Featured Blog Author: Dr. Sarah Mitchell

When Is the Best Time to Sleep Train My Baby?

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!”

Dr. Sarah Mitchell

Daylights Savings Time and the Dreaded Fall Back: Where Most People Gain an Hour of Sleep….. But Not Parents!

Added to your early morning suffering… daylights savings time and fall back.

Dr. Sarah Mitchell

The 4 Month Old Sleep Regression: A Case Study

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

Dr. Sarah Mitchell

The Most Common Parenting Sleep Error…

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.

Dr. Sarah Mitchell

How to Dress Your Baby for Winter Sleep

As a parent, we are concerned about our child during the night, worried that our child is too hot or too cold. In this post, Dr. Sarah Mitchell explains how you can dress your baby for peaceful winter sleep.

Dr. Sarah Mitchell

Should Your Bedtime Routine Include a Bath?

I remember being in the hospital, hours after my baby’s birth, giving him a bath and then trying to breastfeed. It didn’t go well since he was so sleepy from the bath! It is true that a bath will make a newborn sleepy. The bath is similar to the soothing conditions the baby experienced in the womb.

Dr. Sarah Mitchell

5 Things You Need to Know About Your 6 Month Old’s Sleep

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the 6 month mark where things generally get a little easier. A this age babies can stay awake a little longer and you have bigger windows to get out of the house and do more things for yourself without compromising your baby’s sleep.

Dr. Sarah Mitchell