Baby Sleep Team Articles | Helping parents of newborns to 18 months

Every one of these felt like the right thing to do at the time.

I wanted to be gentle. I wanted to meet my daughter's needs. And I was making sleep harder for both of us without having the faintest idea that I was doing it.

Here's what I got wrong.

1. Rushing in the second I heard a sound

What I thought: I was being responsive.

What was happening: ...

Bedtime went perfectly. They went down without a fight, you crept out, you sat down — and forty-five minutes later they're awake and it's like the whole night has restarted.

That's what we call a false start. And the reason it's so confusing is that you're looking for the problem in the wrong place. It almost never happens because of something you did at bedtime. It ha...

Before anything else: I'm a sleep consultant, not a pediatrician. For any feeding advice, please speak to your healthcare professional. What I'm sharing below is a guide, not a medical opinion, so if you have any concern at all about weight gain or your supply, that conversation belongs with your doctor rather than with me.

With that said — this is one of the most comm...

I'm one hundred percent team schedule, and I'll tell you why. But first, the thing I need you to hear before you read a single time on this page.

Your baby will never follow this perfectly. That's not realistic!

Why? Because babies aren't robots, they're babies. What a schedule gives you is a shape for the day and a reason behind each piece of it, so that when t...