When you are planning your baby's nursery, odds are you spend lots of time thinking through your specific design plans: color schemes, coordinating furniture, accents and finishing touches, etc. But here's something you might not consider: how will the colors you select for your nursery impact your baby's mood and (most importantly, for our purposes) your baby's sleep?An important question indeed! Keep reading to learn more about how the colors you choose for your baby's nursery might impact
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Taming Summer Bedtimes: 3 Tips You Need
Summer is fully upon us, readers! But while warm temps and fun outdoor activities are great, those long, lazy days of summer may be seriously messing with your baby or toddler's inner sleep clock. Over the summer, many babies start crying at bedtime and resisting sleep even more than usual. It’s also common for toddlers to stop staying in bed and falling asleep much later, trying to tell you, “I’m not tired!”So frustrating - but not really unexpected, if you think about it. The sun goes
Baby Sleeping More Than Usual? Here Are 3 Reasons Why.
We all want our babies to sleep - but can you have too much of a good thing when it comes to baby sleep? We've written before about baby sleeping too much, but what if your baby suddenly start sleeping more than usual? What if you're suddenly seeing marathon naps, later-than-usual morning wake-up times, and finding that you need to bump up bedtime?That makes lots of parents worry.So what's behind this sudden onset of sleepiness? Why is your baby sleeping more than usual? We're sharing
Wonder Weeks Chart: How The Wonder Weeks Affect Baby and Toddler Sleep
If you're a mom in today's day and age, you've no doubt heard about The Wonder Weeks, written by a husband-and-wife team, outlining the 10 "wonder weeks" (which often cause sleep regressions), that all babies go through in the first 20 months of life. The book outlines when and why each "wonder week" happens; it also offers parents insights into how to help their babies navigate each wonder week, and turn it into a leap forward for baby.Here is how the wonder weeks
Do Babies Dream? What Do Babies Dream About?
Ever held a newborn or young baby in your arms and watched him sleep? Many babies are pretty "expressive" sleepers - during deep sleep, they twitch and jerk, they grunt and grimace, they make faces, they smile. All of that expression can make parents wonder, "Is my baby dreaming?"And it's a valid question! You dream, after all - why not your baby?In today's post, we'll take a look at just this question: do babies dream? We'll hear from some of the experts, and then open it
Sleep Regressions: Everything You Need To Know and Ages They Happen
Sleep regression. It's a phrase you probably didn't know existed before you had a baby, but now? Now that your baby is waking every 20 minutes, and you are exhausted beyond all reason? Now that your toddler is waging a fierce anti-nap campaign?Yeah - it's a phrase you're probably familiar with!Sleep Regressions: What They Are A sleep regression describes a period of time (anywhere from 1 - 4 weeks) when a baby or toddler who has been sleeping well suddenly starts waking at night,
How to Handle the Frustrating (and Exhausting) 4 Month Sleep Regression
The exhausting 4-month sleep regression is when your baby wakes very frequently at night and/or takes short naps. Although there are temporary regressions at other ages, including 8 months, 11 months, 18 months, and 2 years old, the 4-month sleep regression is a permanent change to how your baby sleeps.Learn more about this exhausting time period and how to manage it.When does the 4-month sleep regression start?The 4-month sleep regression can start any time after 8 weeks old,
Will Crib Toys Ruin Your Baby’s Sleep?
A question we hear fairly often from parents is whether or not it's okay to put toys or aquariums in the baby's crib. Lots of us use these kinds of crib toys as a way to entertain our babies, or to give them something to do after they wake up from sleep (in the hopes that they may let US sleep a little longer!). The concern for some parents, however, is that baby won't sleep and would rather play with her toys.Fortunately, this is a question we have answered before, in past articles. Keep
Your Baby’s Changing Sleep Patterns: Birth – 12 Months
As a mom or dad, you already know that the first year of your baby's life is a year of incredible growth and development. The average baby triples his birthweight by age 1, and grows an incredible 10 inches in that first year. And that's not all -- between birth and 12 months, your baby will learn to roll over, sit up, creep and crawl, and perhaps even walk.Impressive, right?Your baby's sleep patterns will change pretty significantly in the first year, too. And that's what we're