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Many parents wonder if and when they should introduce a lovey to their little one. A lovey is a small comfort item that is often used to help children self-soothe. Stuffed animals and small blankets are the most common options for a lovey.
Your toddler’s potty training will absolutely affect their sleep. If you go into this transition period informed, you can lessin the sleepless nights. The Potty Training Timeline When you start potty training, it is a good idea to start by only focusing on daytime. Use a pull up at night time so that your child
Traveling with kids is a completely different experience than traveling without them. It isn’t a bad thing, it’s just different. There are more logistics to figure out, more things to pack, cost typically increases with more travelers, and your activity options are probably determined by the ages of your travelers. For most parents, one of
If your child is experiencing a struggle falling asleep or staying asleep it can do with a dependency on sleep props. What are sleep props? They are anything that are used to help your baby fall asleep. This can be an activity like rocking, bouncing, feeding, etc. It can be items like a pacifier, swaddle,
When your little one is on a liquid diet at the beginning of their life, they need a bedtime nursing or bottle to help fill them up. This pre-bedtime feeding helps ensure that they are full and can sleep longer stretches. Their needs will change as you start introducing solid foods. Eventually, they will get
Most babies begin to roll over around 3 to 5 months old. This is an exciting milestone for parents to witness that is often followed by a new level of anxiety. Parents are alarmed when they glance at the baby monitor screen and their baby isn’t exactly where they had been placed in their bassinet
You might be experiencing some sleep regression with your toddler in the form of them rejecting naptime. Your toddler is not alone! A lot of families have to work through napstime rejection. Rejecting naps can happen for a few days or a few weeks, either way, there is hope for getting back on track! There
Ah, summer. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the kids are out of school. For busy parents, this can be a time of both excitement and dread. Excitement for all the fun summer activities you can do with your little ones, and dread for the inevitable sleep training that must take place.
Every parent has heard another parent casually recommend giving melatonin to their child to help them fall asleep. Some parents use it on a regular basis and others may have used it once for something like an airplane ride. For many parents, they wonder how safe it is to take melatonin since it is a natural product. There are many factors that play into if melatonin is appropriate to introduce to a child.
Getting your child on a sleep schedule is a process that includes a lot of effort and time. Parents are understandably defensive of sticking to the schedule that they have invested so much into creating. Sometimes our plans for the day get derailed unexpectedly. Other times, we go into days knowing we can’t stick to our schedule if we want to take part in plans we can’t control. Once you have a solid foundation in place with your child sleeping, you can become more flexible. You have to think about the long game with sleep training.
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