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Help Your Baby “Sleep Through The Night”

…orrrrr the closest we can get, because let’s be real:
 none of us actually sleep through the night.

What is sleep latency and why is it an important marker of baby sleep? Sleep latency refers to the amount of time it takes in order for us to fall asleep. For adults (and some kids!) we would start timing our sleep latency beginning when we get into bed. For babies, we might start tracking […]

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What are sleepy cues and how can we use them to help get our baby to sleep easier? Do you know your baby’s sleepy cues? When babies are tired, they do some pretty distinct things to let us know! Every child’s cues will be a little bit different, but in general there are some cues […]

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If you’ve tried to get insight into your baby’s sleep, you’ve likely come across the phrase “sleep associations.” But what are sleep associations, really? And why are they so important? Sleep associations are basically anything we associate with sleep! For us adults, a sleep association might be an eye mask, a special pillow, a meditation app, white noise or a fan, silk PJ’s, etc. Babies need sleep associations, too!

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You’re wayyy too busy to spend hours researching biologically normal infant sleep, and circadian rhythms of babies, and the best wake windows. So, I’ve done it for you. 

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