One of the most challenging aspects once your baby starts sleeping through the night, is re-establishing healthy sleep habits that also help you sleep through the night. Getting a restful sleep is as important for parents as it is for infants. As a naturopathic doctor, this is a common concern I see with many parents.…
Category: bedtime
Holiday Sleep Tips
The holidays can sometimes be a stressful time for parents. In addition to the shopping, holiday preparations, events, etc, parents with younger children often think about how they will manage their child’s sleep with everything going on. Here are some basic tips and suggestions for the holiday madness! Firstly though, we are living through a…
Spring Forward and Fall Back
Although Daylight Savings Time affects all of us, not just children, it can be particularly disadvantageous on children who are already very sensitive to schedule changes. For some families, time changes can cause a few weeks of being back to restless nights, early wake ups or short naps. Fortunately, there are some strategies that may…
Is it Night or Day?
It’s usually you asking this question as a new, exhausted parent because you’re up so frequently with your baby that you end up not knowing the difference of when your day starts and when it ends. There is no consistency, no patterns, and no set schedule, all things that we have come to crave over…
Nighty Night, Sleep Tight
Why a Bedtime/Naptime Routine is Important… Do you ever do anything specifically before bed to help yourself wind down from a long busy day of errands, household chores, meal prep, work, etc, etc, etc…? Perhaps you take a bath, catch up on some shows, do some light reading or brush and floss your teeth (this…
Safety First!
We never want to think about it, but it does happen. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), refers to the death of an infant younger than one year of age that cannot be explained. It’s hard enough to think about your child going through painful teething or being sick with a cold, let alone something as…