Help Your Baby “Sleep Through The Night”

Temperament is a huge piece of the baby sleep puzzle (and feeding and play and everything else!) and it blows my mind that NO ONE talks about it! In this post I’ll discuss: What is My Baby’s “Temperament?” Temperament is a child’s emotional and behavioral style of responding to the world. The study of temperament […]

8 interventions and strategies to improve baby and child sleep that are evidence-based.

Episode 48: Sleep Training: What we Know (and what we DON’T KNOW) from the Research with Amanda Ruggeri This week Rachael and Amanda Ruggeri, a journalist specializing in psychology, parenting, and child development, discuss the ever controversial topic: sleep training. Amanda speaks about her articles on baby sleep and sleep training and the research behind […]

Sleep training as a concept is rife within the parenting world. It’s divisive, controversial, hugely popular, and ingrained within Western society. This blog is a one-stop shop for the @heysleepbaby approach and view of the complex world of sleep training!

Overtiredness has become a scapegoat for lots of baby sleep issues (many of which are simply normal behavior) but is it really such a big deal? What makes a baby overtired? How do you recover from overtiredness? Read to learn more.

Drowsy but awake is popular advice- but is it actually based in evidence and does it actually work?

Sleep itself is a feminist issue. A 2006 meta-analysis found women are 40% more likely to develop insomnia than men. In families with children in which there are two parents of opposite genders, mothers were doing two hours a day more childcare and housework than men. It’s no wonder we’re exhausted. But is sleep training the answer we need? Is sleep training the “feminist” approach?

Bedtime fading is a gentle strategy that works by helping your little one’s body clock re-align to a bedtime that works better for your family.

This is such a common worry for parents who aren’t interested in CIO (cry it out) or controlled crying methods for sleep training. They so badly want to be responsive to their babies and worry that if their baby cries in the car it must mean they are letting them CIO.

Given all of the persistent medical advice that was emerging in the mid 1900’s, parents came to see feeding as the enemy of sleep and were encouraged not to respond to any hunger cues given by their baby at any time the parent defined as nighttime. This ultimately led to a decline in a breastfeeding mothers’ milk supply, thus prompting the need for formula supplementation, and eventually exclusive formula use.