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month or so seems like salvation.”
    Tammy, mother of seven-month-old Brooklyn

    Introduction
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    day she was born, and she’d be perfectly happy to keep things as they are. The goal is to help her feel loved and secure while you help her find ways to fall asleep without you.
    In summary, I don’t believe a baby should be left alone to cry himself to sleep. Or even left to cry as you pop in every ten minutes to murmur comforting words without reaching out to touch him. But I also know that you can—gently and lovingly—help your baby to sleep peacefully all night long.

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    Ten Steps to Helping Your Baby
    Sleep All Night
    This section of the book will cover the steps to follow as you create your own sleep solution. You may want to use this page as a checklist as you go through the steps:
    ٗ Step One: Do a Safety Check (page 27)
    ٗ Step Two: Learn Basic Sleep Facts (page 41)
    ٗ Step Three: Create Your Sleep Logs (page 53)
    ٗ Step Four: Review and Choose Sleep Solutions
    (Newborns—page 64; Babies from Four Months—page 89)
    ٗ Step Five: Create Your Personal Sleep Plan (page 159)
    ٗ Step Six: Follow Your Plan for Ten Days (page 169)
    ٗ Step Seven: Do a Ten-Day Log (page 173)
    ٗ Step Eight: Analyze Your Success (page 177) and revise your plan as necessary
    ٗ Step Nine: Follow Your Plan for Ten More Days (page 205)
    ٗ Step Ten: Complete a Log, Analyze Your Success, and Revise Your Plan as Necessary Every Ten Days (page 215)
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    Do a Safety Check
    Because you haven’t had quality sleep since before pregnancy or since your new baby entered your life, you may feel that nothing is more important right now than getting a full night’s sleep. But there is indeed something much more important than sleep: your baby’s safety. So it’s critical that we start there.
    In their quest for a few more minutes of shut-eye, well-intentioned, but sleep-deprived parents make mistakes. I have heard and read about many situations in which parents put their babies in unsafe situations, all in the name of a few hours of sleep. Here are a few of those stories. I’ve listed only those with happy endings—but sadly, many other stories end differently.
    • Parents of a newborn knew they shouldn’t have their fluffy quilt in bed with the baby, but they were cold without it.
    One night, the mother woke to find that her baby had bur-rowed under the heavy quilt.
    • One baby’s mother was so elated when her baby fell asleep on the sofa that she left him there to nap while she went to work at her computer. A loud thump had her running to the family room where she found her baby crying on the floor.
    • A mother with a baby who refused to nap admitted that when her baby fell asleep in the car seat, she left her to sleep in the garage while she went in to make dinner. She didn’t want to risk waking her up by moving her to her crib.
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    The No-Cry Sleep Solution
    • Parents of a baby boy received a beautiful antique crib with an ornate headboard from relatives. They’d intended to investigate the safety features of the crib but hadn’t gotten around to it. One night, their screaming baby woke them.
    They ran quickly to his room and found him wedged
    between the headboard and the mattress.
    Many of the safety mistakes that parents make are because of poor decisions, while others are because of a lack of knowledge.
    You need to know a lot when it comes to your baby’s safety. In this important chapter, you’ll learn the need-to-know things about your baby’s sleep-related safety.
    Safety First
    Yes, you’re tired, too tired perhaps to read through the vast body of information, research, and guidelines out there on the subject of safety. Maybe you’ll get to it soon, but your good intentions are not enough to keep your baby safe, and you need this information right now.
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