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Why Bedtime Routines Matter
"Just keep the bedtime routine consistent" is one of those pieces of advice that gets repeated so often it stops sounding like real advice. But the ro...
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When White Noise Can Interfere with Sleep
White noise is one of the most reliable sleep tools in the early months, but it has two specific failure modes worth knowing about — both of which tur...
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What Self-Soothing Skills Are
"Self-soothing" is one of the most overloaded phrases in baby sleep — used to mean everything from "fall asleep without being held" to "stop crying al...
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The Role of Parents in Shaping Healthy Sleep
"Good sleeper" and "bad sleeper" are mostly the wrong frame. Children come with their own sleep need and their own temperament; what parents do is set...
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Exercise Ball Soothing, Rocking, and Other Sleep Rituals: Why Moderation Matters
At 11 pm, in the third week of newborn life, a fitness ball can feel less like a piece of fitness equipment and more like a medical device. Bouncing r...
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How to Get Through Sleep Regression Without Drastic Measures
By the third night of broken sleep, almost everything starts to look reasonable. Bringing the baby into bed. Feeding to sleep again. Sitting in the ro...
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The Role of Physical Contact in Falling Asleep
Physical contact in the settling process is the subject of much parenting advice, most of it focused on whether it will create a "problem." This frami...
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Night Wakings in Infants: Common Causes
Night wakings in infants are not a failure of sleep — they are a feature of infant sleep biology. Every human being wakes briefly between sleep cycles...
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Night Wakings After Six Months
Night wakings at six months look different from night wakings at two months. The feeding imperative has reduced; the developmental picture has changed...
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Pros and Cons of Co-Sleeping
Co-sleeping is one of the most polarised topics in parenting. One camp will tell you it's the only "natural" way to raise a baby; another will tell yo...
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Co-Sleeping After Six Months
The bed-sharing conversation looks very different at 8 months than at 8 weeks. Most of the acute SIDS risk associated with bed-sharing concentrates in...
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How Sleeping in a Baby Carrier Affects a Child's Schedule
"Does the carrier nap count?" is one of the most-asked questions in postnatal groups. The answer is yes, with caveats. Sleep is sleep — a 45-minute ca...
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Sleep Associations in Infants: What They Are and Why They Matter
You know the pattern. Your baby drops off easily — at the breast, in your arms, on the rocking chair — but then surfaces every 90 minutes through the...
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