One of the easiest things you can do to help get your child sleeping through the night is to create a “sleep sanctuary”. Essentially, this is creating an environment for your child that is very calming & comfortable. When you bring your child into this room, you want them to immediately understand that this is…
It is really tricky when after months (or even years) of sleep issues you finally decide to take the big step and you begin making changes with your baby’s sleep and routine. You are making progress and the whole family is starting to see longer periods of consolidated sleep and then there is a sudden…
The Importance of Parents Getting Enough Sleep for Parenting Success Parenting is demanding and exhausting, and it is easy for parents to neglect their own sleep in the process. However, parents need sufficient sleep to function at their best and to provide the care and attention their children require. The lack of sleep can affect…
Sleep offers us the space to rejuvenate the body and it is obviously vital to our health and well-being. We all know that when we don’t get enough sleep, we can get short-tempered and irritable. A study from the University of Pennsylvania showed that subjects who experienced even partial sleep deprivation reported feelings of…
I get asked this question a lot, and there could be varying answers. Firstly, the clinical one. If your child is six months or older, gaining weight as expected, and your doctor says you’re okay to end nighttime feeds, then go ahead and give it a shot. But that doesn’t really answer your question, does…
If there’s anything that can send your child’s sleep off the rails, it is, without a doubt, the dreaded outplay of ‘overtiredness’. Babies and children, as with all of us, have a natural rhythm when it comes to sleep. Our bodies secrete hormones to keep us up and running during the day, and different ones…
That right there might be the single most common question new parents ask. Is it a developmental milestone? A regression? Are they getting too much sleep during the day, or not enough? Maybe they’re just hungry. Maybe they’re too hot, or too cold. Well, the truth is that it could be any of those things,…