All parents are capable of nurturing babies and toddlers at bedtime! However, many families find themselves in a place where only one parent is doing bedtime. Whether this is a pattern formed from habit or your baby has strong preferences, you can gently shift the pattern so that both parents are involved in bedtime.
Read MoreStress, worry, and anxiety have a negative impact on our sleep, regardless of how often our child wakes in the night. From everyday concerns to more intense clinical depression and anxiety, mental health and sleep are connected. And once you have trouble sleeping, you often add worry about your own sleep to the mix! There are things you can do to help when anxiety keeps you from sleeping.
Read MoreI get a lot of questions about bedtime routines. They are a popular and important part of supporting sleep, but there’s a lot of confusion around what’s helpful when it comes to a good bedtime routine.
Simply saying start a bedtime routine and do x, y, and z every night isn’t helpful. Children are unique and they don’t all respond to the same routine in the same way. I think it’s more helpful to understand the ideas behind a bedtime routine then to tell you a formula for one.
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