How to handle daylight savings time in relation to your little one’s sleep.

Why ‘drowsy but awake’ doesn’t work

So no matter what might have happened over the summer, all is forgiven. The mission now is to get your child back on track so that they can get back to sleep at a reasonable hour the day before they head back to school. Let’s see how.

As a sleep consultant, the topic I get asked about the most is the 4 month regression. Parents can find it incredibly tough as baby starts to have more night wakes and do shorter naps. Many of us just think of sleep as an on-or-off situation. You’re either asleep or you’re not. But sleep actually has a number of different stages, and they make up the “sleep cycle,” which we go through several times a night. So in order to understand what’s happening to your baby during this stage, first you need to know a few things about sleep in general.

Your kids are on your mind 24/7, no matter what else might be going on, so we tend to do a lot of research, and with access to unlimited data via the internet, books and magazines it is inevitable that we get some conflicting information. Although when it comes to kids, I think the discussion even eclipses politics for the sheer divisiveness and claiming opinion as fact. So in this blog post I want to focus on my area of expertise, that being sleep, and try to dispel some of the more popular myths I’ve seen in parenting forums, heard from Mama groups I’ve been to or just general chat I have overheard.