Author: Macall Gordon

Macall is a certified Gentle Sleep Coach with a Master’s degree in psychology (Infant Mental Health) from Antioch University and a BS in Human Biology from Stanford University. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Antioch University’s graduate department of counseling psychology teaching research methods. She has also conducted and presented research at international conferences on infant sleep interventions, temperament, and parenting advice. She’s currently writing a book about how a “livelier” temperament impacts sleep (and effort to get more).

Babies in Their Own Room at 4-months Sleep Longer? Not Necessarily

Babies in Their Own Room at 4-months Sleep Longer? Not Necessarily You may have seen headlines about a study that found that babies in their own room sleep longer and better. The study published in the June 2017 issue of Pediatrics reported that “room-sharing at ages 4 and 9 months is associated with less nighttime […]

Baby Sleep and Temperament: How it Affects Sleep and Everything Else

Baby Sleep and Temperament: How it Affects Sleep and Everything Else Did your baby come out of the womb ready to take on the world? Alert babies are fun, smart, and often have a hard time with sleep. Baby sleep and temperament are so connected that it often requires some different strategies to get the […]

Sleep Training at Four Months? Why it May Be Better to Wait

Sleep Training at Four Months? Why it May Be Better to Wait Just a caveat before we start: If you started sleep training at four months and it worked well without a lot of stress, this article isn’t for you. For some families, with predictable, mellow babies or family needs that require big chunks of […]

We Must Stop Blaming Parents for Baby Sleep Problems

We Must Stop Blaming Parents for Baby Sleep Problems This article has been reprinted with permission. Original title: “Sleep research and advice is full of parent-shaming and it needs to stop” I recently met a woman who told me that when her baby was roughly four-months-old, she was persistently fussy and just wouldn’t sleep…at all. […]