When you’re planning a family holiday with a baby, an important thing to consider is how your travel plans are going to affect your child’s sleep routine. You’ll have a much more enjoyable vacation if you organize your trip in a way that allows for as little disruption as possible to your little one’s sleep schedule. This will help ensure … Read More
Baby Sick and Won’t Sleep? Here’s What to Do…
No matter how well your baby or toddler normally sleeps, a cold, flu, or earache is going to keep ANYONE up at night! However, there are some simple steps you can take that will minimize your child’s discomfort AND make sure that they start sleeping better once the illness has passed! Click the video below to watch a quick video … Read More
Melatonin for babies? No way!
For overtired parents who can’t seem to get their kids on a healthy sleep schedule, the promise of a magic pill can be pretty enticing. But it seems to me that more and more doctors and parents are turning to melatonin as a Band-Aid for sleep issues with their children. I get emails every day from people telling me they … Read More
How to Stop Toddlers from Biting
Being the parent of a biter can be downright embarrassing sometimes. If your toddler bites, you are probably familiar with the looks of apprehension from other parents when you walk into the daycare or the parent-tot programs with your little vampire in tow. They might guide their child away from the sand tray or the train table when you approach, … Read More
Travel Sleep Tips for Parents and Babies
Travelling with a baby or toddler presents a lot of potential problems, but perhaps the biggest challenge of all has to do with sleep. If your little one is used to sleeping soundly through the night in their own bed or crib, how are they going to react in a hotel room? Should you pack a crib with you, or … Read More
Starting Fresh – Get your kids excited about the new year!
I love New Years Day. It’s a time for us to leave behind the things of the past and look toward the future with a new set of goal and aspirations, whether they be financial (budgeting for a family vacation), physical (eating healthier food and using that treadmill three times a week) or emotional (taking time for personal reflection). Every … Read More
Should I Ever Dream Feed My Baby?
One of the many tricks that parents use to get their children sleeping through the night is a “dream feed.” This simply means that at sometime during the night — usually just before the parents go to bed themselves — they put a bottle into their sleeping baby’s mouth. The idea is that the baby instinctively starts eating, and will … Read More
Sweet Dreams, Mom and Dad – New Year’s Sleep Resolutions for Adults!
As parents, we’re responsible for work and household chores and raising children, so often sleep is the very last thing on our list of priorities. Many of us can become tired and overwhelmed with the marathon that life with young children can be, but what a lot of us don’t realize is that if we move sleep up on our … Read More
Weaning Your Child from Breast Feeding – Sleep Sense
If there’s one thing that can throw a baby or toddler off their sleep schedule, it’s weaning. In fact, one of the biggest causes of “sleep regression” (that is, a child who USED to sleep well suddenly waking up multiple times per night) is being weaned off breastfeeding. The good news is that there are simple steps you can follow … Read More
A Helping Hand Teaching Kids to Give Back for the Holidays – Sleep Sense
While some of us are blessed with a roof over our head and food to eat, there are far too many who aren’t so lucky. Never is this more evident than during the holidays, when some families are buying gifts and cooking extravagant meals for their loved ones while others are dealing with poverty and homelessness. While we want our … Read More