Holidays in general can affect our children’s sleep, but the Fourth of July and the fireworks throw in extra challenges to maintaining healthy sleep habits! Summer and holidays are meant to be carefree, right? As a parent, all that goes out the window! You are still trying to preserve your child’s sleep during the fireworks and… [Read More]
5 Must Have Sleep Gifts for Your Baby Registry
True or False…5 months pregnant with twins, walking into Buy Buy Baby with my handsome husband, going through the process to start our baby registry and getting so overwhelmed in the first aisle that I started crying so we had to leave?! TRUE! Many parents are in similar situations and now that I’m an experienced… [Read More]
Surviving the 8-10 Month Sleep Regression
As a certified child sleep coach, I spend a lot of time talking about the 8-10 month sleep regression and helping parents through it. I hear this a lot from parents, “my child has never a been a good sleeper and I didn’t think sleep could get much worse, but when the 8 month sleep… [Read More]
Determining the Best Bedtime and How Much Sleep Your Child Needs
As a certified child sleep consultant, I am asked a lot about the best bedtime for babies and children; as well as how much sleep children need each day to meet their sleep needs. It makes sense that parents want to make sure that they are providing their children with adequate rest – SLEEP IS… [Read More]
4 Month Sleep Regression Demystified!
As a child sleep coach, every day I talk about sleep regressions – the 4 month sleep regression in particular is a pretty popular topic! I have countless Moms say “my son was sleeping 6 hours at nights at 3 months and then all of a sudden at 4 months, he began waking again… [Read More]
SPRING FORWARD! Daylight Savings Tips for Parents *2018 Update*
No one is more freaked out with time changes than Moms and Dads who are at the mercy of their child’s sleep! Daylight Savings Time starts in the US and Canada on Sunday, March 11, 2018. When we set the clocks forward 1 hour, we’ll be putting our children to bed 1 hour earlier than… [Read More]
Daylight Savings Fall Back Sleep Tips for Your Child
Parents everywhere are starting to think “how the heck am I going to navigate daylight savings fall back with my kiddos?” Maybe you are also reminiscing about when the time change meant you got an extra hour of sleep – HA! Before I was a sleep coach, I MAJORLY bumbled this with my boys!… [Read More]
Optimizing Your Child’s Sleep Environment – Lights Out
In this three part series about optimizing your child’s sleep environment, we are going to explore the top 3 tweaks that you can make to promote snoozing. “My first child can sleep anytime, anywhere so I have no idea what to do to help her little brother.” As a child sleep consultant, I hear this… [Read More]
Meeting back to school sleep needs
The back to school TV commercials are in full swing and you are likely spending a small fortune on back to school clothes and supplies, but have you thought about back to school sleep needs?? Sleep is important year round, but during school times, when learning is so intensive, it becomes even more important to… [Read More]
Preserving Healthy Sleep Habits in the Summer
Summer is a fun time for children and adults alike, but all this fun can wreak havoc on healthy sleep habits! Your children will enjoy the sunny, warm weather and all of the fun summertime activities like the beach, the park, the zoo, the aquarium, the farm, the fireworks…maybe so much so that snoozing… [Read More]
