Gently Sleep Training Your Toddler With The Michi Method
Sleep training your toddler? How gently sleep training a toddler with The Michi Method is different.
The Michi Method is a gentle way of sleep training. The technique differs from other sleep training methods because it focuses on encouraging sleep without leaving your child alone. The Michi Method is effective for toddlers because it is not about following a strict set of rules; instead, it is about understanding your child’s needs. In this post, I will teach you how gentle sleep training a toddler is different and how to adapt it to your unique toddler.
What is the Michi Method?
There are many ways to sleep train. There are gentle ways and not-so-gentle ways. The Michi method is a gentle sleep training method. You remain with your child, and at a pace that works for your unique toddler, you’ll get less and less involved. As you get less involved, your toddler becomes more independent. These steps are the perfect size for you and your child, making progress easy, and you’re not left with that icky feeling.
The Michi Method for Toddlers
The Michi Method is a gentle sleep training technique designed to help children become more independent sleepers by working with their unique needs. This method teaches parents how to become less involved as their child falls asleep. We start by making the child feel safe and comfortable in their own bed. We ensure they get to bed when they’re not under or overtired. Falling asleep is easier when your child is relaxed and nicely unwound. We want this to be as easy for your family. This method allows you to pick up your child whenever they ask for help (often when they’re crying), and you can soothe them however you want to. Yep, rocking, talking, and singing is all okay.
So, how does the technique work if you’re offering so much help?
When you use cry it out, step one is to lay your child down in their bed, awake and leave them to figure out how to fall asleep. That’s a huge step. With The Michi Method, step one may slow down any movement if you’re rocking them to sleep or stop a feed a second or two earlier if you feed them to sleep. As you stopped a teeny tiny bit earlier, your child is not relying on help to get all the way asleep. The last few seconds are with less help. If we continue to get less and less involved, your child becomes slowly but surely more independent over time. At some stage of The Michi Method, laying your child down in their bed awake happens, but it’s not step one, it’s probably not even in the top 10, but it happens.
Sleep training is the process of teaching your child how to sleep in their bed. The goal is to help them to sleep in their bed without any external stimulus. This can be done by gradually reducing the help you currently give, or you can just stop. What’s easier?
How do you learn best? How does your child learn best?
Conclusion.
You spend all day creating a secure attachment with your child, which shouldn’t stop because the sun goes down! You’ve probably been led to believe that sleep training involves lots of tears, but it doesn’t have to. Studies show that parents prefer to pick up and hold their children and help them when they cry. It’s your natural instinct. Let’s not go against that.
It is possible to get a better night’s sleep without cry it out, even for your toddler. You just need to know the small gentle steps to take.
