Bottle feeding is often presented as a fairly technical job. Choose the milk, sterilise the equipment, work out how much your baby should have, and keep an eye on how many millilitres disappear from the bottle. All of those practical things have their place. But...

You know your baby is tired. They were yawning ten minutes ago, rubbing their eyes and starting to become a little less cheerful about life. You begin settling them, expecting sleep to follow. Instead, they suddenly seem to have discovered a second career. They...

If your baby wakes frequently, needs help falling asleep or wants you close at night, sooner or later somebody will probably suggest sleep training. Sometimes it is presented as one possible option. More often, it sounds like a developmental necessity: your baby needs...

Few baby sleep topics become polarised as quickly as bedsharing. You may have been told that you should never bring your baby into your bed, under any circumstances. Or you may have heard the opposite: that sleeping beside your baby is biologically normal and...

Few baby sleep objects attract quite as much judgement as the dummy. Some parents are warned never to introduce one because it will interfere with breastfeeding. Others are told they should introduce one because it reduces the risk of SIDS. Then, once the baby likes...

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 baby's...

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...