Baby Sleep Tips

Baby and Toddler Sleep Tips | Sleep Without Sleep Training | Looking for baby sleep tips or how to's? This board will guide you through everything baby and toddler sleep to improve sleep in your home without sleep training, struggling with naps, sleep regressions, teething, early rising, night waking, bedtime battles and fighting sleep, this board will cover it all!
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The Top Ten Reasons Your Baby is Waking At Night - Isla-Grace
None of us, not even adults, actually sleep through the night. As we switch from one phase of sleep to the next, we rouse slightly and as long as we are not hungry, cold, or have to go to the bathroom, then we are able to go right back to sleep, likely without even noticing. If babies wake and have a need to be met, then their partial arousal may turn into full arousal. Read on to learn more.
Dance of the Dyad: Honoring Mother and Baby | Isla-Grace
We say – mom, you are exhausted. Your child needs to adapt. The problem then is that instead of addressing the root problem (lack of support for mom) we instead foster separation in the dyad, setting into motion a pattern that an exhausted mom can walk away from her dependent child in the height of his/her emotions instead validating the emotions that flow. Read on to learn more.
Dance of the Dyad: Honoring Mother and Baby | Isla-Grace
The problem so often with infant sleep is that parent’s unrealistic expectations are really the biggest sleep challenge. In a report from 50,000 infants aged 6-18 months, only 10% of them are sleeping through the night. Read on to learn more about how to help your baby sleep from a sleep coach.
Dance of the Dyad: Honoring Mother and Baby | Isla-Grace
Sleep is a biological function that cannot be taught, similar to eating or eliminating. If I told you to fall asleep right now, could you do it? Read on to learn more tips from a pro baby sleep coach.
Dance of the Dyad: Honoring Mother and Baby | Isla-Grace
We can monitor stimulation, understanding that too much will cause our children to become hyper-aroused, or too little will cause our children to become hypo-aroused. We can offer parent-led pattern changes and extend our loving support as our child adapts to the new expectations. Can we put our children in the crib and make them sleep?! Read on to find out!
Dance of the Dyad: Honoring Mother and Baby | Isla-Grace
I hear everywhere that it is important to teach our children to sleep, and this comment is misleading. We cannot teach sleep. That does not mean that we are left helpless with an exhausted child either. So what CAN we do for our children? Read on to find out!
Dance of the Dyad: Honoring Mother and Baby | Isla-Grace
Why can’t you fall asleep on command? Because sleep is not within our conscious control. Once the “puzzle pieces” are in place (to-do list complete, body tired, environment comfortable), then your body is ready. Read on to learn more about how to help your baby sleep.
Dance of the Dyad: Honoring Mother and Baby | Isla-Grace
Sleep is a biological function that cannot be taught, similar to eating or eliminating. If I told you to fall asleep right now, could you do it? Maybe, if you were really exhausted. But you’d make sure you were comfortable with no significant things on your to-do list and no caffeine consumed. Read on to learn why you can't train your baby to sleep according to a baby sleep coach.
Advice to a New Mama... - Isla-Grace
New moms tend to not want to, but it’s OK to ask for help. Seeking support is a sign of strength, not weakness. There is NO shame in leaning on others; you do not need to do everything on your own. If you are looking to start getting your partner involved, I include a great resource for you to use in this blog post.
Advice to a New Mama... - Isla-Grace
Follow your instincts and listen to your heart. A mother’s intuition is incredible. Always, always trust yourself. You are the best possible mother in the entire world for your baby. Read on to learn more tips for new moms with newborn babies.
The Truth Behind the "Skill" of Self-Soothing - Isla-Grace
The only way to help them out of this state is to help them down-regulate, and this involves PARENTAL CONTACT/SUPPORT. It is not something that can be done by leaving a baby/child alone. Read on to learn more about when babies are able to self-soothe.
My Top 10 Tips for Moms with New Babies - Isla-Grace
This blog is for all of the incredible women I have talked to who are doing the best job tending to their baby’s needs, and for some – surviving hours and hours of crying and are too worried to give a soother because someone told them that it was a “negative sleep association” to go to sleep while sucking. For all of those amazing women out there who are somewhere within these first crazy six months, this post is for you. Here are my top ten tips for the first 6 months.
Wake Windows and Sleep Schedules | Isla-Grace
But the idea that every single child at a certain age has the same wake windows is crazy. You and I don’t get the same amount of sleep, or go to bed at the same time, or (if we could nap) nap for the same length of time even if we’re the same age. Get my FREE handout that lists the wake windows and schedules promoted by many sleep consultants who use sleep training.
My Baby Won't Nap! - Isla-Grace
So how do you remove this stress around naps? First of all, let it go! Your baby is going to be fine. Your number one job as a parent when it comes time to sleep is to teach your baby that sleep is a pleasant place to go and a safe place to remain (not that it is frustrating and stressful). Read on to learn more tips on how to help baby nap.
Top Ten Lullabies Decided By You... - Isla-Grace
The more sleep associations your child has, the easier it is for them to know that bedtime is coming. If you stop to think about it, you probably have many sleep associations of your own that you use to unwind at the end of the day. Read on to learn 10 lullabies perfect for soothing baby to sleep.