Blog Category: baby

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 The sleep training world, including books you read, various sleep trainers you follow on social media, outdated research and sometimes even your pediatrician, claim that sleep training teaches the skill of self soothing to fall asleep independently, and that you must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.

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...

Your baby is not sleeping as well as you would like, but you so desperately want and need more sleep.  But, you don't love the idea of 'sleep training' and all that crying...  Mama, I hear you! I see you! I was you!!! I discuss my thoughts on sleep training here and bust some of the myths you may hear about sleep regularly.

You weren’t meant to travel the postpartum time alone....

We spend all this time preparing for birth. Once we give birth, we are handed our baby and sent on our merry way.  We are essentially left to figure everything out on our own! 

There is little wonder that new mothers, many of whom have little or no experience with babies or children, are often physically exhausted and emotionally depleted. They may find themselves easily anxious and confused about ‘doing what is right’.