Today I tell the story of a baby who could only sleep for 8 minutes at a time — and of the rare condition behind it.
Short answer: when is night waking not a sleep problem?
- Almost all night waking...
Two children, two different bedtimes, and one parent doing bedtime alone. The order in which to fix it: schedule first, then the routine, then the room, and sleep training only at the end.
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A newborn who only sleeps in your arms and wakes the moment you put him down is doing exactly what newborns do. Here is what actually helps — and how to make the transfer work.
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A mother of a one-year-old who breastfed to sleep, co-slept part of the night and never got round to sleep training asks whether she has ruined it. She has not.
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In this episode I explain why a toddler might seem to throw a tantrum in the middle of the night — and why it is very probably not a tantrum at all.
Short answer: is this a night terror?
- A night t...
Your baby slept well for months, and now she suddenly needs nursing to fall asleep again. Is that a sleep regression, and do you have to sleep train all over again?
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A single mother of a nearly four-year-old has been lying next to her every night for three years. She wants her evenings back without making sleep frightening. Here is the order to do it in.
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Three scheduling problems that have no perfect answer: a baby who needs two naps at a nursery that does one, two children on different nap schedules, and three children sharing one room.
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Three of the most common bedtime routine questions: screens before bed, whether a bath belongs in the routine at all, and what to sing when you cannot sing.
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Your baby falls asleep on her own at bedtime and still wakes twice a night. Does that mean the sleep training failed? No — and here is what to do about the nights and the naps.
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How a 9-month sleep regression turned a theoretical biologist into a sleep coach — and what I learned about why sleep advice contradicts itself.
Short answer: which sleep training method is the bes...