As a sleep consultant, I’m a big advocate of enjoying the outdoors as much as possible to help with sleep. Not only does natural sunlight help to establish and maintain the body’s sleep-wake cycle, it also provides an outlet for your little ones to get all of that built up energy out (let’s face it,…
Category: bedtime
Exploring Yoga for Better Sleep
Look across almost any species in nature and the pattern of sleep is present. Sleep is key to our survival – it ensures rest and recovery. Sleep nourishes and reintegrates the brain, and restores the body for everything we do when we’re awake. While so much around sleep continues to be a mystery, the study…
Top 8 Tips for a Restful Sleep
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.…
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…