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A Dear Momma Baby Guide
Nights, naps, and the nuance — your plan for baby sleep
The plan is for the adults.
For the long nights: three ways to answer at night, chosen in daylight by you, always within safe-sleep guidance.
What it’s costing you
It’s 3 a.m., you’re on your fourth video, and every method contradicts the last one. The not-sleeping is hard. Not knowing what you’re doing about it is harder.
Why it works
The plan is for the adults: you decide in daylight how you’ll answer at night, and you stay safe, steady and consistent. No plan outranks what you can see in your own baby, and safe sleep is never up for debate.
Use it tonight
“Just let them cry.”
“We’ve chosen how we answer at night, and that’s what we’re doing.”
“You’re making a rod for your own back.”
“Maybe. It’s our back.”
“They’re hungry.”
“They might be. Our pediatrician is helping us know which feeds they still need.”
from Steady Nights
All the way through
Three playbooks (responsive without a method, the slow fade, timed check-ins), and how to choose between them. Night feeds and your stretch, two adults on one night or only you, naps, the 4:45 start, and the first two weeks, night by night.
What changes
A plan chosen in daylight, not at 3 a.m.
Three approaches laid side by side, so you can pick the one you can live with.
A shared plan for the adults, or a plan for when it’s only you.
A two-week log, so you can see what’s actually happening.
What’s inside
For the rest of tonight
How a night loses its shape
Safe sleep, word for word
Before you choose
Playbook one: responsive, without a method
Playbook two: the slow fade
Playbook three: timed check-ins
No plan outranks what you can see
Night feeds and your stretch
Two adults, one night
When it’s only you at night
Naps
The 4:45 start
The first two weeks, night by night
My Sleep Plan + the Two-Week Log
Who it’s for
For baby sleep in the first eighteen months. Every plan sits inside safe-sleep guidance, and your doctor is the one to ask about your baby.
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