infant sleep

No Cry It Out: 3 Years Later

July 5, 2011




Three years ago today, I wrote what has become the most viewed and the most popular post on this blog. I wrote the post, Cry it Out (CIO): 10 Reasons Why it is Not for Us, after years as a message board moderator where we would post lists and lists of links over and over [...]

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Emotional Availability and Infant Sleep

August 17, 2010




Over the past few days, several people notified me about a Globe and Mail article called Coddle or let the kid cry? New research awakens the sleep-training debate with a header that read: “While many moms and dads reluctantly allow their infant to ‘cry it out,’ some experts now say the practice can cause real [...]

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Would you satisfy my curiosity? Transition from crib to big kid bed

November 24, 2009




In light of the massive crib recall, there were a lot of concerned parents on twitter today wondering where their baby should sleep while they wait who knows how long for the repair kit to make their crib safe again. As a non-crib user, I threw out a few suggestions to people (not intended as [...]

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Sex and Sleep

June 26, 2009




Photo credit: “At the end of a very long day” by KitLKat on flickr There was some banter the other day on twitter comparing sleep with sex. I’m not sure if it originated with or ended with Ann Douglas, but the conversation at some point came around to the intro to her book  Sleep Solutions [...]

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Behavioural Targeting Fail

March 24, 2009




I was checking out my stats on eWebCounter just a moment ago and could not believe the three ads I was staring at in the Google Ads bar on the left side. If you know me at all, you’ll know that this was a total behavioural targeting fail. Not a chance. Nope. No Thanks.

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Gentle Baby and Toddler Sleep Tips

February 28, 2009




This post provides tips for sleep deprived parents that want their babies to sleep better and, like me, do not want to use the cry it out approach. Some of these things I have learned through experience and others I’ve learned through reading research. I should note that I have not necessarily tried all of [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Conversations About Crying It Out

February 25, 2009




Comics Courtesy of Heather Cushman-Dowdee @ MAMA-IS.COM

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Sleep Associations: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

February 1, 2009




Sleep associations can have a big impact on the ability of babies, children and adults to drift off to sleep. When a baby first comes into the world, he is usually able to sleep just about anywhere but doesn’t sleep for long stretches. Over time, your baby’s ability to sleep anywhere will change and sleep [...]

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Another academic weighs in on CIO

January 15, 2009




A few weeks ago Macall Gordon dropped by my blog and left a comment on my post about why we don’t use the cry it out method to get our children to go to sleep. Since then, I’ve been reading a lot of her work and found that it supports my assertion that there is [...]

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Desperate times, desperate searches

October 24, 2008




Around the world there are parents wishing their babies would sleep better. Some so exhausted, so frustrated, so at the end of their rope that they go searching on the Internet desperately trying to find the magic bullet that will make their baby sleep through the night. In certain Western societies it has somehow become [...]

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