by jenbabywhisperer | Nov 6, 2018 | babies, Baby Sleep Tips, Child Sleep Tips, General Health, Healthy Sleep Habit, Healthy Sleep Habits, infants, toddlers
The first five years of a child’s life are explosive in terms of their overall development and will set the stage for the person they will become. By age three, your toddler’s brain is 80% the size of an adult’s and reaches 90% of its potential size...
by jenbabywhisperer | Jul 31, 2018 | Baby Sleep Tips, get your baby to sleep better, Healthy Sleep Habits
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: attachment parenting and sleep training are not mutually exclusive. Nope. And this may surprise some of you, but sleep training does not require you to leave your babies to cry themselves to sleep. Shocking,...
by jenbabywhisperer | Jul 17, 2018 | babies, Baby Sleep Tips, Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child
Parenting can be a sensitive topic, and the advice is not in short supply. From the time you celebrate your baby shower to your first visitors in the hospital, you’re bombarded with “advice” on how to parent your baby. And likely, from the moment... by jenbabywhisperer | Jun 26, 2018 | Baby Sleep Tips, get your baby to sleep better
The witching hour. Sleep regression. Whatever you call it, early morning wakings can be the bane of any parent’s existence, especially when the alarm is set to sound just an hour or two after your baby begins crying. To better understand why your baby is waking at the... by jenbabywhisperer | Jun 12, 2018 | babies, Baby Sleep Tips, get your baby to sleep, get your baby to sleep better, infants, naps, Newborn
Google the phrase “sleep regression.” C’mon, I dare you. What do you see? A lot of articles with words like dreaded, survive, beat in the titles. Like anything, something simple can quickly become alarming when put into a negative context — much like sleep... by jenbabywhisperer | May 15, 2018 | babies, Baby Sleep Tips, naps, toddlers
Just when it seems you’ve gotten into a comfortable rhythm of morning and afternoon naps, your baby’s sleep behavior begins to change, and you start to wonder what’s causing the disruption. Are you sitting down? The culprit may be that your baby…needs less...