Sleep deprivation is often brushed off as a normal rite of passage in early parenting. Friends joke about it. Social media memes normalize it. Many parents quietly accept it as something they just have to survive. But prolonged, unresolved exhaustion is not harmless. It takes a measurable emotional, mental, and physical toll. At Rocky Mountain
“Your baby just needs to learn how to self-soothe.” It’s a phrase parents hear all the time, often said casually and without much explanation. In conversations about baby sleep and pediatric sleep, self-soothing gets used as a blanket term, one that can leave parents feeling confused, pressured, or like they’re somehow doing something wrong. Let’s
If your baby fights sleep, wakes frequently, or seems exhausted but won’t settle, you may be stuck in one of the most frustrating patterns in baby sleep: the overtired cycle. Many parents are told that keeping a baby awake longer will help them sleep better. In pediatric sleep, we know that the opposite is often