Slumber solutions for babies and kids
Nighttime sleep plagues most new parents, and a lot of parents as the weeks, months and years go on. Joan lends her experience and training to help families get more sleep.
So, you’ve decided you and your baby are ready for sleep training! You may feel like the right time to sleep train is ASAP – before the sleepless nights drive you even crazier…
GREAT! That’s what we’re here for. But, we want to make sure when you do the work to sleep train, it sticks. Timing is everything. Sometimes finding the right time to sleep train, even if it means more wakeful nights, will allow the consistency it takes to be successful.
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It’s exciting to think about getting your baby to sleep through the night. The best time to sleep train is when your baby is ready, and that involves reaching a few important milestones first.
After 16 weeks, a baby’s circadian rhythm has usually developed, and most children at this age will sleep more during the night hours than the day. By this time, your baby will also be able to practice self-soothing and go for longer stretches without feeding. These skills will allow them to help themselves sleep, which reduces their discomfort as they learn to sleep by themselves.
Sleep training can get a bad rep- but we call it that because babies need our help learning how to use these milestone skills to sleep at night. And while traditional sleep training (think cry it out) isn’t for every family, sleep is a basic human need, even if you have a baby. However you choose to help your baby learn to sleep- whether you’re comfy with tears or choose a method with less crying- sleep training is really just sleep learning.
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When that first baby arrives, most of us don’t think about sleep associations. During those early weeks, you feed, rock, swing or bounce and your little one will usually fall asleep. You may also be swaddling your baby and turning on that sound machine, too. All those things are sleep associations, and in the beginning they’re great because your baby needs you to be actively involved in the process of falling asleep. By the time babies are a few months old, however, they’re a little more independent and very capable of falling asleep without you being so actively involved. Read more
Most parents know that an early and consistent bedtime, along with a bedtime routine, are the essential ingredients for a good night’s sleep. Did you know that your morning routine is just as important in the development of your baby or toddler’s sleep/wake cycle? Read more
It’s easy to confuse night terrors and nightmares, especially if your child has never experienced either of these scary sleep disturbances. They’re actually quite different from one another. Learn the facts about both and how you can help a child experiencing either night terrors or nightmares.