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Episode 83: Does darkness help sleep?
You’ve probably heard some advice suggesting that babies and toddlers must sleep in a dark room…. and then moments later heard the exact opposite – that all babies need to learn how to sleep in a brightly lit, noisy...
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Episode 82: Your Pep Talk
When your baby or toddler isn’t sleeping well and you’re filled with dread at the thought of facing another broken night, it can feel like you are so deep down in the trenches that you might never climb out 😥
When...
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Episode 81: Toddler Sleep During Big Life Changes
In this episode of Brand New Little People, Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) discuss how you can help your toddler adjust to big life changes, with a specific focus on protecting their sleep.
Do...
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Episode 80: The Perfect Nap
In our sleep clinic it’s common to hear parents say they’re worried about their baby or toddler’s naps. And we completely understand why. Everyone has a different opinion on how long naps should be and it gets tangled...
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Episode 79: Sleep & Attachment
Some parents believe bed sharing and holding their child for their naps, will create more secure attachment than if their child sleeps in a cot or bed. But actually, where your child sleeps has very little bearing on...
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Episode 78: How to stop bed sharing
Parents often tell us that there was one particularly tricky night when their baby or toddler just wouldn’t fall back asleep, and they finally caved, bringing their child in to their bed, in the hopes of getting more...
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Episode 77: From 8-10 night wakes to ZERO!
Cassie had an 8 month old who was waking multiple times each night. When she sought help from a friend she was told that bed sharing would be the best way to maximise her sleep and her baby’s sleep too. But instead of...
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Episode 76: Baby & Toddler Sleep During the Festive Season
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or if you just enjoy a nice break from paid work over the New Year period, you might have questions about how to manage your baby or toddler’s sleep. With family gatherings,...
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Episode 75: Your Guide to Tired Signs
Your baby is happily playing but then lets out a yawn. What do you do? Do you drop everything and sprint for the nursery, keen to settle them for sleep before they become overtired? Or do you wait longer to see if a...
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Episode 74: Red Flags: Sleep Advice
The amount of conflicting information circulating about baby and toddler sleep, is wildly out of control 😵💫
When you’re sleep deprived and searching for a solution, it’s easy to fall down the rabbit hole of...
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Episode 73: Parent sleep
Your baby or toddler wakes in the night and you drag yourself out of bed, exhausted, but by the time you’ve got them back to sleep and you finally climb back in to your bed…you’re wide awake. In the middle of the...
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Episode 72: Sleep & settling can be hard to change
New parents are told to expect their sleep to change forever—but nothing truly prepares you for the reality of caring for a precious new life on such fragmented sleep. After the blur of the early weeks and months,...
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