The safe and appropriate time to to start sleep training, at the earliest, is quite a controversial question. There are so many different ideas and opinions on this. A popular New York pediatrics office suggests you can start sleep training as early as 8 weeks. But then you can also Read more…
Sleep is such a huge part of children’s success at school. Healthy sleep enhances student’s cognitive development because sleep helps to incorporate learning into permanent memory (also called memory consolidation). Sleep also aids in organizational skills, multi-tasking, planning, and executive function. If students aren’t getting enough sleep they will struggle Read more…
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It can be hard enough to go back to work and leave your baby in the care of someone else, but finding the right daycare can be even more difficult. Not only do you want a daycare with experienced staff members that will take joy in your baby, but you want Read more…
Our babies change so much in their first months of life – they go from sleepy babies that mainly eat, sleep and poop to happy, alert babies who love to spend time playing and engaging with their parents and can fight sleep just for more snuggles or struggle get to Read more…
The 4 month sleep regression is one of those hot topics for moms of young babies. You’ve either experienced the tiring, sleepless time that it creates or you’ve heard about it and dreading the fact that you’ll be there in the not so distant future. All this leads to endless Read more…
Today let’s talk the 3 to 2 nap transition. The third nap is a nap that actually has no biological rhythm for it and its main purpose is to bridge the gap between the midday nap and bedtime. The morning and midday nap, on the other hand, both serve very Read more…
Self-soothing skills is one of the key components of healthy sleep. Newborn babies make it look like falling asleep is innate, but in actual fact, as babies get older, they actually find it harder to just fall asleep. This is because learning to sleep and self-soothe, are actually learnt skills. What Read more…
Sleep can be so challenging. As new moms or even second or third time moms we can struggle with our little one’s sleep. Sometimes we feel like we are alone in our sleep struggles, especially if all our friends tell us what dream sleepers their child is. If we are Read more…
On Sunday, March 10th it is time to Spring Forward and when we move our clocks forward one hour. Let’s quickly learn about the different options we have for preparing our babies and children for the time change so that we can start getting ourselves mentally and physically prepared. Read more…