If you have spent any time reading baby sleep advice, you have probably met drowsy but awake. Possibly many, many times. The idea sounds perfectly reasonable. You feed, rock or cuddle your baby until they are lovely and sleepy, then — at exactly the right moment —...

Are Sleep Associations Really a Problem? If your baby falls asleep breastfeeding, rocking, cuddling, being carried or lying beside you, there is a good chance somebody has warned you not to let them “get used to it”. This phrase has followed parents around for years....

“Your baby needs to learn to self-soothe.” It is one of those phrases that sounds so established that we rarely stop to ask what it actually means. Sometimes self-soothing means falling asleep without being fed, rocked, held or otherwise helped. Sometimes it means...

“My baby only naps for thirty minutes.” It is one of the most common worries I hear from parents. Sometimes the nap is twenty minutes. Sometimes forty. And almost always the next question is some version of: Surely that can't be enough? It is understandable. We tend...

If you have a baby, there is a good chance you have heard about wake windows. You may have been told that a three-month-old should stay awake for a certain number of minutes, that a six-month-old should manage a little longer, and that if you miss the “right” moment,...

If your baby regularly falls asleep while breastfeeding or having a bottle, there is a good chance that at some point somebody will tell you to stop. Perhaps you have heard that feeding to sleep creates a “bad sleep association”. That your baby will become dependent...

If your baby wakes every two hours — or sometimes even more often — it is very easy to assume that something has gone wrong. Perhaps you have been told that your baby should be sleeping longer stretches by now. Maybe somebody else's baby is already “sleeping through”....