Do you really need to teach your baby to self-soothe in order to get more sleep? Short answer is no! No you do not! The sleep training world, including books you read, various sleep trainers you follow on social media, outdated research and sometimes even your pediatrician, claim that sleep training teaches the skill of self soothing to fall asleep independently, and that you must teach your baby to self-soothe if you want them to fall asleep and stay asleep during the night. Learn why this is false inside the blog, and how to support your little one to self-settle and down-regulate.
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You may have read the title of this blog and thought, okay yes, that makes sense. Good for you if you did! But then why are you still focused (ahem... obsessed or perhaps you are confused - totally valid by the way) on teaching your baby to be independent or to self-soothe so that they can learn to sleep through the night independently. Why? Well that answer is easy! Read the blog to find out more...
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“Is there an app you’re using for baby’s milestones and daily development activities?”
The amount of times I hear mamas either asking each other, or even asking me for my recommendations in terms of which apps to use to track various things like sleep patterns, feeding schedules, amount of wet/dirty diapers and even developmental activities for their babies is getting to be more and more each week!
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We live in a sensory-rich world. Everything we learn and take in from our environment comes into our body (and brain) through our senses, and once the brain has integrated or processed this information, we act on it. Sensory processing is the ability of the nervous system to register input from our senses, interpret the information, and form a response (either a motor response, language, cognition, etc).
