Free Tip Tuesday- How sleep training can preserve the intimacy in your relationship. Historically, bed times and age appropriate schedules not only provided parents with much needed sleep, they also served to preserve that sacred “adult” time. It is not uncommon in recent times to see parents doing the opposite, using their children as a way
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The Truth Behind Sleep Training
Today’s Sleep Myth: True or False? Sleep training is just leaving your child to cry by itself. The answer to that myth is in fact FALSE. Sleep Training is a multi-layered process of helping to teach your child how to sleep uninterrupted all night long as well as take consistently long daily naps. This
Earthing & Grounding
60-Second Monday Mood Booster Getting your bare feet onto the earth provides a plethora of amazing health and wellness benefits and is a great, quick way to boost your mood. “Basically, the theory is that our bodies are meant to come into contact with the Earth (a “grounding” force) on a regular basis. Positive electrons
How to Reduce SIDS Rates
This is one of my favorite times of year! Late winter and early spring are the months in which the Family Sleep Institute allows me to educate their sleep consultants on safe sleep and how to reduce the risk and incidence of SIDS. Educating families on safe sleep became a passion of mine a few
Top 5 Infant Sleep Tips
How to lay a solid sleep foundation from birth Here are Our Top 5 Tips: Practice putting your baby down drowsy but awake as frequently as possible. Set the sleep scene; keep the sleep environment cool, dark and use white noise. Use a separate sleep space – while letting your baby sleep on you won’t
Why Quick Sleep Fixes WON’T Work, It’s Free Tip Tuesday!
The Huffington Post published an article a few years back reviewing a sleep product, a book that “promises to make anyone fall asleep” (Huffington Post , 2015) and it’s called ” The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep: A New Way Of Getting Children To Sleep.” The book is a verbal mediation of sorts, using slower and more
Quick Facts- Can Proper Sleep Make Your Child Smarter?
The Quick Fact answer to whether or not sleep can make your child smarter is in fact, YES. Sleep is food for your child’s brain. (Weissbluth, 2003) Especially for young children- Sleep is to their brains what food is to their bodies. You would never deprive your child of food or postpone their meals
Strong Willed or Sleep Deprived? You Decide. It’s Free Tip Tuesday!
About 90% of my clients describe their children and babies as being “strong-willed” or “stubborn.” These traits typically give them pause about sleep training and whether or not it will work with their child. Fortunately, every single one of them has discovered throughout the process that their children aren’t unruly, stubborn or particularly strong willed;
To swaddle or not to swaddle?
The swaddle debate has become akin to the tummy sleeping debate over the last decade, with research constantly changing and opinions on both sides of the fence divided and flip-flopping frequently. While the most recent research on tummy sleeping has most experts in agreement that infants need to be placed only on their stomachs for
“He Was An Amazing Sleeper Until The Pediatrician Told Us To Get Rid Of The Pacifier”
I have heard countless stories similar to the above statement from families in need of sleep help. The question of whether or not to use a pacifier continues to be a hot parenting topic. Instead of talking about whether or not to use a pacifier, today we are focusing on when and how to stop using one. Throughout