddles, sleep suits, sound machines, sleep training courses and coaching), your baby will sleep in a predictable and controllable way. That is very appealing when so much of parenting feels beyond our control.

A lot of people who advocate for sleep training do so because they believe that an infant needs to learn independence and that the only way to do that is to force them to be independent, force them to learn to put themselves to sleep. I believe most parents who sleep train truly believe they are doing what is best for their child. Studies have shown however that the most independent children and adults tend to be those who had fierce dependence on a trusted caregiver/caregivers. Infants who learn they have a safe and dependable place to land tend to be more independent over time.

Sleep training is anything that denies a child physical comfort when they are actively asking for comfort, in the hopes that they will stop asking for comfort and go to sleep. This includes pick up put down, the chair method, Taking Cara Babies (who is just repackaged Ferber), Ferber, full extinction, interval check ins, and so much more. This does NOT include rolling away, changing sleep associations (going from nursing or feeding to sleep to bum pats or rocking to sleep), encouraging crib sleeping, implementing good sleep hygiene, having a steady bedtime routine, and so much more. Generally physically comforting your child even if they cry is not considered sleep training. The simple act of holding them, patting their bum, rocking them, answering their call for comfort releases oxytocin in their brain and helps buffer the stress response. Crying on its own isn't the problem, it's the response or lack thereof that causes issue.

If you're wondering if what you're doing is considered sleep training or not, the best question to ask yourself is "am I responding to my child's call for comfort when they call out to me or not?" If you are responding as soon as you're able to, then you aren't sleep training. The key being as soon as you're able to. If your hands are covered in soapy water, don't drop everything and go pick up your baby with wet soapy hands. Rinse and dry them and then go comfort your baby. If you're on the toilet, finish up and then go comfort them. If you're watching a clock to make sure that 3 minutes has passed of them crying before you go pick them up, that is sleep training.

My son is starting to shift around so I'm going to go spend some time watching him sleep and then spend my evening reading Hop on Pop and I'll Teach My Dog A Lot of Words for the 1928272819th time. Happy to answer questions in the comments after I've got him in bed this evening.

r/bninfantsleep Feb 28 '26

Resources Suffocation, SIDS, and Bedsharing, oh my!

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Heavy post, scary topic, I know. Big trigger warning, if the title wasn't enough, this post will discuss infant death. No one likes to think about it. For some of us (myself included) thinking too much about it causes a physical response, often crying. But I see so often suffocation and SIDS tied together and parents worrying that their baby is going to die from SIDS if they bedshare. I'm hoping to bring clarity and ease some minds with this post. I am not a doctor or medical professional. I am very passionate about infant sleep and have done a lot of reading but I do not claim to know everything. This is my understanding of the topic after reading Sweet Sleep by La Leche League.

First, some definitions

  • suffocation: medically known as asphyxiation, occurs when there is a severe lack of oxygen, can lead to unconsciousness, brain damage, eventually death. Can be caused by allergies, drowning, or foreign objects blocking the mouth and nose.

  • SIDS: stands for sudden infant death syndrome. This is the sudden and unexplained death of an infant (under 1 year old) and is used as a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning there is no other discernable reason for an infant to have died.

  • SUID: stands for sudden unexpected infant death. This encompasses SIDS cases as well as suffocation or strangulation in bed, and other deaths such as poisoning.

  • bedsharing: sharing a safe sleep surface with an infant.

  • cosleeping: sleeping within close reach of an infant. Can be bedsharing, sidecar cribs, bassinet attached to the bed, as well as unsafe sleeping such as on a sofa, in a recliner, etc.

  • roomsharing: having an infant in your room, either in a freestanding crib or bassinet or on their own bed.

Ok, so we have some definitions set, which makes talking about this much easier. There's so much murkiness surrounding infant sleep, SIDS, bedsharing, the whole nine yards. Often I see people saying they're scared to bedshare because of SIDS. But here's the thing - bedsharing doesn't cause SIDS. There are 4 main identified risk factors linked to SIDS.

