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Why a consistent wakeup time is crucial for your child's sleep.
Why a Consistent Morning Wake-Up Time Is Crucial for Children's Sleep Health If your child struggles with falling asleep, stayi...
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What is a "false start"? A guide for tired parents.
What is a "False Start"? A Guide for Tired Parents If you are a parent navigating the world of baby sleep, you’ve likely hear...
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Why "drowsy but awake" is confusing for you and your baby.
The “Drowsy But Awake” Trap: Why Your Baby Needs to Go Down More Awake Than You Think. Few sleep phrases have cause...
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Partial rousing between sleep cycles - and how it affects your child's sleep.
Navigating baby sleep can sometimes feel like trying to decode a secret language. One of the most jarring things for parents to...
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When is the best time to ditch the bottle for your toddler?
When to Ditch the Bottle: A Guide for Parents As a Sleep Sense Consultant, one of the most common questions I receive from pare...
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Room sharing - Do's and don'ts.
The Do's and Don'ts of Room Sharing with Your Baby: A Guide for Parents As a Sleep Sense Consultant, I understand that room sha...
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Managing a social life after sleep training.
Navigating Evenings Out Without Sacrificing Your Baby's Sleep After working hard to get your little one sleeping well with a Sl...
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How Co-regulation can help a child manage bedtime anxiety.
Understanding Co-regulation Co-regulation refers to the process where an adult helps a child manage and understand their emotio...
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The Resting Brain: It Works Harder Than You Think.
While our bodies rest, our brains embark on an intricate journey each night. Far from being idle, the brain during sleep enga...
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Understanding Night Terrors in Children: A Guide for Parents
As a Child Sleep Consultant, one of the most distressing concerns I encounter from parents involves night terrors. Understand...
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Transitioning to daytime nutrition after 6 months of age.
Transitioning to Daytime Nutrition After 6 Months Once your baby reaches six months old, nighttime feedings often become less a...
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Motherhood and the Myth of Perfect Baby Sleep: Practical Tips for Easing Anxiety
As a mother, it's natural to want the best for your child - including their sleep, especially if you've worked hard to create ...
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Introducing Your Newborn to Your Toddler
Congratulations, you! If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve either just welcomed a new addition to you...
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Preparing for the Start of Daylight Savings
Daylight Savings is here! Most parents don’t mind it so much when they are gaining an extra hour, but it sends shivers through...
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Extinction Bursts
If you’re planning on addressing your little one’s sleep issues, I want to prepare you for something. It’s possible that thing...
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5 Reasons Your Kids Need More Sleep
Did you know that March is National Sleep Awareness Month? Or is that something that’s only celebrated by sleep nerds like mys...
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Tips For The End of Daylight Savings
The end of daylight savings time is coming up soon. Every year I get a TON of questions asking for the best way to handle ...
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Are You Addicted to the Baby Monitor?
Baby monitors have certainly come a long way! But are you stopping your little one from learning the sleep skills they need by ...
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How to Make Sleep a Priority This Year
Hi there. How has 2023 started off for you? I know it's tradition to make your new years resolutions at the very start of the...
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Back To School Tips
Alright, let me just start off here by saying, honestly and sincerely, no judgment for what might have gone down over the ...
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Getting Your Toddler to Stay in Their Room
For many parents, getting their baby to sleep through the night is a life-changing event. I know it certainly was for me. Wakin...
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Maintaining Healthy Sleep Habits While Travelling
When you’re planning a family holiday with a baby, an important thing to consider is how your travel plans are going to affec...
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Eight Tips for Overcoming Jet Lag
So you’re traveling. Across several time zones. With a baby. I salute you, intrepid traveler, because this is not a task f...
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What To Do When A Drowsy Baby Won't Sleep
Just about every sleep book on the market talks about the word “drowsy.” If we're working with newborns, for example, many book...
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Red Light, Blue Light, What's The Big Deal?
I can’t remember where I saw it, but I distinctly recall Matthew McConaughey talking about the simplicity of raising a baby, ...
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Why Does My Baby Take Such Short Naps?
Here’s a little “Would you rather...” scenario specifically for the parents out there. Would you rather have your baby waki...
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Why Won't My Baby Sleep Through The Night?
Let’s be real here. When we get right down to the heart of the matter, this is the question you really need an answer to, am I ...
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Sleepy False Starts
I’m guessing we all know what I’m referring to here, and that I’m not using industry jargon when I refer to a “false start,” b...
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How Light and Darkness Affect Sleep
Quick, without looking it up, what’s the opposite of nocturnal? We all know what nocturnal means, right? Animals that sleep in...
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Can You Sleep Train While Co-Sleeping?
I get it. I really do. After all, I’m a mother myself. The absolutely primal and uncontrollable impulse to stay close to yo...
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Night Time Toilet Training
This is it, mums. This is the final boss. The last level. The icing on the parenting cake. Well, I suppose you still have ...
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Staying On Track With A New Baby
So, first off, congratulations! You’ve either just welcomed a new baby into the house, or you’re about to shortly. What wonder...
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What If Baby Looks Uncomfortable?
I don’t know if I’m biased or not, but to me, the sight of a sleeping baby is the most peaceful, comforting image I can imagin...
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Essential Oils
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the stories surrounding essential oils and aromatherapy. If you’re living on this planet and hav...
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I think a lot of parents experience a new level of fear when their little one is born. This precious, fragile little thing is ...
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Switching To A Big Kid Bed
When it comes to making the transition from a cot to a big-kid bed, there are two questions that need to be answered. T...
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Juggling Bedtime Routines
Bringing a new baby into the house is a glorious, exciting, terrifying occasion, especially when you have one or two already...
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Why Naps Suck
I hope that title didn’t scare you off, because I don’t mean to say that naps inherently suck. Naps are fantastic! Even as adu...
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How to Create a Sleep Sanctuary for Your Child
One of the easiest things you can do to help get your child sleeping through the night is to create what I like to call a ‘slee...
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Is Melatonin Safe For Children?
Back when I was a kid, there was an ad that ran pretty frequently on daytime television for a book called, “The Doctors Book of...
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Snoring and Mouth Breathing in Children
I used to think that snoring babies were absolutely adorable. After all, what better indicator is there that your baby is fast ...
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Who Should Put Baby To Bed?
I’m going to get a little out of my comfort zone for this blog and do something I wouldn’t typically do. I’m going to speculat...
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Sleep Training Tips for Additional Needs Children
I don't think it's controversial to say that bringing up a baby is some seriously, seriously hard work. Think of the hours, the...
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Can You Sleep Train While Breastfeeding?
When I was expecting my first child, I probably did more reading than I did throughout my entire medical career. I was determi...
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Why Consistency is Key When Sleep Training
The right sleep training method is one that works for both you and your baby, and one that you can commit to. When considering ...
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Attachment Parenting and Sleep Training
I’m hoping that I might be able to change some minds here today. It won’t be easy, obviously, because when is it ever? But on p...
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How Sleep Deprivation Affects Your Relationship
What is it about having a lousy night’s sleep that makes everyone else seem so awful? It feels that way, doesn’t it? You have a...
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Eight Tips for Easing Separation Anxiety
Raising kids is a high-stakes responsibility, and in this age of social media and easy access to information about anything and...
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Wondering About 'The Wonder Weeks'?
Have you ever woken up to the sound of a crying baby and thought to yourself, “That’s it. This week, I’m taking some action. T...
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Why Does My Child Wake Up So Early?
That right there might be the single most common question new parents ask. Is it a developmental milestone? A regression? Are ...
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