How Your Baby or Toddler’s Food Allergies and Sensitivities Can Affect Sleep

How Food Allergies Affect Your Child's Sleep

If you’re like me, you may have found yourself noticing that these days, many children seem to have food allergies and food sensitivities. SO many of my sons’ friends have milk allergies, or gluten allergies, or nut allergies. In fact, I sometimes wonder to myself, “Is it just me, or do far more kids have …

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How Rigid Should Your Baby’s Nap Schedule Be?

How Rigid Should Your Baby's Nap Schedule Be?

Your baby’s nap schedule can depend on how flexible you and your baby are and whether you and baby need plenty of consistency to sleep well.

How to Handle Your Toddler’s or Preschooler’s Nightmares and Night Terrors: Part Two

Handling your child's nightmares and night terrors

This week, we’re continuing our 2-part series about your toddler or preschooler’s nightmares and night terrors. Last week, we looked carefully at nightmares — when they begin, what causes them, and how we as parents can help our children through them. This week, we’re taking a look at night terrors. While night terrors may not …

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How to Handle Your Toddler’s or Preschooler’s Nightmares and Night Terrors: Part One

Handling Your Child's Nightmares & Night Terrors

As a parent, you’ve probably had some experience with your baby or toddler waking in the middle of the night. And if you’ve read many of our Baby Sleep Site® blog articles or free guides, you’ve likely learned a lot about what can cause night waking: sleep associations, hunger, teething, illness, schedule problems, etc. Here’s …

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How To Handle Your Baby or Toddler’s Separation Anxiety and Sleep Training

Separation Anxiety and Sleep

I’ve always thought the term “separation anxiety” wasn’t an adequate one. It sounds kind of clinical and dull, in my opinion. But those of us whose babies and toddlers have experienced separation anxiety (and I’m guessing that’s almost all of us) know that the separation anxiety is anything but dull! So maybe a term like …

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How Daycare Impacts Your Baby’s Sleep Schedule and Habits

How Daycare Impacts Sleep

When it comes to daycare, many parents have no shortage of questions, ranging from “What’s the staff to child ratio at this facility” to “How on earth am I going to beat traffic and manage a 5:30 p.m. pick-up time?!” But here’s one question you may not have thought to ask yourself: “How is daycare …

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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.