Category: infant sleep
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Survival Tips for the Holiday Season with Babies and Young Children | Whole Health Baby
If you have a baby and/or a young child, the holidays have the potential to feel challenging. If sleep or feeding has been difficult, often those issues are heightened over the holidays. For example, plugged ducts and mastitis often increase during the holidays and sleep issues are unfortunately very common. Instead of focusing on those…
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Sleep Debt and Disturbed Sleep
Babies that are overtired or have sleep debt fall asleep very quickly and skip the early, lighter sleep stages, but often wake throughout the night.
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Homeopathy for Moms and Babies
Homeopathy is an individualized system of medicine based on a person’s symptoms. It is my secret weapon for lactation, sleep, and many postpartum concerns .
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Your Baby’s Sleep and Your Fatigue
The less your baby sleeps, the more tired you are, right? Well, maybe not. According to some research, parental fatigue may not be as closely related to how their babies sleep as you might think.
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Sleep “regressions”
Ihate the term sleep “regression”. Not only does it imply that sleep is a skill that babies have to learn (spoiler alert: it’s not), but it also implies that there is something wrong with your baby’s sleep. In truth, babies go through times of sleep disturbances and that is normal.
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5 Things I Wish I Knew Sooner About Infant Sleep
My understanding of infant sleep has changed so much over the years. After my first baby was born, I knew absolutely nothing about infant sleep, and I regularly relied on information on the internet about schedules and wake windows. All the information out there about what I “should” be doing or how my baby “should”…
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Taking My Own Advice as a Naturopathic Doctor and Tired Mom
As a naturopathic doctor who supports postpartum moms, I talk a lot about strategies moms can use to manage their fatigue especially when their babies or small children are going through a rough patch with sleep. Unfortunately, I don’t always take my own advice. A couple of weeks ago, my 18-month-old started having a tough…
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Normal Infant Sleep
A month or so ago, I was up at 2am nursing my 18 pound, 9 month old when I came across an IG reel by a sleep coach who said that if a baby weighs at least 12 pounds and is over 3 months, they are capable of sleeping through the night. Apparently, my baby…