Setting Olive up with the skill of self-settling
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4y ago
For the first eight months, Olive had been a “super cool” baby. However, the nights were difficult. “Olive would take a while to settle to sleep at night,” her mum Serlina recalls. “She’d get to sleep about 7pm, but wake again at 10pm for a feed. It could take up to two hours to get her back to sleep at that point, before we’d be up again at 2am with Olive wanting to party.” A little early bird, Olive then seemed ready to start the day around 5:30am. Initially Serlina and her husband put the broken sleep down to teething. Other times they gave some leeway as it seemed Olive was going through ..read more
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Baby Sleep Consultant – Comprehensive Guide to Baby + Toddler Naps
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4y ago
Baby Sleep Consultant – Comprehensive Guide to Baby + Toddler Nap Baby Sleep Consultant – Comprehensive Guide to Baby + Toddler Nap Adelaide Baby Sleep Consultant  takes us through her best nap ideas. As parents, we know we need them – and we’re fairly sure our children do too, although they sometimes take a bit of convincing. And then there are all the misconceptions and comparisons – who is having what amount of sleep, who is catnapping, and how you deal. So here I thought I’d put together my most comprehensive guide to baby and toddler naps. BENEFITS OF A BIT OF DAYTIME SLEEP In s ..read more
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Breaking the feeding through the night association
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4y ago
Breaking the feeding through the night association Breaking the feeding to sleep association Your baby is born neurologically very immature, they don’t know the difference between night and day, and thus round the clock feeding and napping without any decent blocks of night sleep is pretty normal and to be expected. It’s easy to start feeding to sleep, and almost to be expected. As your newborn moves through those early months, their circadian rhythm develops, they know the difference between night and day, and lots of babies start to sleep 6-8 hours in a row around three to four mont ..read more
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Navigating the six-month minefield
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4y ago
Navigating the six-month minefield Navigating the six-month minefield It’s no surprise to me that the most common age that we start working with babies is when they hit the six month mark. There’s so much going on at six months old that can affect a little one’s sleep. As a baby’s sleep cycle matures, they’ve likely started catnapping. You might be starting to introduce solids and move around their milk feeds, and there is (in some cases) the arrival of those first few teeth. Some mums and dads may have been holding onto the belief that six months is somehow a magical age when the cha ..read more
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The official word on sleeping through the night
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4y ago
The official word on sleeping through the night The official word on sleeping through the night I would hazard a guess that most parents have lost track of how many times they’ve been asked if their child is sleeping through the night. It’s considered the holy grail of sleep, and it’s plain to see why. But first, confusion abounds as to what actually constitutes sleeping through the night; everyone seems to have a different definition. We define sleeping through the night as a child going to bed between 6-7pm and getting up between 6-7am, with zero to one feeds or resettles in between ..read more
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From tranquility to turmoil
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4y ago
From tranquility to turmoil From tranquility to turmoil For Amy’s first few months, sleeping had mostly been a breeze. An easy going and good sleeper, one feed would keep her asleep for up to 8 hours. However, that all changed when Amy hit five and a half months old. All of a sudden, the great systems Amy’s Mum, Cara, had in place simply stopped working and Amy’s sleep deteriorated quickly. She began to take up to an hour to settle each evening and was waking up multiple times overnight for a feed. Night times rapidly became stressful and exhausting. According to Cara, a month of thes ..read more
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A little night owl makes the switch
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4y ago
A little night owl makes the switch For Waikato-based mum Annette and her husband, day-to-day life was intense with two littlies. Their son, Kaleb, and daughter, Carly, were just 13 months apart, and they were right in the thick of the baby and early toddler stages. “I had been following Baby Sleep Consultant on Facebook for some time and got lots of handy tips, but after my daughter arrived and we’d got through the newborn fog, it was my toddler’s sleep habits that were giving us problems,” Annette recalls. Having learnt from her experience with Kaleb (then 20 months), Annette had man ..read more
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Teething and Sleep – what does the science have to say?
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4y ago
Teething – your babies sleep, and everything you need to know about teething. One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the number of opinions that get paraded as facts when it comes to parenting. Sure, so much of the rollercoaster of parenting is about intuition and following our gut – however, there’s also a lot of misinformation that can (and does) lead us astray. I see this time and again in relation to teething. From what I can tell, this problem stretches back a really long way… Back in the mid 1800s, teething was considered such a serious disease that apparently 4% of inf ..read more
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Toddler techniques get Lincoln back on track – just in time!
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5y ago
Two and a half year old Lincoln had generally been a pretty good sleeper; he thrived on routine and his mum, Tash, was good at sticking to one. However, partway through Tash’s second pregnancy, Lincoln’s sleep regressed. Tired and feeling sick, Tash reached for quick fixes to soothe Lincoln and get him back to sleep as quickly as she was able to. “Lincoln had been weaned off any sort of bottle for some time, but when he started waking up in the middle of the night and demanding cuddles, I gave him a bottle because it seemed easier and I needed to get him settled and back to sleep,” Tash exp ..read more
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