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I was hesitant to write this post. Depending on the company you keep you can be faced with lots of judgment when it comes to baby sleep and weaning. Everyone has a different comfort level, parenting style and, well, child. So you do you. I’m writing about this topic today just in case someone else […]

…has been sleep. My kids are 6 and 8 and we still have nightly bedtime battles. Figuring out sleep was the hardest part of being a new parent. I had absolutely no prior experience with babies, and putting them down for so many naps a day was not easy! Then we went through sleep regressions, […]

Our oldest has never been a particularly good sleeper. Ever. When he was a newborn, he lost a lot of weight very quickly and we were advised to wake him every two hours for the first several weeks to make sure he was fed. From our perspective, it messed with his sleep big time and […]

Within the last month A, 10 months old, has grown two new teeth, battled a three-day fever that an emergency room visit revealed to be strep throat and an ear infection, and started cruising around furniture — along with the other usual sleepless baby sorcery. In truth, he stopped being a ‘good’ sleeper about six […]

W was one of those newborns that slept like a dream. I had that baby thing down. I wasn’t sleep deprived! Up once a night? No problem. He went to bed late, but when he was down, he gave us a great stretch. I was functioning in the day like it was no problem. I […]

Seriously. This wasn’t in any of the parenting handbooks I read. I mean, I get why my baby books wouldn’t tell me. But, hey, Janet Lansbury, you could at least MENTION that one of those behaviors that you’d really like to ‘not let your three-year-old do’ is MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WAKINGS. I thought the […]

One thing I really wish I had read about before the baby was a book on baby sleep. Not that I believe it would have made things any better really, or changed my obsessive Googling habit of “insert age nap schedule,” but maybe just prepared me for the amount of time I would spend thinking […]