We're trying to teach you to fall asleep by yourself. That's the premise of a book Dr. Stein recommended called "on becoming baby wise."
The idea is that parents need to establish a schedule and get the baby to conform to it. It helps stabilize their feeding/wake/sleep cycles which leads them to sleep all night. It takes about a week for the baby to adapt to the process.
The hard part is getting the baby's buy-in on the process. Instead of going to sleep, babies will cry for awhile. The book says this is normal and we should just let them cry, as long as nothing is physically wrong with them (wet diaper, bad position, etc.) The biggest problem is getting Mom to let you cry.
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