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How to help a child with ADHD to sleep
The connection between your child’s ADHD and their sleep is well known and documented, although there is still a need for further research in this field. Discover 3 key tips on how to improve your ADHD child’s sleep.
How to survive the sleepless nights
Sleep deprivation is unfortunately mostly part of being a parent. However sleep is more important than ever to survive modern parenting. Here are my top tips on how to survive the sleepless nights
How to help your child to sleep through the night
Have you been wondering what the secret recipe is to help your child to sleep through the night? No idea where to start or what the answer is? Discover my 5 key tips on how to help your child to sleep through the night
How to stop rocking your baby or toddler to sleep
Rocking to sleep maybe impacting your child’s ability to fall asleep independently. However, to reassure you, a sleep association isn’t usually the only reason why your baby or toddler is waking or in the night or taking shorter naps. Although it is likely to play a part.
How to help your baby or child to sleep without leaving them to cry?
There is a common misconception that in order to improve your child’s sleep that you need to use crying strategies such as cry it out, leave and check, controlled crying, Ferber method or any other traditional sleep training technique that involves lots of crying. Gentle and holistic sleep coaching is sleep support for parents which looks at promoting good quality sleep for children from day 1 of their life.
How improving your sleep can help your finances
The new world we live in can be scary, uncertain & stressful. When you are supporting a family in the new financial crisis, it is common to experience negative emotional states such as stress, anxiety, and depression. The link between mental health and sleep is widely reported, when we are in any of these states, your sleep is likely to suffer.
How to reconnect with your pre parent self
Here are 10 realistic ways to reconnect with your pre parent self, so that you can find yourself in parenthood
Reclaim your bed: How to help your child to sleep in their own bed
Regardless of the reason why you chose to bedshare, you may find now that you need your bed back as you have another baby on the way, your child is keeping you awake in your own bed, or you have just had enough and need your own space back. Discover my first steps on how to reclaim your bed
Why is my baby taking short naps
Discover why your baby or toddler is taking short naps. If you know my story, then you will have read that our former sleep thief would nap for a maximum of 29 minutes all day. This was until we worked with a sleep consultant (before I become a Gentle Sleep Coach) just before he turned 1.
My child won’t go to sleep for my partner or husband
This is one of the most common challenges I hear from sleepless mums, that your baby or toddler will not go to sleep for anyone else but you. It maybe that you are trying to help your partner/husband, nanny or your child’s keyworker to be able to put your child down to sleep, but feel like you are fighting a losing battle. Here are my 3 key tips on how to introduce your partner to settle or resettle your child to sleep.
How to help your child to sleep through on Christmas Eve
You maybe reading this and thinking ‘But not sleeping through is part of the magic of Father Christmas or Santa visiting’. I say “Is that true”? The question arises, does sleeping through the night actually make Christmas less magical? Or take anything away from your child’s Christmas?
How to help your child to sleep away from home at Christmas
Here are my top tips on how to help your baby or toddler to sleep whilst you are away from home. December is probably your busiest time of year, yet the most exhausting. Especially when you are sleep deprived. You may be staying away from home this festive period, which leaves you questioning how will your sleep thief sleep?
What time do I put my child or children to bed when the clocks go back?
There is much confusion around when to put your child to bed the night before the clocks go back. Discover key tips on how to avoid earlier rising, extra night wake ups and overtiredness.
How to play with your toddler when you are tired and exhausted
5 simple activities for when your eye lids feel heavy, your brain feels foggy and it just feels too much effort to play!
How to help your baby or toddler to nap at nursery
Whether your child is just starting at a childcare setting or is returning after the holidays, you may be worrying about how they will cope without you there and how they will nap in a different environment. Here are my 4 tips on how to avoid disrupting your child’s sleep when they start at nursery or a childminder’s.
4 Ways to help your baby or toddler to nap in their cot
Are you nap trapped? Here’s my first 4 steps on how to move from contact naps to napping in the cot or crib.
5 Ways to improve your child’s sleep before you return to work
Dreading going back to work with sleep deprivation? Here’s my 5 key tips on how to help your child to sleep through the night by the time you return to work.
How to gently stop feeding your baby or child to sleep
Find out my key gentle tips on how to remove feeding to sleep for your baby, toddler or older child.
Why won't my baby or toddler go to sleep?
Why won’t my child go to sleep at bedtime? This is question that I get asked regularly by my clients. If you are finding that your baby, toddler or older child is refusing to go to sleep at bedtime then there are simple quick wins that you may wish to try.
Can improving your sleep protect against Covid19?
What if I told you that your sleep can protect you from viruses, infection and illness? There is a scientific reason why you are more susceptible to becoming unwell when you are sleep deprived.