The Truth About Teething and Sleep: What You Need to Know As a Sleep Consultant, I often hear it: “My baby is teething, and that’s why they’re not sleeping.” It’s easy to see why teething gets blamed for many sleepless nights. After all, the sight of swollen gums and the sound of a fussy baby…
When your baby is sick, nights can be interrupted. If you have worked hard to allow your child the ability to fall asleep independently to ensure they are a good sleeper through the night, and for day naps, the last thing you want to do is derail these skills over the period they get sick.…
Have you ever woken up to the sound of a crying baby and thought to yourself, “That’s it. This week, I’m taking action. This week we’re going to start teaching out little one some sleep skills.” I wonder how we should start. Then, sometime in the early morning when your third cup of coffee starts…
Melatonin supplements have been touted by a lot of homeopathic experts as a safe, natural way of helping people get to sleep, and in a lot of ways, that is actually very true, but there’s a whole lot more to understand about it before you take it yourself or give it to your child.…
The summer holidays are here, and I don’t know about you, but I have a feeling this is going to be a pretty amazing summer. Now that we’re getting back to a place where kids will be able to get outdoors and do all of those fabulous summer things, I feel like we’re all going…
Raising a child can be seriously hard work. However this can be even more so if your child has special needs. Think of the hours, the commitment needed, the ambiguity of information, the stakes involved, and the endless, ever-evolving challenges that kids throw at us. All those regular parenting challenges are present when you have…
When it comes to moving from cot to bed, there are two questions that need to be answered. The first is when? and the second is how? If you have stumbled on this blog because you are visiting my site or Facebook page to get help with teaching your little one the skills they need…
Why Your Child Might Struggle to Wind Down (And What You Can Do About It) You’ve dimmed the lights, tucked your little one into bed, and started their usual bedtime routine only to find they’re still bouncing off the walls, begging for “just one more show” or chasing invisible ninjas across the lounge room. Sound…