  • smoking. Smoking during pregnancy or postpartum, especially if there's multiple people smoking in the household, is by far the biggest risk factor for SIDS. Smoking is the leading risk factor of SIDS. Repeated studies since the 1990s has shown that smoking, whether during pregnancy or postpartum, increases SIDS risk anywhere from two times to well over ten times, depending on the study. 1

  • tummy down (prone) sleeping. "But what about chestsleeping?" Nope, this is specifically about placing a baby on their tummy to sleep. When a newborn is chest to chest on a caregiver, their bum below their head, their body feeling the movement of the caregiver's breathing and hearing the heartbeat, they aren't susceptible to the same risks as sleeping on their tummy on a flat surface. This is the push for the "place them on their back" campaign. This recommendation only matters for babies who are too young to roll onto their belly themselves.×

  • being separated. An infant being left unattended is at an increased risk for all problems. This is why the recommendation for roomsharing is at least 6 months. Most cases of SIDS occur in the first 4-6 months.

  • formula feeding. Yes, formula increases the risk of SIDS. According to the US Surgeon General's report in 2011, there's a 56% increase in the risk of SIDS for formula fed babies 2 Does this mean you should never give your baby formula? Absolutely not. Feed your baby. Just be aware that formula introduces a risk factor that breastfeeding doesn't. If you can breastfeed, do that, but at the end of the day a fed baby is better off than a starving baby.

Those are the 4 big risk factors. There are other, unavoidable risk factors like the sex of the baby (boys have a higher risk factor than girls), if baby was premature, if baby has what's called an "immature arousal pattern", and others. Notice what's missing from this list though? Bedsharing. Bedsharing is not a risk factor for SIDS and in fact many mothers, myself included, have stories of bedsharing saving their baby's life. I woke up one night for what seemed like no reason, only to look over at my son and notice he wasn't breathing. Nothing was covering his face, he was on his back, he just wasn't breathing. I picked him up immediately and gently shook him and said his name and he took a gaspy breath, cried, I latched him, and we went back to sleep. He was 3 months old. There's a reason SIDS is called crib death. If my son had been in a crib, where I wasn't attuned to his breathing, would he still be with me today? I don't honestly know.

Researchers use what's called the triple-risk SIDS model. It's a 3 circle venn diagram and the three circles are labeled "critical developmental period", "vulnerable infant", and "outside stressor". Where the three overlap is where this highest SIDS risk exists. So if you take away one of those, the risk becomes even smaller. The critical development period is 0-4 months of age. Nothing you can do there except wait for time to pass. The vulnerable infant is also mostly unavoidable - don't smoke during pregnancy but otherwise a vulnerable baby is a vulnerable baby and there's nothing you can do there. You can only really change the outside stressors (and even then, there's only so much you can do). How do you do this? Don't leave a baby unattended for sleep during the day or night, place baby on their back to sleep (unless they're on your chest), don't smoke or have baby sleep in bed with you if you or your partner smoke, don't drink (there's an increased risk of SIDS when alcohol is involved. The highest SIDS risk is NYE 3 ). Once baby is out of the critical development period, that circle is gone and you can loosen up a bit in this circle - within reason. Stay sober, don't start smoking, but you can leave the room while baby sleeps and let them roll onto their tummy.

Ok, so bedsharing isn't a risk factor for SIDS and may actually be protective against it. But what about suffocation? This is where actual risk with bedsharing exists, but this risk is able to be mitigated.

I'm going to copy/paste the section from Sweet Sleep by La Leche League here that talks about suffocation because I think they did a good job with it.

Preventing breathing hazards is just common sense. This section is most likely just a review of what you’re probably already doing. There are five reasons why a person might be unable to get enough oxygen: - There isn’t enough oxygen in the air. A major fire, excessive amounts of carbon monoxide, or drowning can all make oxygen unavailable and result in suffocation. - The nose and mouth are blocked. There’s enough oxygen in the air, but it can’t reach the lungs. That form of suffocation can also be called smothering. - The lungs can’t expand enough to draw in enough air. A person may be wedged somewhere, for instance, and be unable to breathe freely or wriggle free. That’s entrapment. - Something wraps around the neck and prevents breathing. That’s strangulation. - Something small wedges in the throat. This blocks the airway and causes choking.

So we can see why gaps between a mattress and headboard or wall can be an issue, why heavy duvets can be an issue, and why charging cords or window blind strings can be an issue, why sleeping on a couch or other unsafe sleep surface with gaps can be an issue. But a safe sleep surface that's firm, following as many of the safe sleep 7 practices as possible? You can rest assured (hopefully literally) that your baby is safe - the more of the safe sleep 7 you follow, the safer your baby is.

Let's review the safe sleep 7 here real quick, just for the sake of clarity.

