. Maybe your family is like ours. We require sleep to live a happy, relatively harmonious life. We don’t buy into this “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” mentality or accept that not sleeping is normal for children or adults. I need sleep to be the type of Mom I want to be and to be… [Read More]
Can Parent Coaching Improve My Child’s Behavior?
Parenting in our modern society has unique challenges. More than ever, we understand the importance of raising resilient, independent, and well-adjusted children, but many of us find ourselves wondering “how?” Without the right tools, we find ourselves defaulting to the way we were raised. For many, this doesn’t feel aligned to the way we want… [Read More]
Top Tips for Working Moms to Balance Healthy Sleep Habits
If you’ve been following us, you probably know that we are FANS of an early bedtime. We work with a lot of working Moms and Dads, so we hear a lot of feedback on this recommendation. The consensus is that working Moms find it difficult to balance healthy sleep habits for their children and their… [Read More]
Is Potty Training Going to Affect Sleep?
I’m just going to come right out and say it – potty training twin boys was my kryptonite. I would wake up every Saturday morning with gusto and by 10:30 am, I was wondering if it was too early for wine. Literally – ask my husband. Plus, as a child sleep consultant, you can imagine… [Read More]
Top Tips From a Sleep Consultant – Welcome Renee!
Hi! I’m Renee. I am so excited to join the Bella Luna Sleep Team as a certified child sleep consultant and to share my top tips with you! My sleep story My journey to becoming a sleep consultant began in late 2015. A year prior, my twin girls were born, 6 ½ weeks before… [Read More]
Top Tips to Help Your Children Share a Room
Many families come to me looking for tips on how to help their children share a room without bedtime, nights and naps turning into a three-ring circus! As a mother to twins and a certified child sleep consultant, I can 100% understand the fears and concerns that come with children sharing a room. In some… [Read More]
2 Year Sleep Regression Survival Tips
. Help! My daughter was a great sleeper and since she turned two, she just won’t sleep. She fights both naps and bedtime. What do I do? As a child sleep consultant, when I receive messages like this from parents, I instantly think “2 year sleep regression! Ugh!” Common sleep time behavior changes that point… [Read More]
Daylight Savings 2019 – Spring Forward
No one is more freaked out with time changes than Moms and Dads who are at the mercy of their child’s sleep! Second in line are child sleep consultants when we spring forward the clocks! Daylight Savings Time starts in the US and Canada on Sunday, March 10, 2019. What this means is when we… [Read More]
Preventing Scary Halloween Sleep!
The Halloween costumes are bought and your kids are SO excited for trick or treat, but in the back of your head you’re thinking “trick or treat is going to kill my kids’ sleep!” If you are anything like me, you don’t want to be a scrooge (wrong holiday!), but you really want your kids… [Read More]
Successfully Transitioning from a Crib to a Bed
As a child sleep consultant, I coach parents through successfully transitioning their children from a crib to a bed all the time. As I am in the process of transitioning my own twins, now seems like a perfect opportunity to share some… [Read More]
