Weaning baby off a pacifier or dummy – how to bin them and not look back!
We have just finished weaning my youngest, J, off his dummy (pacifier to our friends in North America). It wasn’t easy, but it was the right time for us. Both my kids used
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Toddlers’ sleeping problems – tips and tricks for getting your toddler to sleep better and longer!
I’ve previously written about the difficulties we had with my daughter L’s sleep and the steps we took to break the sleep associations that didn’t work for us. L is now 3 years
The 4 month old sleep regression – what it is and how to survive it!
I recently found my diary from when my eldest, L, was a baby. I don’t remember her having a 4 month sleep regression (she wasn’t a great sleeper anyway) but when I read back,
I’m not ‘fine’ – the tired mummy
Today I picked my eldest daughter, L, up from nursery and one of the staff asked me how I am. I said ‘fine, thanks’. My husband, G, phoned at lunch time to ask if
How to Teach a Baby to Self-Soothe: Older babies
Many of the principles discussed in my blog on tiny babies still apply in older babies. However, usually the issue with older babies and toddlers is that they’ve already created sleep associations that aren’t
When it all goes wrong: the overtired baby won’t sleep
This was not the blog I intended to write tonight. Things have been going well – 3 year old L is in a good routine, she has fun at nursery in the mornings and
How to Teach a Baby to Self-soothe: Tiny Babies
First and foremost – you don’t need to teach your baby to self-soothe. However your baby falls asleep – whilst feeding, being rocked, with lullabies, with heavy rock metal, with a dummy (pacifier), on
My Hummy Review: Why I Wasn’t a Fan but now Can’t Do Without It!
MyHummy is a small company that you may have seen advertised on Facebook. They create infant sleep aids. When J was born my brothers and sisters-in-law bought us a ‘hummy’ – to be specific
Infant Sleep Aids: the Good, the Bad and the Frustrating
If you’ve read my earlier post then you’ll know that in the early months we had real problems with my daughter L’s sleep. In comparison, my son J is a great sleeper (he was
How to Get a Baby to Sleep Through the Night: the Holy Grail of Parenting
Pretty much as soon as my eldest, L, was born and we were home from the hospital, the questions started: ‘is she a good baby? How’s she sleeping? Are you getting any sleep yet?’
