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Helpful Sleep Information: All in One Place!
Nightmares and Night Terrors
Is your child waking at night complaining of nightmares? Are they waking and screaming with no relief? Find out the difference between nightmares and night terrors, and what you should do for both.
Trick or Treat…..and Sleep!
How to Manage Halloween Festivities and Keep Your Little Pumpkin Well-Rested
Back-to-School: Sleep Edition
Preparing to send our kids back to school comes with a lot of tasks and we often forget about simple essentials for our children’s learning success. One of those essentials is their sleep!
Your Baby’s Sleep and the Time Change
Daylight Saving comes to an end on November 5th. Make sure your little one is falling back without their sleep falling apart!
Survive the 4 Month Sleep Regression
The 4-month sleep regression is a doooozy! Don’t let it get the best of you. Instead, make it work for you. Check out these 5 easy steps to turn this regression into PROgression!
Spring Forward: Adjusting Your Child’s Sleep for Daylight Saving Time
Are you slightly or majorly concerned about how your little one’s sleep will be impacted by the Daylight Saving time change ahead? Find out what you can do to keep sleep from falling apart in your home!
Sickness & Sleep
It’s a story many moms and dads can relate to in so many ways. Your baby gets sick in the middle of the night and you wonder how you are going to deal with it.
Can You Bring Back the Toddler Nap?
How do you know that your non-napping toddler could start using a nap again? Follow along on a personal story where I, your sleep consultant, feels the squeeze of my toddler not napping and decides something must change. The nap must come back.
Setting Boundaries with a Toddler
Setting boundaries with our toddlers (and children in general), is one of the hardest skills we, as parents, have to do. Practicing those skills early on will be beneficial for our families.
Melatonin…Should I give It to My Child?
Child or baby not sleeping? One recommendation that is often found on social media mom groups is “just give them melatonin!” Could this be the answer? It is far more risky than it seems.
A New Perspective
Why your child needs not only the right amount of sleep, but they need to sleep at the right time.
Separation Anxiety
You finally feel like you are getting the hang of this parenting thing and out of nowhere, your baby starts to panic just about every time you leave them.
Fostering Good Sleep for Your Baby While Traveling
While planning for outfits to wear, toys to bring, and where you will eat while you’re traveling, you might mistakenly let one topic slip your mind: sleep.
Talking to Daycares
If you are looking to put your baby, toddler, or child in a daycare, discussing your child’s sleep needs with a daycare may seem like a daunting task! Here’s how you can advocate for your child.
Common Sleep Mistakes Parents Make
Let’s take a look at the top 6 sleep mistakes that I see parents making. Could you be a Motel 6er? Perhaps you might be part of a group of Inharmonious Guardians. Let’s find out!
Attachment & Sleep Training
One of the biggest reasons why parents are hesitant about sleep training, by far, is their concern about the attachment they have with their children. They ask “won’t sleep training negatively affect the attachment my child has to me?”
Navigating Other’s Opinions on Your Decision to Sleep Train
When navigating other’s opinions on your decision to sleep train, it is so important to go understand the “why”.
Snoring Babies: Cute or Concerning?
If a baby is snoring or mouth breathing regularly, this could be causing most of their sleep problems and it should be checked out by a pediatrician before starting any type of sleep training
Sleep Association: Nursing to Sleep
There I sat. I was in my bed with my husband next to me snoring away like nothing was wrong as if I hadn’t been up and down all night tending to a screaming baby. My son was 9 months old and was waking up hungry every hour of every single night.