There was a point in time when I would live and die on wake windows. Or, at least I tried to. You see, sleep trainers promote wake windows as an exact science. You can follow a perfectly curated, handy chart, and just like that, your baby’s sleep will miraculously improve. ✨ 𝐍𝐄𝗪𝐒𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐇 ✨ 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 […]
If you can believe it, these words actually came out of someone’s mouth 😱 It won’t surprise you that this golden tidbit 🙄came from the sleep trainer we used, during a takeover on an account I follow. Skipping your sunscreen once isn’t 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨, but it may have undesirable side effects. Drinking and cutting your own […]
If you’ve been here a while, you already know that when my oldest was a baby, we sleep trained her. We had no idea that we had any other option other than to be “good parents” and sleep train, or “bad parents” and let things go without “teaching” our daughter to sleep. As “good parents”, […]
Are you feeling confused about all the different options when it comes to sleep methods? If so, you’re not alone. The sleep training industry has seen a shift, where parents are expecting more responsive techniques. Clever marketing tactics are being used to position the same old sleep training as new and fresh, and one common […]
Being a parent is wonderful and rewarding and beautiful… but it can also sometimes be a downright sh!tshow. I had a conversation this morning with a client about the fact that all she hears about from her friends are the babies who sleep well. The parents who seemed like they had it all figured out […]
Did you know that wake window and nap charts are based on anecdotal reports from parents, averaged out to create “guidelines”? Routine and schedule charts are positioned as the gold standard, which leaves many parents (whose babies inevitably don’t fit the box) feeling like they are doing something wrong. 𝗜’𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 – […]
𝗜𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀? 𝗜’𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸! Causes of early rising in toddlers: 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀: Learning to walk/run/climb and new language acquisition are notorious interrupters of sleep 𝗡𝗮𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: If your toddler is ready for less daytime sleep, sometimes this will present with early risings. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: A child may be […]
Parents often feel confused by all of the information available on what they should – or shouldn’t – be doing to prepare their baby or toddler for sleep. My number one tip is that you should build a bedtime routine that feels good for you and for your child, and that you fits your family’s […]
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞: 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀No parent wants to miss out on the opportunity to teach their child a valuable skill. But you can’t teach a child something that doesn’t exist, and teaching them to link sleep cycles is one of those things. Every single person – baby, child or adult – wakes […]
This is such a common concern from new parents, especially if you’ve done any reading from sleep trainers who believe that pacifiers and nursing are “sleep crutches”. 📢NEWSFLASH 📢 They are 𝐧𝐨𝐭 crutches, and there is a reason that your baby feels comforted by that sucking. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Babies are born with 6 primitive reflexes that are […]
