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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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8 Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep While Traveling

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.
Dr. Sarah Mitchell
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Dream Feeds: When, Why and How?

What is Dream Feed?A dreamfeed is when you pick your sleeping baby up and offer a breastfeed or bottle feed.
Dr. Sarah Mitchell
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Pacifiers: When, Why and How to Wean

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?
Dr. Sarah Mitchell