01/04/2025
A sleep association is any behavior that helps you fall asleep. For adults, it could be a pillow that you cannot sleep without or a bedtime routine that you must do before dozing off. It is the same with babies. They connect certain things or activities to sleep and can be dependent on those sleep associations to fall asleep.
A baby that falls asleep relying on parents to perform sleep associations by rocking, reinserting a pacifier, or feeding to sleep will be dependent on these sleep associations to be back to sleep the same way if they wake up in the middle of the night or in between sleep cycles.
Independent sleep learning can help break these unsustainable sleep associations by replacing them with positive sleep associations that can optimize baby's sleep.
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