When you are planning your baby's nursery, odds are you spend lots of time thinking through your specific design plans: color schemes, coordinating furniture, accents and finishing touches, etc. But here's something you might not consider: how will the colors you select for your nursery impact your baby's mood and (most importantly, for our purposes) your baby's sleep? An important question indeed! Keep reading to learn more about how the colors you choose for your baby's nursery might impact
Baby Sleep Patterns
Taming Summer Bedtimes: 3 Tips You Need
Summer is fully upon us, readers! But while warm temps and fun outdoor activities are great, those long, lazy days of summer may be seriously messing with your baby or toddler's inner sleep clock. Over the summer, many babies start crying at bedtime and resisting sleep even more than usual. It’s also common for toddlers to stop staying in bed and falling asleep much later, trying to tell you, “I’m not tired!” So frustrating - but not really unexpected, if you think about it. The sun goes
Baby Sleeping More Than Usual? Here Are 3 Reasons Why.
We all want our babies to sleep - but can you have too much of a good thing when it comes to baby sleep? We've written before about babies sleeping too much, but what if your baby suddenly starts sleeping more than usual? What if you're suddenly seeing marathon naps, later-than-usual morning wake-up times, and/or finding that you need to bump up to an earlier bedtime? This can make many parents worry. So what's behind this sudden onset of sleepiness? Why is your baby sleeping more than
Wonder Weeks Chart: How The Wonder Weeks Affect Baby and Toddler Sleep
If you're a parent, you've no doubt heard about The Wonder Weeks, written by Xaviera Plooij, Frans X. Plooij PhD, and Hetty van de Rijt PhD. The book outlines the 10 "wonder weeks" during infant development (which often cause sleep regressions), that all babies go through in the first 20 months of life. The book outlines when and why each "wonder week" happens; it also offers parents insights into how to help their babies navigate each wonder week, and turn it into a leap forward for baby. But,
6 Week Sleep Regression? Or Growth Spurt?
"My newborn baby was sleeping so well...what happened??" Sound familiar? We hear this all. the. time. Our answers vary, depending on the unique baby in question. In our experience, the answer can be anything from teething to illness to temperament to the birth of a new sibling to a nap transition. But often, our answer is - sleep regression. Common Sleep Regressions Generally, we offer up a diagnosis of sleep regression for babies and toddlers who are the following ages: 4
Do Babies Dream? What Do Babies Dream About?
Ever held a newborn or young baby in your arms and watched him sleep? Many babies are pretty "expressive" sleepers. During deep sleep, they twitch and jerk, they grunt and grimace, they make faces, they smile. All of that expression can make parents wonder, "Is my baby dreaming?" And it's a valid question! You dream, after all - why not your baby? In today's post, we'll take a look at just this question: do babies dream? We'll hear from some of the experts, and then open it up to you, to
Sleep Regressions: Ages and Everything You Need To Know to Handle Them
Sleep regressions occur at many ages usually around 6 weeks, 4 months, 8 to 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, and 2 years old. It's a phrase you probably didn't know existed before you had a baby, but now? Now that your baby is waking frequently, and you are exhausted beyond all reason? Now that your toddler is waging a fierce anti-nap campaign? Yeah - "sleep regression" is a phrase you're probably familiar with! Sleep Regressions: What They Are A sleep regression describes a period of time
4 Month Sleep Regression: 20 Tips to Fix this Exhausting Phase In Your Baby’s Life
The 3-4-5 month sleep regression is a period when your baby's sleep patterns change and causes baby to wake frequently at night and take short naps. Sleep regressions are exhausting but you can help your baby sleep better! Learn 20 tips based on my 10+ years as a sleep consultant to get through this frustrating and exhausting period. What is The 4 Month Sleep Regression? The 4 month sleep regression means your baby is likely waking up excessively in the middle of the night and/or taking
Will Crib Toys Ruin Your Baby’s Sleep?
A question we hear fairly often from parents is whether or not it's okay to put toys or aquariums in the baby's crib. Lots of us use these kinds of crib toys as a way to entertain our babies, or to give them something to do after they wake up from sleep (in the hopes that they may let US sleep a little longer!). The concern for some parents, however, is that baby won't sleep and would rather play with her toys. Fortunately, this is a question we have answered before, in past articles. Keep