Nap Battles: The Premature Two-Naps-to-One Kid
A mom is having a very hard time with getting her champion nighttime eight-month-old sleeper to nap during the day. Both mom and baby are miserable and cranky by day’s end. Is there a solution?
A mom is having a very hard time with getting her champion nighttime eight-month-old sleeper to nap during the day. Both mom and baby are miserable and cranky by day’s end. Is there a solution?
A nine month old baby is refusing to drink his bottle and instead waking up more often in the middle of the night hungry, right at the developmental stage when his parents were expecting to get more, not less sleep.
A mom who wants to try the Ferber Method sleep training with her six month old is concerned about her guilt.
A baby is champion afternoon sleeper and still manages to sleep through the night. It’s a different schedule but is that so bad?
A couple of weeks ago we answered a letter from a mom who was nervous about the guilt she would feel about sleep training her baby who she knew needed the help. We get an update on how our advice worked out for her family.
A mom of a four-month old baby needs help with starting to set a nap schedule with her daughter as well as getting her to fall asleep drowsy without nursing.
A mom of three is having a very hard time deciphering her 8 month old’s sleep schedule after several months of trying. There’s no pattern and she needs help establishing a routine that is predictable for her family.
Parents have the go-ahead from their pediatrician to help their baby learn to fall asleep on his own. Where should they start? With nighttime or naps?
Amalah helps a mom identify her baby as a “tension increaser” and figure out an alternative to the Ferber Method as a sleep training option for their family.
A mom needs help deciphering why her 3 month old baby’s witching hour is particularly problematic. Is it a sleep issue or colic?
Has a new study REALLY established a link between swaddling and SIDS? Let’s ignore the scary headlines and take a deeper look.
A baby who previously would fall asleep easily can now only do so in the arms of her mom and no one else. The parents are on the brink of hiring an expensive sleep trainer. Can something be done first?
A first-time mom is really concerned about her four-month old’s poor falling asleep sleep habits. But is it realistically the right time to effectively tackle sleep training?
A young infant is a champion sleeper once she’s finally down, but sometimes she really fights it. We help a mom decode her baby’s sleep signals.
A mom turns to Amalah looking for a plan to help transition her baby out of her swaddle.
What should a typical 4-month-old baby’s nap schedule look like when nighttime sleep is going great?
A baby, who is an otherwise an excellent sleeper, fights her third nap of the day even though it’s clear she still needs it. Amalah provides some advice to help out during this “transition” time.
Amalah walks a mom through how to get an infant to back to sleep, in the middle of the night after a feeding, in that optimal drowsy state so the baby can fall asleep independently.
My four-month-old baby is a great sleeper but is starting to need to be nursed back to sleep in the middle of the night. Am I setting up a bad sleep habit?
What does the four month sleep regression look like? Or is my baby experiencing a growth spurt? Or could it be both? What do I do?