“What are you looking forward to?” This is usually one of the first questions I ask parents when I start working with them. It helps them to visualize what life will be like in just a couple of weeks when their baby is sleeping soundly through the night and taking …
Bringing a new baby into the house is a glorious, exciting, terrifying occasion, especially when you have one or two already, and it can bring up a whole lot of questions. How are the older children going to react to their new sibling? Are they going to embrace the role …
Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar to you. Your baby wakes up in the morning. You feed her, change her, play with her for a little bit, take her for a little walk outside, then rock her to sleep and put her gently into her crib for her morning …
There are two things I can pretty much guarantee you when it comes to teaching your baby to sleep independently. It’s going to be challenging. BUT, it’s going to be eminently worth it. I’ve never worked with a family whose baby went right down on the first night and just …
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A lot of time, parents ask me this question, when we are implementing the sleep plan: “If my baby wakes up in the middle of the night, crying; how would I know if she is hungry?” Well… We’re all willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that our babies …
Yes. You heard it right. Your baby will never sleep straight through the night. And neither will you, for that matter. In fact, if you aren’t heavily sedated before going to bed, you are going to wake up multiple times in the night. This is not due to stress, caffeine, …
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 nine …
This 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’re too hot, or too cold… Well, the truth is that it could be …
I can clearly remember, like most mothers I’m sure, the very moment I gave birth to my child. I was absolutely buried in feelings of love and gratitude. And then, about ten to fifteen seconds later, I was equally buried in advice, suggestions, and information. This was all thrown at …