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5 tips to wean your toddler from nursing at night
April 21, 2021 Tessa Marks Comment

To wean your toddler from breastfeeding is alike yet different from weaning a baby. Let’s have a look at these 5 toddler-specific ways you can lovingly and efficiently help your toddler make this transition. Breastfeeding at night until toddlerhood is an amazing experience, one that can make the bond between

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Your Baby Sleeping Through the Night and Intuitive Parenting: When the Mainstream Formula Doesn’t Work
March 30, 2021 Steph Sanders 2 Comments

“It is when a mother trusts her judgment that she is at her best.”– Donald Winnicott (I would add that when parents and caregivers trust their judgment, the family unit is at its best.) I didn’t give much thought to baby sleep before having my daughter. I couldn’t have imagined

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Don’t want to let your baby cry it out? A dad’s journey
February 14, 2021 Tessa Marks Comment

Note by Heidi: Please welcome Tessa Marks to Baby Sleep Advice! ❤️ Tessa is training with me and getting ready to join me in helping you and your babies sleep better, without tears. In her first post here, we get a unique view, through her husband’s eyes, of their baby sleep

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Sleepless nights with baby? How to find little bursts of energy to keep you going!
February 2, 2021 celia 2 Comments

Celia and daughter smiling

Note by Heidi: ❤️ Please welcome Celia Ponzo, who’s training with me and joining me here to help you and your babies sleep better, without tears. This is her very personal and very sweet story … My mother always used to tell me that I was such a heavy sleeper

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At The End Of Your Rope? (5 Actionable Baby Sleep Steps You Can Do Today)
November 11, 2020 Steph Sanders 1 Comment

When you’re in the throes of your baby not sleeping, which means YOU are not sleeping, it can feel like this reality may last forever. I’ve been there. Your baby woke up more times than you can count last night and you feel exhausted and at the same time frustrated,

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Jenny’s story: lovingly tackling catnapping and frequent night waking
March 23, 2020 Heidi Holvoet 2 Comments

Jenny with her two kiddies

I’m thrilled this week to welcome Jenny, sweet mom of 2 as she tells us a little bit about their sleep story. Catnapping and frequent night waking were the main struggles, but she’s rocking it! Hard times, happy times and everything in between … and always full of the warmest

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Cry it out: the real reason for avoiding it when helping your baby sleep
January 11, 2020 Heidi Holvoet 6 Comments

Never to cry it out baby with arm to the side

Cry it out as a baby sleep method isn’t great for your baby. It can negatively affect parent-baby bonding, destroy trust, hamper healthy sleep development and cause brain damage due to toxic stress. To top it off, for many families, results from any form of crying it out are short-term

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Traveling With Your Baby? Do this to keep sleeping well!
December 19, 2019 Heidi Holvoet 3 Comments

Traveling with Baby in Suitcase

Proudly presenting … my tried-and-tested strategies for traveling with your baby AND keep sleeping well along the way. They’ll also help you keep up with the sleep work – nap schedule, self-soothing practice, sleeping through the night etc. – you started back home. So, I know traveling may seem pretty

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Tricking with Kindness: How to use reverse psychology with your baby or toddler without doing any harm
December 6, 2019 Heidi Holvoet 9 Comments

Mom holding happy baby in nature

Reverse psychology – used with complete compassion and kindness – can be one of the most powerful and kind tools to help babies and toddlers thrive. I use it a lot and with great success to help solve baby sleep problems but you can use it for good in other

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  • 5 tips to wean your toddler from nursing at night
  • Your Baby Sleeping Through the Night and Intuitive Parenting: When the Mainstream Formula Doesn’t Work
  • Don’t want to let your baby cry it out? A dad’s journey
  • Sleepless nights with baby? How to find little bursts of energy to keep you going!
  • At The End Of Your Rope? (5 Actionable Baby Sleep Steps You Can Do Today)

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