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Bedsharing Guide: Benefits, Safety, and FAQs for Cosleeping and Bedsharing Families
Bedsharing Guide: Benefits, Safety, and FAQs for Cosleeping and Bedsharing Families

Bedsharing is a wonderful, biologically normal way to care for your baby at night. It’s also a big controversy in safe sleep. Since many pediatricians only focus on a “just don’t” attitude towards bedsharing, parents are stuck trying to navigate safe sleep messages and the reality of nighttime parenting. In this guide, I’ll answer some of the many questions I hear from parents about sleeping with their baby, cosleeping safety, bedsharing, and many questions that I also asked as a new parent.

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Baby Sleep Schedules: What you need to know about routines, schedules, and the difference
Baby Sleep Schedules: What you need to know about routines, schedules, and the difference

These questions come up over and over again from parents of newborns through older babies. It’s easy to understand the appeal of getting your baby on a schedule. Schedules promise predictability and control over something that feels very out of control, your babies feeding and sleeping. Strict schedules, however, are generally not the best approach for children of any age, but especially babies.

I often recommend routines rather than schedules. So, what’s the difference between a routine and a schedule?

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The Facts behind Babies and Self-Soothing
The Facts behind Babies and Self-Soothing

So many of my clients have heard comments like these on a regular basis. It makes them feel alone, isolated, and even doubt themselves.

So do I really need to teach my baby to self-soothe?

The good news is that you do not need to leave your baby to cry to teach them anything! And in fact, leaving a baby to cry is the exact opposite of how you help them calm down.

Though advice to leave a baby to cry to teach self-soothing is common, It’s incredibly outdated. So much sleep and parenting advice misses the very real neuroscience that disproves this concept as well as the important role of responsiveness in development.

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