Sleep training toddlers isn’t for the weak. You and your toddler is exhausted, and whatever progress you feel like you’ve made seems to disappear the next night. Mama, I hear you. In this article, Pediatric Sleep Consultant Eva Klein, owner of My Sleeping Baby and mom of 3, walks us through some important tips toddler…
When my daughter was younger, anything–I mean, anything–could wake her up. My firstborn was a pretty good sleeper. We did the whole sleep training thing and she slept 8 hours a night by 8 weeks. My second daughter? No. I did it all. Sleep training, magnesium cream, sound machines, sleep routines…I’ve even put aluminum foil…
It’s been hours since your baby has last slept. You know he’s tired and yet his body seems to be in overdrive. His little limbs are jerking wildly. You have a feeling that cranky whine is about to turn into a full-blown wail. He needs sleep. You need sleep. And yet, sleep seems like the…
Before becoming a parent, you had no idea that you were capable of surviving on this little sleep. The second your baby’s head touches her crib, she wakes up and starts wailing. You’ve tried everything. Nursing your baby to sleep, rocking, swaddling (crying with her…), and you just can not figure this out. At best,…
You’re exhausted. You’ve heard other moms talk about their newborns getting 6,7, even 8 hours of sleep and yet here you are sipping your second cup of coffee, wishing you could get just 3. Or maybe you’re expecting your first baby and know absolutely nothing about newborn sleep. You only know that the nightmare scenario…
I love sleep. In fact, the only thing I dreaded about becoming a mother was the idea of losing sleep. Before my first daughter was born, I researched everything I could on how to get my baby to sleep quickly. And guess what? My breastfed baby slept through the night by 8 weeks. When I…