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If you have a newborn or baby who cries a lot, you have probably heard the word colic. It may have come from a GP, a maternal health nurse, a family member, or something you read online. And it may have felt like, "Thank goodness! Now we know what it is!" Like finally someone had a name for what was happening. But here is what is important to understand: colic is not a diagnosis. It is not the name of an illness or a condition. It is a label that describes frequent, unexplain

Short naps are one of the most searched baby sleep topics online. They are also one of the most misrepresented. If you have gone looking for answers, you have probably found a lot of content that made you more worried, not less. Content that presents short naps as a serious baby sleep problem with a specific cause and a specific fix. This post is not that. It is a navigation guide. Here is what you will commonly hear about short naps, what the evidence actually says, and how

Let me be honest here. This is not a short read. It will take about 5 minutes to read this but I urge you to find a moment to either read this now or come back to it. This information has changed the whole experience for so many parents and I want that for you. It you're short on time and want the most important thing from this, jump to heading: The biggest problem of all If you have a baby or young child, you have almost certainly heard about sleep regressions. There are ap

A note before we start: this post discusses SIDS. I want to flag that before you read on. There is a piece of guidance that floats around, sometimes from sleep consultants, sometimes in parenting groups, sometimes on social media, that suggests 3 or 4 months is the right time to ditch the dummy or pacifier. The reasoning varies, but the goal is usually to remove what is framed as a sleep association before it becomes entrenched. I want to address this directly, because the ti

Swaddling is one of the oldest infant care practices in the world. Across cultures and centuries, parents have wrapped their newborns snugly, and for many newborn babies it genuinely helps. But like so much in the baby sleep space, the nuance tends to get lost. Swaddling gets handed out as blanket advice when the reality is more individual, and there are some things worth knowing that do not always come up in the standard guidance. Some babies love it. Some do not. Both are f

If you have spent any time in the baby sleep space, you have almost certainly been told that your baby needs to learn how to self-soothe. That it is your job to teach them. That if you do not, sleep will suffer. It is one of the most repeated pieces of advice in the newborn and infant sleep world. But here is something that does not get said nearly enough. The term self-soothing has been so widely misused that it now means something completely different to what it was ever in

This question comes up in so many discussions that I have with sleep. Sleep training is still considered the main approach to...

I used to be a supporter of sleep training and self-settling as the 'answer to sleep'. A gentle and responsive version but sleep training. Sleep training doesn't have an agreed on definition. Some people think of it as just Cry it Out. There are a few methods with lots of various names: Cry It Out, Controlled Crying, Spaced Soothing, Ferber, Leave and Check, Withdrawal, Disappearing Chair, Responsive, Gentle. All sleep training methods have a single common denominator . The

How to support your child's sleep through the spring forward daylight savings change in October.

It's no secret that as parents, getting your child to bed is not always an easy feat. Children often resist bedtime and want to stay up...

Often people describe resistance to naps this as their child ‘fighting naps’ but it can be more helpful to consider they just cannot...

There is so much misinformation when it comes to sleep at 4 months of age, often called the 4 month regression. Some of this information...

Your child is showing all the signs they are tired and you’re on path for bedtime but then things go haywire. Either your child starts...

Think of a time you’ve been so tired you could imagine yourself lying in a public space and falling sleep. When we get really tired, the...

How to support your child's sleep through the daylight savings change as we fall back 1 hour