Awake again with a baby in the middle of the night, watching heinous reruns of Keeping Up with the Kardashians (What else is on a 3 am?), you dream of the nights when you slept more than 2 consecutive hours in a row. You’re exhausted. You're a tired mom. After months of sleep deprivation and looking at endless baby sleep tips, you know [...]
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How to Potty Train a Toddler Without a Hazmat Suit
Oh, the dreaded toddler potty training. If you ask parents of small children about their biggest struggles, most will say helping kids sleep and teaching kids to go on the potty. It’s an adventure, and teaching a young child to do just about anything takes time and endless patience. This is why another huge struggle is learning [...]
3 Important Goals to Consider Before Baby Sleep Training
Sometimes baby sleep training gets a bad rap. There are countless misconceptions about what baby sleep training really involves, and readers frequently are ask questions about first steps to take and overall sleep goals for baby. I relate so much to that feeling... How do you know which baby sleep tips are best for healthy sleep [...]
9 Phrases That Change Life With a Toddler
I walked into the bathroom and closed the door. I could still hear my kids screaming through the bathroom door, as my face fell into the palms of my hands. It was the toddler day from you know where. I wanted to say and do some really mean things to my kids. I reached my limit. Do good moms even say things like that? I told myself [...]
9 Amazing Baby Sleep Tips for Night Waking
I hope you find these baby sleep tips for night waking helpful! When my son was first born, I had the whole night waking thing all wrong. There I was in the middle of the night with all the lights on, eating some crunchy snack, and watching horrible late night reality TV in the midst of feeding my baby. post contains affiliate [...]
How to Lay your Baby Down Awake, but Drowsy
Like I said in my Top Ten Newborn Baby Sleep Tips, laying your baby down awake but drowsy can be kind of tricky sometimes trying to get the timing down and catching your baby's optimal sleep window. It’s also helpful because I believe it is the number one way to help your baby sleep through the night when he is ready. My goal in [...]
How to Handle Baby Sleep Debt Recovery
Today I’m continuing my baby sleep tips and talking about Baby Sleep Debt Recovery and what to do when your baby has missed out on some much needed sleep. How do we help our little ones get back on track? Our son just suffered his greatest sleep debt to date when we traveled from the Midwest to Okinawa, Japan. By the time we reached the [...]
How to Handle Road Trips with a Baby
Our family—my husband, 1 year old son, and I—took a road trip from coastal North Carolina all the way back to the Midwest, hauling a trailer. Yikes! The trailer and baby slowed our trip down immensely, and by the time it was all said and done, it nearly topped 24 hours. Road trips with a baby are tough...but it can be done! I recently [...]
Best Baby Sleep Tips for Better Naps
If you are looking for baby sleep tips to help with a baby who takes short naps, you are not alone. (Note: You can find Part 1 - Baby Sleep Tips for Longer Naps here.) It's an incredibly common problem and many parents don't know where to find practical solutions that really work. Baby sleep tips are a dime a dozen these days, but I'm a [...]
Best Baby Sleep Tips for Longer Naps
As I first time mom I remember looking down at my infant son, and thinking ‘I was told there would be more naps!’ He was a little guy just doing his own thing. Wide awake. Ready to go. Not a good napper in the slightest. In fact, I read all the newborn baby sleep tips in the world trying to figure his naps out. Naps can involve a lot of [...]