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Q: When we were raising our babies (now 20- and 30-somethings), we followed the Ferber method, popularized by Richard Ferber, who instructed parents to let their children cry at night for gradually ...

Utter the words “sleep training” and a feeling of dread shoots through most parents. In popular culture, “sleep training” is often synonymous with leaving a baby to cry for longer and longer periods ...

Since becoming a mother, Jenn Wong had followed all the usual baby sleep advice for her son. She kept his room pitch-black and ran a white-sound machine. She made sure her son had a consistent bedtime ...

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Among the many challenges parents face, arguably the most difficult is setting a sleep schedule for a new baby. Getting an infant to sleep at specific times can seem almost impossible, and each child ...