White noise has become one of those baby sleep tools that can sound either essential or terrifying, depending on what you happen to read first. One person tells you that your baby needs it because the womb was noisy. Another warns that you could damage your...

One of the things that can feel surprisingly confusing when your baby starts nursery or spends part of the week with another caregiver is that their sleep may suddenly look completely different there. Perhaps your baby only naps on you at home but sleeps in a cot at...

Baby sleep advice has a strange tendency to become increasingly precise the longer you look at it. At first you are told roughly how much babies sleep. Then you find a sample routine. Before long, you are looking at a timetable telling you that your baby should nap at...

Nap transitions have an irritating habit of looking obvious only in retrospect. For weeks, everything can feel slightly wrong. The last nap takes forever to happen, bedtime moves later, yesterday your baby managed perfectly well on two naps and today they are falling...

Few things feel more counterintuitive than waking a sleeping baby. You may have spent twenty minutes feeding, rocking, walking or negotiating with the universe to get them to sleep, and now somebody is suggesting that you deliberately wake them up. I understand the...