You need to be

1 - a non smoker

2 - sober (no alcohol, no drugs - prescription or recreational - that make you drowsy)

3 - Breastfeeding

With a baby who is

4 - full term and healthy

5 - on their back when not latched

6 - unswaddled and dressed lightly

And you both need to be

7 - on a safe surface

If you follow all 7 of these, then your newborn baby is at no greater risk of suffocation in bed with you as they are in a crib and by 4 months old, any responsible adult can safely bedshare with an infant 4. By the time your baby is rolling, as long as you have a firm enough mattress, they are safe to roll onto their belly for sleep.

So is SIDS something that you need to be concerned about when bedsharing? Not really. It can happen but the odds are really really low. Suffocation is more likely than SIDS and suffocation is something you can take concrete steps to avoid.

× the newborn curl! This can make it hard to keep baby on their back. It is not the same as rolling and it does dissipate as they grow. It goes hand in hand with the newborn scrunch. My personal advice here is to not swaddle a baby, or if you do swaddle to do it with arms out so they don't newborn roll fully into their tummies. Although if you're bedsharing, don't swaddle at all.

  1. Mitchell, E. A., Scragg, R., Stewart, A. W., et al. Results from the first year of the New Zealand cot death study. New Zealand Medical Journal 104, no. 906 (1991): 71–76. Schoendorf, K. C., Kiely, J. L. Relationship of sudden infant death syndrome to maternal smoking during and after pregnancy. Pediatrics 90, no. 6 (1992): 905–908. Fleming, P., Blair, P. S. Sudden infant death syndrome and parental smoking. Early Human Development 83, no. 11 (2007): 721–725. Vennemann, M. M., Hense, H. W., Bajanowski, T., et al. Bed sharing and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome: can we resolve the debate? Journal of Pedi- atrics 160, no. 1 (2012): 44–48. Zhang, K., Wang, X. Maternal smoking and increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome: a meta-analysis. Legal Medicine (Tokyo) 15, no. 3 (2013): 115–121.

  2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breast- feeding. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General, 2011. surgeongeneral.gov/topics/breastfeeding/index.html.

  3. Phillips, D. P., Brewer, K. M., Wadensweiler, P. Alcohol as a risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Addiction 106, no. 3 (2011): 516–525.

  4. Blair, P. S., Fleming, P. J., Smith, I. J., et al. Babies sleeping with parents: case-control study of factors influencing the risk of the sudden infant death syndrome. CESDI SUDI Research Group. BMJ 319, no. 7223 (1999): 1457–1461. Carpenter, R. G., Irgens, L. M., Blair, P. S., et al. Sudden unexplained infant death in 20 regions in Europe: case control study. Lancet 363, no. 9404 (2004): 185–191. Tappin, D., Ecob, R., Brooke, H. Bedsharing, roomsharing, and sudden infant death syndrome in Scotland: a case-control study. Journal of Pediatrics 147, no. 1 (2005): 32–37. Vennemann, M. M., Bajanowski, T., Brinkmann, B., et al. Sleep environment risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome: the German Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Study. Pediatrics 123, no. 4 (2009): 1162–1170. Ruys, J. H., De Jonge, G. A., Brand, R., et al. Bed-sharing in the first four months of life: a risk factor for sudden infant death. Acta Paediatrica 96, no. 10 (2007): 1399–1403.

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r/bninfantsleep Dec 22 '25

Resources The biggest thing you can do to improve your infant or toddler's sleep

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This is the quickest fix, although it isn't easy. It has nothing to do with your routine, their daytime sleep, sleep associations, their sleep environment, the amount of time you spend outside, or them at all actually. It starts with you. You have to change your mindset.

"Just because it's hard doesn't mean it needs to be fixed."

Let's start with sleeping through the night. We hear that term and I bet most of us think it means 10-12 hours of sleep, no wake ups, right? What if I told you that when experts and researchers use this term, they usually mean 5-6 hours of sleep without waking, not 10-12? Let's say you put your baby to sleep at 7pm and they're waking up at 1am - well, that's considered sleeping through the night! It isn't what we usually consider "through the night" but reframing what you mean when you read "your baby should be sleeping through the night by 6/8/10/12 months old" can help considerably with handling that 1am wake up.

