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  • Helping Your Child Fall Asleep Alone

    Your child simply won't fall asleep unless you're at right along side. Ready for a change? Learn how to transition from cuddling with a parent to snoozing alone.

  • No More Rock Me to Sleep

    Your child has been rocked every night since birth. You'd really like to end this routine. What is the best way to get your tot to go to bed on his own?

  • Gizmos and Gadgets That Help Your Baby Sleep

    Sleep. The final frontier. Will you ever reach it? We have a few solutions for you that will almost always transport your baby to the land of nod.

  • Is Kourtney Kardashian Strange for Co-Sleeping with Her Toddler?

    On the premiere of "Kourtney & Kim Take New York" Sunday night, it was revealed that Kourtney co-sleeps with her toddler, Mason (who is just adorable), while her baby daddy sleeps in another room. This is not so unusual, nor, do we think, such a crazy thing.

  • Is Your Baby Sleeping with a Meat Cleaver?

    Co-sleeping has always been a controversial subject but a new campaign by the city of Milwaukee against co-sleeping has people talking.

  • The Truth About Babies and Sleep

    A few years ago, the U.S.-based National Sleep Foundation discovered that 20% to 30% of nine-month old babies were still getting up in the night. Is yours?

  • Tips on Getting Kids to Bed (and Keeping Them in Bed)

    What can you do to peacefully get your kids to go to bed at their scheduled bedtime?  And what can you do to help them stay tucked in bed?

  • Heath's Journey 4/21/10

    Where to Start? I think I am going to do this blog in categories.

    Post op visit:
    It went well. He was all healed and no more need for pain meds. He was also taken off the every 4 hour treatments and now we will only use then as needed. The fear is if we do them to often and he has a real attack the meds won't work for him. Only advice ENT could give me was wait and see what the sleep study says, before changing anything.

    Speech/ASL/Hearing:

  • Eight Sleep Tips for Every Child

    These tips can bring improvement not only in your child's sleep, but also in her daytime mood and last, but not least -- improvements in your own sleep and outlook as well.

  • Is Kourtney Kardashian Strange for Co-Sleeping with Her Toddler?

    On the premiere of "Kourtney & Kim Take New York" Sunday night, it was revealed that Kourtney co-sleeps with her toddler, Mason (who is just adorable), while her baby daddy sleeps in another room. This is not so unusual, nor, do we think, such a crazy thing.

  • Tips on Getting Kids to Bed (and Keeping Them in Bed)

    What can you do to peacefully get your kids to go to bed at their scheduled bedtime?  And what can you do to help them stay tucked in bed?

  • From A to ZZZZs: Solving Baby Sleep Problems

    by Ann Douglas

  • Laughing Through the Chaos - Things I could be doing right now...

    BUT! These moments of quiet tranquility could end at any given moment, so I'm going to savor them. I'm going to use nap time for what I believe God intended nap time to be. ME TIME. I need my quiet time - my time to sit back, relax and do something for myself.

  • Will Solids Help Baby Sleep?

    My 30-year-old daughter has a beautiful 9-month-old baby girl. Previously baby was sleeping about five hours. I think that she needs more solid foods, and my daughter insists that babies cannot digest food this early. Can you help?

  • Please...Please...Go to SLEEP!

    Sleep, for parents and baby is precious, and luckily there are many ways to help improve the length and quality of it for all. For babies under a year old....What if your child is older; a toddler who needs more than a bit of encouragement to enter dreamland?

  • Depleted Mother Syndrome

    One morning a few months after our second child, Laurel, was born -- we'd been up much of the night (again) and were blotto with fatigue -- my wife looked at me and said "Parenting can wreck your life!"

  • Babies and Sleep: Reluctance to Let Go of Those Nighttime Moments

    Here's something that may really surprise you: As much as we may want our babies to sleep through the night, our own subconscious emotions sometimes hold us back from encouraging change in our babies' sleeping habits. You yourself may be the very obstacle preventing a change in a routine that disrupts your life. So let's figure out if anything is standing in your way.

  • Maximize the Benefits of Pacifiers and Minimize Problems

    Do begin offering a pacifier after breastfeeding is well established. Sometimes a baby will refuse the breast after sucking on a rubber nipple. This is commonly referred to as nipple confusion. I suspect, however, there is no confusion -- some babies simply prefer a rubber nipple.