Should You Give Your Baby or Toddler Melatonin to Sleep?

Should You Give Your Baby Melatonin to Help Them Sleep?

We work hard to stay on top of the latest news and trends related to sleep – particularly baby and toddler sleep. It’s important to us that we’re always using current research, recommendations, and best practices in our work with families. When one of our sleep consultants passed a local news story about a sleep …

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5 Bad Nap Habits Your Baby May Develop

5 Bad Nap Habits Your Baby May Develop

Did you know that your baby can develop habits at lightning-fast speeds? It’s true! Even though she cannot walk or talk yet, she can develop a deeply-rooted habit very, very quickly. This explains why, after just a few days of rocking your baby to sleep, she will come to expect to be rocked. And this …

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How Your Baby’s Growth Spurts Affect Sleep and Feeding

How Your Baby’s Growth Spurts Affect Sleep And Feeding

You may already know that things like teething, illness, and sleep regressions can affect your baby’s schedule. But did you know that your baby will go through a series of growth spurts in the first year of life and that these can cause big disruptions in sleep and feeding? Baby Growth Spurts: When They Happen …

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5 Tips for How To Handle Your Toddler’s Temper Tantrums (Especially Sleep-Time Tantrums!)

How To Handle Your Toddler’s Temper Tantrums

One of the toughest things about raising a toddler has got to be, without a doubt, the tantrums. Few things can make a parent’s blood pressure rise like a full-blown, ear-splitting, kicking-and-screaming tantrum. And a tantrum that happens in public? Like in the middle of Target on the Saturday before Christmas, when what seems like …

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7 Tips When Baby Won’t Nap

7 tips to use when your baby won't nap.

Baby & toddler naps are important for growth & development. What if baby won’t nap? Learn 7 tips to help with your baby or toddler’s naps!

Why Consistency Is So Important During Sleep Training

Why Consistency Is So Important During Sleep Training

Based on extensive experience working with parents over the last 15+ years, we at The Baby Sleep Site have found something to be true… When used with consistency, the right sleep training method can work wonders for a baby’s nighttime sleep problems, or a toddler’s persistent sleep issues. The two key words in that statement? …

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FREE Guide: Five Ways To Help Your Child Sleep Through the Night

Tired of night wakings? Start with 5 proven steps that have helped millions of parents.