Sleep Training Advice
“Sleep training” just means using behavioral techniques to help your child sleep better. If you want your child to sleep better, here are my top posts to help you on your sleep training journey.
The Top Ten Sleep Training Mistakes You Need to Avoid for Better Sleep
What do the families who come into Sleep Clinic have in common? Almost all of them have tried sleep training and failed. There are some common sleep training mistakes that parents make. Knowing about them may make the difference between success and failure. Parents often feel guilty about sleep training. One of the reasons is…
At Long Last: Sleep Training Tools For the Exhausted Parent
Are you tired? Not sure how to help your kid sleep through the night? Here is my comprehensive guide to sleep training tools and methods to help tired parents and kids sleep better. These sleep training methods will work for infants, toddlers, and through school age. Free Bonus: I created a guide comparing my favorite sleep…
Successful Sleep in Infancy: Flipping The Switch
Recently, a friend contacted me about some sleep difficulties she was having with her baby: My 7 month old has started waking up more frequently in the last several weeks after a cold. For the last several months, she has slept through the night with only a single awakening at night. However, she recently had…
Melatonin For Children? A Guide for Parents
Pediatricians frequently recommend melatonin for children with sleep problems, or parents might try it themselves. However, the proper use of melatonin is frequently misunderstood. Here is a guide for parents and pediatricians to decide if a child should try it, and to understand how it should be used. Note: this is a long post so…
How to Stop Night Feeds in Your Child and Sleep Better
Before you starting thinking about sleep training, you need to look at your child’s eating habits at night. I would strongly recommend that you stop any caloric intake as one of your first steps in getting your child to sleep through the night. Sometimes, stopping nocturnal feeds is all you need to do to get…
Eight Steps to Make Your Baby Sleep Better and Avoid Sleep Training
Let me be real for a moment— nobody WANTS to sleep train their child. Although it is both safe and effective, many parents are afraid of doing anything that involves crying. I want to show you the steps I think are key to help make your baby sleep better, minimize sleep problems, and may help…
Adventures in the No-Fly Zone: Toddler Sleep Problems
Does your child struggle with falling asleep? Sometimes, changing the time you put her to bed can make it much easier. But you may need to go later or earlier to get the full benefit. Even though it sounds complicated, it doesn’t need to be. Fixing bedtime is one of the best ways to fix…
How To Deal With A Sleep Regression
“Help! Is my child having a sleep regression? She was sleeping great and now she’s waking up at night. WHAT DO I DO?” One question I get asked all the time is what to do with a sleep regression. If you are not in the know, a sleep regression is when a child who was…
Is Your Child Struggling with Napping? Here’s Help
If your child is struggling with napping, I recently wrote an article for the New York Times called, Your Kids Refuse to Nap? There’s Hope. In it, I cover what to expect from your child at different ages, how to deal with nap strikes, and what it looks like when your child (gulp) drops a…
Do Wake Windows Help Babies and Kids Nap Better?
“Wake windows” are a newly popular concept in infant and toddler sleep. In a nutshell, “wake windows” are intervals between naps. They are also known as “awake windows” or “baby wake windows”. Although they have some basis in sleep science, there is little evidence that systems based around wake windows improve baby and toddler naps….
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