To monitor the sleep patterns of your child, you can use the following (free!) sleep chart template, which we have adapted from a study by ...
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Frequent night wakings between 6 and 12 months (part 3): The measured efficacy of sleep training methods
Here comes the part that every severely sleep-deprived parent is waiting for: What can parents do to reduce the number of night wakings of a ...
Frequent night wakings between 6 and 12 months (part 2): How often do babies typically wake up at night?
With seven to twelve wakings per night, my daughter was far, far above the average for a baby of six months. There are differences across ...
Frequent night wakings between 6 and 12 months (part 1): From the edge of maternal depression to recovered sanity with Pubmed
When our daughter was 6 months old, my husband stopped our family from falling apart. Alarmed by our level of sleep deprivation and by my ...
To spank or not to spank: The reality
Last week, I found myself sleep-deprived, struggling with my 2-year-old son to change his diaper and getting repeatedly kicked in the chest in the process. ...
Jigsaw puzzles: Will research crush my dream of Christmas family time?
When my husband asked me what I wished for Christmas this year, he was surprised to learn that I wanted a jigsaw puzzle. After all, ...