Is your baby between 13-22 weeks and still not sleeping longer than 2-3 hours at night? Does your baby seem to be regressing with sleep overall? Or just getting worse?
The 4-month sleep regression, the first of many sleep regressions, is totally normal because during this time, because baby is going through tons of neurological and biological advancements. Affecting children in a certain age range, this sleep regression can reek havic on a perfect sleeper, or cause a baby’s sleep to get worse by the day.
Here are a couple of signs of the 4 month sleep regression and how to fix it!
Cluster feeding typically occurs in the early evening, which can be confusing for parents that are thinking to themselves, “What’s going on?” Cluster feeding may even get you a few extra hours of sleep at night! However, cluster feeding can sometimes lead to an INCREASE in night wakings, but WHY??
“When will my baby sleep through the night? When can I stop swaddling? and “ When can I drop the dream feed?” are some of the first questions as a Mom that I found asking myself (and Googling for hours). Let me help you clear up the rumors and the advice, by diving into your most-asked baby sleep questions!
There are four sleep regressions. Your baby may experience all sleep regressions or maybe just a few. Generally, the four sleep regressions happen at the 4 month, 8 month, 12 month, and 18 month period. These can be tough because right when it seems like baby is making progress with sleep - a regression pops out of no where - a baby may resort back to older sleep habits.
The “dream feed” is one of my top solutions for many issues that plague babies at night, the dreamfeed can be a wonderful way to guarantee that baby is NOT hungry when he or she wakes in the night…think of it like an insurance plan for food. If your doctor has cleared your baby to drop all night feeds, the dreamfeed can be a wonderful thing to introduce to help baby night wean, still feel close and connected to Mom, and you’ll still get to visit your sweet babe at night (or have Dad go in with a bottle!!). Here’s the steps you’ll need to take!
Every year, Daylight Savings Fall Back creeps up on almost every family, parents and children alike. In November, typically on Daylight Savings Sunday morning, we “fall back” an hour, which means everyone will wake up ONE. HOUR. EARLIER. Let that sink in. If you’re one of the millions of families that is already waking up with a baby before sunrise, you’ll need to follow the steps in this blog post to help your baby finally begin to sleep in!
I know it can be really tough to hear your baby cry and feel your baby’s pain. Nothing is worse than knowing your little one is in pain and not knowing what to do to help! When your teething baby won’t sleep, it can be overwhelming for any parent. Can you relate? Teething is tough - let’s talk about what teething looks like and what you can do to help your baby during teething.
When you or your child is finally ready to drop the pacifier, what are the best methods to gently wean a baby or toddler? And when is the best time? And how exactly do you even begin?? Let's dive into the world of pacifier weaning.....
When it’s almost time to head back to school, but your babes are still hitting snooze until 8am and staying up way too late. In this post, we will discuss schedules and sleep changes to make before the bell rings.
We are SO excited to finally share our newest family edition (well, our Nephew, the first one!!), Baby Easton! Today we will walk you through his cozy space, and share all the details about how we were able to pull things old & new to create a neutral farmhouse nursery that a boy or girl could enjoy!
Welcome to Toddler Sleep Training 101! These are my foolproof and gentle techniques that I have used for years to help my clients teach their young children to sleep all night, and I can’t wait to share them with you all now!
We looked at multiple baby lists, searched thousand of movies, and even cracked open some history books to give you the BEST list of Top Baby Names for 2020! Included: Boy Names, Girl Names, Gender-Neutral Names, Southern Names, and Unique Names- check it out!
If it was easy, everyone would be able to do it, right? Teaching baby to self soothe isn’t an overnight process, but in as little as a week, you could start seeing some incredible results (like 8+ hours or more STRAIGHT!). Most doctors will agree that babies are able to self soothe by 5 months of age, however, some babies need some help learning to self soothe to begin with. Here are some ways of teaching YOUR baby to self soothe!
Does that sound like the crying patterns of your baby with colic? Aside from the tears, most families will report if they have a baby with colic, they aren’t sleeping well either. Most doctors still don’t agree what causes colic or how to fix it, but most will agree that most babies with colic will see it disappear after three months of age. 3 months is a LONG time in “babyland” right? Here are some tips to survive the next 3 months if you have a baby with colic.
