Help Your Baby “Sleep Through The Night”

During the REM state, a baby may be moving simply due to the activity happening in their brain. All this movement can be noisy. Also, your baby may make sounds, from a gurgle to a whimper or even a cry.

There are some things that stand out to me as a sleep specialist which I call “red flags.” These red flags might be signs that there is something underlying (often medical but not always serious!) that is causing your little one to wake more than what I would consider to be “normal” for their age. I encourage parents to look into these red flags, to trust their gut, and to get second opinions when needed.

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 […]

A split night is when your baby is up for a long time in the middle of the night and has a hard time falling back asleep. It usually has to do with a sleep imbalance during the day and can usually be easily fixed.

If sleeping next to our babies was inherently dangerous, many species, including humans, would have gone extinct long ago. Parents and babies have slept in close proximity since the beginning of time; only in fairly recent years have parents been encouraged to distance themselves from their babies during the night.

Read about this common misconception about long stretches of sleep for infants, and why it’s so controversial.

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!