Blog: Articles for Better Sleep

One of the biggest mistakes parents can make is having an arbitrary bedtime that’s too late for their baby. They think that if the keep the child up later, they will sleep in later. This is a fallacy.

4 month old sleep regression – urban legend or developmental change or something else?

Have you ever wondered if there is a best time to sleep train? I see many posts on chat boards about continuing to wait out bad sleep habits until this “sleep regression passes.” “Bring your baby into bed with you,” they say, “you’ll both get more sleep!”

Traveling over the holidays can be stressful enough but add a baby or toddler into the mix and one might have the fleeting thought of staying home where your baby can continue to sleep well.

What is Dream Feed?A dreamfeed is when you pick your sleeping baby up and offer a breastfeed or bottle feed.

Pacifiers, also known as soothers, binkies, dummy, button, and my personal favourite the fussbug, can be a contentious topic in parenting. Do they cause nipple confusion? Deform your teeth? Spread germs? Or perpetuate sleep challenges? How to wean pacifiers when the time comes?

Is your baby waking up too early for you? Other wise known as the “early wake up” or EWU. Its important to realize that most babies tend to wake up somewhere between 6:00 and 7:00 am due to their circadian rhythm and the sun. EWU really count as anything before 6 am.

Keeping him with us was the way to go.…until….I couldn’t sleep a wink.