Common Sleep Challenges
Joan addresses common sleep challenges and how you can resolve them in your home.
Understanding Your Baby’s Nap Schedule
Newborns sleep a lot! But newborns turn into babies they begin to expect more of a nap schedule. As a parent, their sleep needs and schedule can start to feel overwhelming, time consuming and a little confusing! There are three naps, then two naps, and when should they be sleeping? But you are not alone, through the baby nap schedule confusion, you have Joan Becker Friedman, certified pediatric sleep consultant. In this video, Joan gives a 3 minute overview of nap schedules, including when they should happen, how they should happen, and, most importantly, how to help your baby get his or her best possible sleep on their nap schedule! At the end of this three minutes, baby naps will feel a little less confusing.
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Read moreSleep Training Methods Decoded
It’s 3 a.m. You’re awake. Again. Googling “sleep training methods.” Google spits back thousands of pages with dozens of methods with all kinds of crazy names that really don’t seem to make much sense. Maybe because it’s 3 a.m. Or maybe it’s the crying-is-best, crying-is-awful, somewhere-in-the-middle conflict. Plus, your co-worker, friend from high school and cousin’s wife have probably also said, “We did this. It worked for us. Try it. We know it will work for you, too!” It’s easy to get overwhelmed with information. Most parents are! How can every online sleep expert claim to have the perfect solution? How do you know what will help and what won’t?
The Big Transition to a Big-Kid Bed
Everything You Need to Transition to a Big-Kid Bed
Read moreBedtime Fears Because of Coronavirus
This pandemic is a pretty scary thing. We don’t know how long we’ll be isolated. We don’t know if we or our loved ones will get sick and we have know idea when or if our lives will return to the normal that we once knew.
Everything You Need to Know About Teething
Everything Gets Blamed on Teething!
Teething gets a bad rap! Teething takes the blame for just about everything, including disrupted sleep. A lot of parents say their child has been teething FOREVER. And, many parents feel that teething is surely the reason their little one isn’t sleeping well. We’ve broken down just about everything you need to know about teething- including separating teething facts from teething fiction.
Read moreMaternity Leave is Ending & Baby Doesn’t Sleep Through the Night- HELP!
After ten beautiful weeks of snuggling your sweet baby, sometimes at all hours of the night, suddenly the countdown to going back to work begins! As maternity leave is ending, baby may not be sleeping. And you might be wondering how you’re going to function at work totally sleep deprived.
Read moreIt May Not be The Right Time to Sleep Train… Yet
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.
Read moreThe Best Time to Sleep Train
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.
Read moreHoliday Sleep: Tips to Keep Your Family Well-Rested
The holidays are a busy time of year! Family gatherings and festivities can be a lot of fun, but they can also mean packing more into hectic schedules. It’s easy to miss naps and bedtimes! We all know what happens when kids become overtired- it’s a little bug we can call “Holiday Sleep.” But, by setting up properly, you can lessen the chance of a dreaded holiday meltdown. Read more