7 Tips for Better Sleep Habits What are some things you can start right away with a newborn to establish healthy sleep habits? Remember, sleep is a skill your baby isn’t born with. You need to teach it! But even if you didn’t start as a newborn, you can implement these tips with babies…
Getting Through the Daylight Savings Time Change You’ve worked so hard to get your child on schedule and now the Daylight Savings Time change is coming up. This is a day hated in the sleep consultant world- getting our children to sleep through the night and into a routine is hard enough, we don’t need…
What if My Kids Share a Room? This is a tricky scenario that I see a lot of parents dealing with. They want to move their youngest into a room with their toddler but are unsure how to sleep train without waking up the older child. That is a valid concern, and I wish I…
The Four Month Sleep Regression As a professional sleep consultant, I hear the term “regression” used in regards to just about every imaginable circumstance. Essentially, if baby doesn’t sleep well for a couple of nights, parents start dropping the ‘R’ word. Some people subscribe to the idea that there’s an eight month regression, a 9…
Why Does Baby Wake? 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 are just hungry. Maybe they are too hot, or too cold. Well, the truth is, it could…
Switching to a Big Kid Bed One of the most common questions I get asked as a child sleep consultant is, “When should we move him into a big kid bed?” My favorite answer to this is, “Later,” and there are a couple of reasons why I say that. Number one is because there are…