“Cry-It-Out” is the act of leaving a child crying alone in a room without responding to them in some capacity. Under this definition, even Ferber methods and phase-in methods include varying elements of “Cry-It-Out”.

Conversely, our method provides you with techniques and strategies that ensure you’re always able to respond to your child in some meaningful capacity, thereby reinforcing to your child that you’re always there for them if and when they need.

We guarantee that your child will be able spend the whole night in their own bed, and that they will not need to be rocked, bounced, held, or fed to sleep. Further, we will work with you to establish age-appropriate feeding and sleeping patterns. We make a commitment to you that these guarantees will be met without using any ‘cry-it-out’ tactics, and that we will support your child in sleep until they turn 6 years old – if at any point you feel these guarantees are not being met, you can ask for a complete refund.

Your commitment

We take our responsibility to you seriously. This is why we have the guarantees we do, as well as this long-term commitment to you and your child. However, for us to be able to do right by you, we need your full support and commitment.

As a simple condition to the refund, we ask you to commit to attending or watching each of our calls over the course of the two weeks.

Sometimes life gets in the way: you get sick, your child gets sick or you miss a call. We understand, and we are here to support you. We will give you access to the recordings of any calls you are unable to attend. We will also provide you with the ability to pause and rejoin at your convenience.

Firstly, the Batelle Process works equally well for nap and night time. They are both based on the same relationship a child has with sleep, even if difficulties are manifesting at one time rather than another. Once a child has mended their relationship with sleep, both naps and night-time will be easier, more predictable and less disrupted by inevitable changes that happen down the line.

With regards to night weaning and pacifier weaning, these are both things that we can provide help with in conjunction with the program – we take a holistic approach to solving your child’s sleep struggles and are more than happy to help with anything that could be affecting their sleep, weaning included.

For younger children, interventions are more pre-emptive and proactive rather than ‘training’. Babies are fantastic learners and begin to make conclusions about how to sleep from the moment they are born. While some steps of the process are reserved for certain ages to respect a child’s developmental capacity to process changes in a healthy way, many steps can be applied straight away, even for newborns. In addition, learning about your baby’s sleep needs as early as possible can prevent unnecessary struggles later on.

Ultimately, 99% of sleep training is sleep training the parents – not the child. You can’t sleep train a newborn, but you can most certainly sleep train parents…

Batelle teaches parents to overcome problems with sleep in a gentle, supportive, and enriching manner. There are many misconceptions about sleep, starting with how sleep problems are considered by many as unsolvable. Children need to sleep, and yet they often wake up multiple times during the night or resist going to sleep in the first place. This is not an inevitable factor of childhood; rather, it stems from a fundamental misalignment of how a child feels safe in relation to sleep.

Our primary goal is to repair and reframe your child’s relationship with sleep, teaching them to feel safe and foster a sense of trust in the sleep process. When a child feels safe and has clear expectations around sleep, they will stop fighting sleep and will naturally begin to sleep through the night.

Batelle’s method is both co-sleeping and contact-napping friendly, even as your baby gets older.

A lot of methods state that you cannot co-sleep or contact nap; however, this is only because results will always be fragile if you do not focus on helping a child to feel safe. If you teach a child a habit, such as in the cry-it-out method, the child will learn that they need to figure things out for themselves and won’t be comforted when they cry. If that child were to go back to co-sleeping, they would feel a sense of safety again. If you then tried to put them back in their own bed, you would need to “re-teach” the expectation that they will not receive comfort in relation to sleep.

Conversely, the Batelle method teaches children to fundamentally trust that sleep is a safe place, and provides parents with the tools to have flexibility around co-sleeping and contact-napping, as both spaces will be safe spaces for them (should you wish to retain any of these elements).

If you need help with anything sleep related after you have graduated from Batelle Babies, such as sleep regressions or disruptions, you can reach out to the team free of charge until your child is six years old. We see this as a sleep “insurance” of sorts offered as part of the service.

Because our goal is to repair your child’s sleep for the long-term, our method is a resilient and sustainable solution that is able to weather inevitable life changes. When sleep is approached with the consideration of a child’s underlying need to feel safe, the understanding and trust they build up is something they hold onto for the rest of their lives.

It does! Some of the early steps can be easily applied to both babies at once, whereas, later steps will require individualized attention, so we do advise you to either have two caregivers helping out during the process, or work with one child through the program after the other.

We are a currently in the (long!) process of being awarded FDA approval. This will help our Batelle families to claim the cost of Batelle on their insurance / FSA / HSA.

Yes. At Batelle, we like to work directly with pediatricians to help provide patients and their families with the best and most personalized service possible – do have your pediatrician get in touch! Pediatricians also provide the means to help Batelle’s eligibility for your insurance/FSA/HSA coverage. Visit our pediatrician page to learn more