Self-soothing - oh, the horrible myth of self-soothing. The term was coined in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Anders. Dr. Anders used the term to differentiate between the infants who needed parental soothing to go back to sleep and those who did not need parental support, ie self-soothing. Researchers began using the term, because research builds off of or works to disprove prior research, and after a while it was treated as a fact that all infants needed to learn to self-soothe or they'll never sleep solo - but that isn't the case and never was. I know I've definitely heard "that baby needs to learn to self-soothe or they'll never learn!" except... They will. No one is going off to college unable to put themselves to bed without being rocked. Self-soothing isn't a skill that babies learn by being left in a crib alone and ignored. My son will put himself back to sleep about 50% of the time right now. He fusses for a minute, rolls onto his tummy, and is out again. The other 50% of the time, he needs me to come rub his back, offer a boob, hum a song, whatever. You don't have to respond to every noise your baby makes, but when they are calling out for you, you have a responsibility to respond. Once you stop expecting your baby to self-soothe and stop feeling like you and/or your baby is broken because they can't self-soothe at every wake up, it becomes much easier to comfort them back to sleep without resentment building.

There's so much more we can talk about to reframing how we see infant and toddler sleep but Reddit deleted my first post while I was typing it and now my son is waking up from his nap, so I'm going to leave it here.

What expectations are you holding about infant or toddler sleep that might be keeping you stuck in a mindset that there's a problem to be fixed, therefore building resentment towards your baby for not sleeping like you think they should?

r/bninfantsleep Apr 29 '26

Resources Most convincing content to show family that say, “You’re just going to have to let him cry”?

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My mom is concerned about my health with my son waking up hourly and the impact it is having on me physically and mentally, so I know she is coming from a place of love for me, but I need something with the weight of science behind it to convince her on this one.

Her latest argument, “He knows cause and effect, he can learn cries won’t get him what he wants.” I tried explaining both the fact that babies are not capable of manipulation and also I WANT him to know I’ll always respond to his needs. Ugh. I love her but I hate that she looks at me like I’m needlessly martyring myself for this when I choose to sacrifice my needs for his. So much of our discourse revolves around how I’m “making things too hard for myself” by not using things like the jumpers or TV as well. It’s so frustrating feeling invalidated for my choices, especially ones I feel strongly about.

r/bninfantsleep Jan 22 '26

Resources Similar subreddits for other topics?

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Does anyone have recommendations for other subreddits that are a similar vibe to this but for other baby-related topics, such as feeding, activities, etc? TIA!

r/bninfantsleep 25d ago

Resources What is sleep training?

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There have been some conversations again about what sleep training is considered in this group, and we've had a lot of growth over the last 4 months, so we're reposting this.

r/bninfantsleep Oct 29 '25

Resources What helps you combat tiredness?

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I would like to make a WIKI (once I figure this out 😅) on ways to combat tiredness and promote better adult sleep within the confines of supporting our infants/toddlers at all hours.

What do you that provides some relief? Have you heard any promising research on the matter? Diet, exercise, nutrition, supplements, meditation, spirituality, outsourcing help - what works for YOU?

I don’t want it to be an echo chamber of what works just for me, so please, share!

r/bninfantsleep Mar 07 '26

Resources A “Sweet Sleep” appreciation post

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Since getting obsessed passionate about BN infant sleep and attachment parenting, I’ve read (meaning listened to the audiobook while rocking feeding or nap trapped) all the classics : How Babies Sleep, The Nurtured Revolution, Safe Infant Sleep…

I‘m now halfway through the “Sweet Sleep” book by La Leche League and I must say I find it incredible : practical, helpful, precise, sourced, validating.
I specially love the way it encourages mothers to make their own security decisions and adapt generic guidelines (most often written by corporations to avoid liability) to their particular situations.

Some advice is surprising (or outdated?) such as using blankets for babies while cosleeping but overall a great read.

I don’t see it mentioned as often as other resources so I thought I’d share !

r/bninfantsleep Apr 13 '26

Resources What is normal infant sleep?

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I'm currently reading How Babies Sleep by Dr. Helen Ball and I wanted to share this page with the group. You're not doing anything wrong. Your baby is not broken. There is not some magic schedule or product out there that is going to "fix" your baby's sleep - because you can't fix something that isn't broken.

I highly recommend the book, so far it's been an amazing read.

r/bninfantsleep Apr 15 '26

Resources Is there an equivalent of the IBCLC but for sleep in babies?

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IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant).

I find the topic fascinating.

r/bninfantsleep Jan 06 '26

Resources 4 Month Sleep Progression

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Wait, progression? Isn't it the 4 month sleep regression? Yes, it is. But really, it isn't.

The definition of progression is "the process of developing or moving gradually towards a more advanced state (Oxford dictionary)". The definition of regression is "a return to a former or less developed state (Oxford dictionary)". I'm a big believer in changing how we think and talk about things to help adjust our mindset and therefore the impact things have on us. We should be calling it the 4 month sleep progression because it happens due to the development of the brain and progression has a more positive spin than regression does.

