Child sleep issues can range depending on age; if you have a younger child, you may be battling moving to a big bed and dropping a nap. For an older child, you may be encountering some new bedtime battles or you’re looking to end co-sleeping. Maybe you sleep trained your child at a younger age and they are now regressing, or you’ve found that the only way to get your child to sleep is to lay down with them, and you want to break that habit without your child crying it out.
We want to help you set schedules and routines that work for your family, even with the cumbersome bedtime rituals and habits that children can create. We can help solve your child’s sleep problems without closing the door and leaving them to cry. We want to help you create solid sleep habits for life.
For this age, bedtime can be the most challenging part of the day! Your child still needs a soothing bedtime routine with loving limits on things like bedtime stories, tuck ins and other “curtain calls” as we like to call them. In the resources below we will answer questions about your child’s schedule, how to sleep train a child in a bed and ideal bedtimes for children.
When it comes to co-sleeping, we are passionate about finding a solution that feels right for you, even if it wasn’t what you’d planned, hoped or expected. You may have been a committed co-sleeper with your child since they were an infant, but now you’re ready to transition your child to their own bed and room. Or, you never planned on co-sleeping but that was the only way you got your child to sleep. Regardless of what category you fall into, we have solutions for you.
We generally recommend that parents wait until their child is 2.5-3 years to transition from a crib into a “big kid” bed. During this age range, your child will have the verbal skills to understand the bed rules, and they have impulse control to help them stay in bed. It’s a common misconception that moving to a bed will solve an already existing sleep problem, but it rarely does.
Early rising is when your child wakes up before 6am, groggy and disoriented. There are 5 causes for early rising in children, that we will outline in these resources. Once you figure out what is causing the early rising, you can create a plan to change it! We want to note that if you’ve sleep trained for early rising in your child and they are still waking, there may be an underlying medical issue and we advise you consult with your doctor.
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Fall Back: Daylight Saving Sleep Transition Tips for your Child Mark your calendars: On Sunday, November 7th, 2021 at 2:00 a.m. most of us need to set our clocks back one hour. In Europe the clocks fall back on October 31, 2021 at 2:00 a.m. Summer always seems to fly by. In fact, it hasn’t…
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