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Routine provides children with predictability and security – essential to their ability to self-settle, fall asleep with limited resistance, and sleep for longer. Children feel more confident and secure when they know what they can expect – from having structure in their day i.e. meal times, nap times, bed times and play times; to our…
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Finding the optimal awake window for each individual child can be nothing short of a science. As we all know, put them to bed before they’re tired enough, and they don’t sleep. Put them to bed when they are overtired, and they don’t sleep either. Being overtired is one of the biggest contributors to frequent night wakings, short…
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Is there such thing as sleeping through the night once you become a parent? I mean… really? In my experience, the nights where my children sleep from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am without wetting the bed, waking due to illness or teething, crying out in their sleep, having nightmares… (list goes on) are the nights…
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Many people ask me: “when is it appropriate to start sleep training”? Although I no longer do any “sleep training”, I felt it was still fair to offer my take on the popular methods; what, why, and when. If you have decided that sleep training is for you and your family, my rule of thumb…
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I get many parents asking me the what, why, how, and when of the dream feed. So let me share with you my response: WHAT? Put simply, a dream feed is commonly done between the hours of 10pm – 11pm (or before mum and dad’s bed time). It is a method used to fill the baby up with milk…
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