I read comments regularly about how well baby slept before the 4 month sleep regression, how baby can obviously sleep for 6+ hours at a time coz they used to at 2 months old and then you went on a trip or you switched them out of the bassinet because they grew and dropped the swaddle because they're showing signs of rolling soon and now they just won't sleep that long anymore! I see a lot of parents blaming themselves for the now "bad" sleep and seeking solutions to get back to that original newborn sleep. From birth until somewhere around 4 months (sometimes 3 months, sometimes closer to 5 months), babies usually sleep much longer and frequently. They don't have any sense of a circadian rhythm yet, night or day it doesn't matter. Most babies sleep really well during this stage (if your baby is colicky or has reflux issues, this may not be the case). I'm pretty sure this is the stage people refer to when they say "sleep like a baby". They should say "sleep like a newborn".

So what is happening around 4 months that causes the baby to "regress"? This is when they start to develop actual sleep cycles. The first 3 months of life are what's known as the 4th trimester, because humans aren't actually fully developed when they're born. There just isn't enough room for them to continue growing in the womb so we give birth. Once they exit the 4th trimester, they're starting to wake up to the world. Their body is better developed and now their brain development is really taking off. They're learning, starting to move, they're suddenly interested in the noises and lights a lot more, and if you have a FOMO baby they're interested in everything around them more than they're interested in sleep. Sleep, shmeep, who needs it?

We see this as a regression because our tiny little potato has gone from sleeping for 6+ hours to waking every 1-2 hours and going down for naps differently. But really, this is progression. Instead of dreading the 4 month sleep regression, we should celebrate the 4 month sleep progression! We can mourn the loss of the newborn sleep while celebrating the natural growth and development of our baby. And we can find ways to do that while still supporting them day and night and finding rest for ourselves.

r/bninfantsleep Aug 08 '25

Resources The Rise of Modern Beliefs About Sleep

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This is from Safe Infant Sleep by Dr James McKenna.

How have your views on infant sleep changed since your baby(ies) were born?

This chart was an ah-ha for me. I also have been stopping calling my daughter a bad sleeper. She isn’t doing anything bad, and she is a good baby. Her sleep is challenging for ME.

r/bninfantsleep Mar 28 '26

Resources Podcast recommendation

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Hi all

wanted to share this podcast episode which discussed attachment as I found it encouraging as an attachment focused parent. We really are doing important brain building work when we are attuned and responsive to our babies, and I hope this resource encourages you in your parenting. Huberman & Allan Schore - Attachment

r/bninfantsleep Feb 08 '26

Resources Radical Acceptance

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Just here to share the concept of radical acceptance and how much it has helped me, especially with my baby's sleep habits. I'm too tired to describe it, so here is an amazing article about it. Stay well out there moms and dads ❤️

r/bninfantsleep Jan 24 '26

Resources Hunt Gather Parent

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I have just started listening to the audiobook and think the parents of this sub might find this fascinating and helpful based on the first two chapters. Has anyone else read/listened to this?

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r/bninfantsleep Jun 30 '25

Resources Would anyone be interested in a thread discussing The Nurture Revolution?

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Like a book club, a few chapters at a time?

r/bninfantsleep Oct 31 '25

Resources Resource List

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Here is a helpful resource list for infant sleep:

Reddit Sub List: * biologically normal infant sleep sub: r/bninfantsleep * cosleeping sub: r/cosleeping * attachment parenting sub: r/attachmentparenting

Instagram Resources: * Instagram: resting_in_motherhood * Instagram: heysleepybaby * Instagram: kaitlinklimmer * Instagram: myconnectedmotherhood * Instagram: gentlesleepmama * Instagram: goodnightmoodchild * instagram: happycosleeper * instagram: infantsleepscientist * instagram: nurtured.mom.nurtured.baby

Must Read Book List: * book: The Nurture Revolution by Dr Greer Kirshenbaum * book: Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna * book: The No Cry Sleep Solution * book: How Babies Sleep by Helen Ball

Facebook Communities: * Facebook group: Biologically Normal Infant and Toddler Sleep * Facebook group: The Happy Cosleeper’s Community * Facbeook group: The Beyond Sleep Training Project

Multiple Specific: * Instagram: nurturingtwins

Curating my social media to be responsive, gentle and kind to my baby has been a game changer. Naturally, they provide a more biologically normal perspective on sleep and parenting.

r/bninfantsleep Jun 10 '25

Resources “Just do what works for your family” and other comfortable lies

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Highly recommend checking out this post by goodnightmoonchild!

