07/10/2025                                                                            
                                    
                                                                            
                                            Let’s get this straight.
Babies aren’t “learning not to cry” through supportive sleep training.
This is a devastatingly damaging claim with no proof when related to supportive sleep training. 
You’re not teaching your baby that you “won’t come” you’re still responding day and night. 
You’re guiding, supporting, and helping them develop new sleep skills ones that are supportive of healthy sleep habits and ones that are sustainable not withdrawing love or care.
Attachment isn’t determined by a single approach to sleep. In fact our children’s mental and emotional well-being is largely dependent on rest, repair, restore.
Attachment is an ongoing relationship, built through thousands of everyday/night moments of connection, comfort, and responsiveness.
There are no“silent homes” Most people would know somebody who has done sleep training and I know for a fact after 11 years and tens of thousands of clients no one ever told me their baby just didn’t cry any more and that was that. Supportive sleep training is simply changing what they associate or have become reliant on to get to sleep when it is no longer serving them. It is simply changing a pattern actually I would love to call it sleep remembering instead of sleep training. Little ones are born with the ability to sleep but when we continuously play certain roles and those things become a problematic learned pattern or association it’s is reminding them they don’t need to cry every 2 hours for the same habit. They can get into restful sleep. 
The number one determinant of a child’s attachment and long-term outcomes is maternal well-being.
Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest contributors to postpartum anxiety, depression, and difficulty bonding.
When parents are supported and rested, they can show up calmer, more regulated, and more attuned  and that’s what builds secure attachment.
Supportive sleep work isn’t about leaving your baby, it’s about helping the whole family thrive.
Let’s stop the fear. Let’s stop the guilt. Let’s support both babies and parents.