Weaning and Sleeping by Jo Tantum

Jo Tantum is the UK's No 1 baby sleep expert. Her best-selling book Baby Secrets is available at all good bookstores and also available through Amazon.

Your baby needs to learn good sleeping habits from the beginning. If she’s not sleeping it’s because they may have sleep props and bad sleep associations. Weaning your baby early will not ‘cure’ the sleep problem, it will just continue.

Teaching your baby to go to sleep by themselves is the key. And when your baby is ready then you can wean her using Annabel’s books and tips. It is a very exciting time for you and your baby and shouldn’t be rushed because you think it will help your baby to sleep through the night.

So enjoy introducing solids to your baby and all those exciting different tastes and textures. Your baby will sleep through the night when you teach them the confidence to be in their cot and drift off to sleep alone, follow a bedtime routine and also all of my other sleep tips.