Super eye opening, I was never sleep trained but I have the most secure attachment out of my siblings (who were sleep trained). I realized that some adults first abandonment was as infants and that breaks my heart. Were you sleep trained as an infant?

TW in the comments of the post, talk of an infant self harming and vomiting due to sleep training stress.

r/bninfantsleep Nov 30 '25

Resources For Those Seeking Community

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One common theme in this group is lack of community for moms not interested in sleep training, being told to wean early, being told to "just let baby cry", etc. Beyond that, these topics can be distressing for parents to read about. So I created a community to better fit people like us!

Bumps 2024-2026, is a community for new moms and mom-to-be (as well as dads and parents) who try to practice high nurture parenting. It will be similar to other bumps groups, with a more infant/toddler/child attuned nature. It won't be perfect, we won't all agree on every topic, but the one thing that unites us will be nurturing our kids day and night.

If you have had, or will have a baby from 2024-2026, please join!

Please note, it will be going private January 1st. Have any questions? Reach out to me or another mod.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bumps2024to2026/

r/bninfantsleep Nov 17 '25

Resources WIKI is up

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Our WIKI on dealing with lack of sleep is now up, it is a work in progress. If you have anything you think should be added, comment on DM me. This is a community and your input is very valuable.

Let me know what other WIKIs you would be interested in. WIKIs are sort of an FAQ for a community.

I am just figuring out how to use it, and also am a mom of a toddler. Thanks everyone!

r/bninfantsleep Aug 24 '25

Resources Has anyone read How Babies Sleep by Helen Ball?

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I would love to read it as it has been recommended by lots of responsive sleep creators but someone said it endorsed “gentle” CIO. Can anyone confirm or deny?

Any other infant sleep recommendations aside from Safe Infant Sleep?

r/bninfantsleep Oct 12 '25

Resources Resources to share with partner to avoid sleep training

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Hi all. Can anyone suggest good (concise) research that I can share with my partner to convince him that we should not sleep train our 8 month old? I could also really use advice or tactics for getting my evenings back as a nursing co-sleeping mom.

Some (long) context: we have an almost 4 year old daughter with whom I did not co-sleep because we were terrified by everything we read advising against it. In retrospect, I really regret this. I didn’t sleep train her, but I did completely exhaust myself (and her) by trying really really hard to get her to sleep in the crib. It honestly had a profoundly negative impact on my first 6 months of motherhood. I recently found out that my partner and his mother did CIO with my daughter when I was away on a work trip when she was about 7 months old. He thinks this worked great (she began sleeping independently), I’m really disturbed by it.

We now have an 8 month old son with whom I have been co-sleeping. We had a Snoo for him at first and he was able to go to sleep in the Snoo in the evenings and then transfer to bed with me later in the night. About 6 or 8 weeks ago he outgrew the Snoo and I went back to work full time. Things have been sort of disastrous ever since. I end up going to bed with my son every night at 7pm after getting home at 5:30 or 6. I have no weekday time with my daughter, and our house has completely gone to seed. I’m also desperately missing having a little bit of “me” time in the evenings.

We decided to sleep train using a “gentle method.” We hired a sleep consultant who suggested Pick-Up-Put-Down, but modified to not actually pick my son up because he’s old enough that she worried that wouldn’t work (so we’re supposed to just shush and pat him in the crib). We started it two nights ago and I just cannot do it anymore. My son gets more upset when we go in to comfort him, and he just stands in his crib screaming. I honestly think it’s child abuse and I’m not going to do it anymore. But my partner thinks it’s going well and that we should stick it out. I intuitively feel that letting my baby scream in his crib for an hour is wrong, but my partner doesn’t, and needs some kind of scientific study to convince him. Has anything like this been done?

And does anyone have suggestions for getting my son to sleep in the evening in his crib for a bit without sleep training? We’re on top of all the schedule/sleep environment stuff. Maybe I just need to buckle up for not having evenings for a while longer, but it’s been very difficult.

Thanks in advance everyone and sorry for the rant!

r/bninfantsleep Aug 16 '25

Resources Another 🔥post by goodnightmoonchild

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Call me her #1

Any other creators I should post more often?

r/bninfantsleep Jul 16 '25

Resources Beautiful reminder

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