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![]() ![]() On average, I have found it’s closer to 2-3 weeks though. Pick Up Put Down can take anywhere from 5 days to 3 weeks to see consistent changes. Tracy even says herself that this method can be “darn hard” and can be taxing for one parent to do it solely on their own. Listen to your child’s sounds-if they are just fussing, give them some time and space to see if they can get settled on their own firstĥ. ![]() Start with a soothing wind down or pre sleep routine and implement it before you begin the sleep training part.ģ. Make sure you as the parent are well-rested before you begin, so that you have the energy to see it through to the end.Ĥ. ![]() A few tips for success:ġ. Ensure your child is on a great sleep routine and bedtime is age appropriate.Ģ. However, laying a child down every time they sit up can quickly become a game or incredibly frustrating for them, so you would need to reassess if that was happening with your child. Tracy advocates this method be used from 4-8 months of age and after that, you wouldn’t pick your child up anymore, but just gently lay them down in the crib each time they sat up. You would repeat this process until your child settled down in their crib and eventually went to sleep. If your child continued to get worked up and needed your help, you would return to the room and pick your child up for a minute or two to settle them down (the pick up part) and then lay them back down (the put down part) still awake. Download the Sleeping Through The Night Guide. Get extra tips to help your baby sleep better. If you’re child began to cry to the point of making you uncomfortable, you follow a “stop, wait and listen” approach. If your child wasn’t fussing (or their sounds didn’t make you uncomfortable), you would leave the room. (Like all sleep training methods, this is an important component. Pick Up, Put Down: The MethodĮssentially with PU/PD, you would do your wind down routine and lay your child down still awake. However, we must make sure the child’s daytime routine matches their biological sleep windows, otherwise what results is overtired crying.Īnother factor to contemplate is that while this is considered a gentle sleep training method, if your child doesn’t like a lot of engagement, it will result in a lot frustrated tears in the first few days. But it’s important to decide for yourself.įrom my experience, clients choose this method in the hopes of reducing tears. Tracy calls this approach “middle of the road” and some people feel it falls under the category of “gentle” methods while others feel this approach is very confusing for children and frustrating for all involved. Pick Up, Put Down which is most notably advocated by Tracy Hogg in her book Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with your Baby, offers parents another alternative to Fading. Part Four in our Sleep Training Series offers parents another slower or “gentle” sleep training plan called Pick Up, Put Down or PU/PD for short. ![]()
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