Our #CloudbCares Q&A series offers expert recommendations, as well as advice from our community of moms to help solve your real
family sleep issues — typically, issues most parents have to navigate.
Our Q&A series offers «real» mom advice and expert recommendations to help solve
your family sleep issues — typically, issues most parents have to navigate.
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Offering a wide variety of services, Sleepy Planet helps parents of babies, toddlers, and young children with behavioral
sleep problems through private consultations, and provides parent education, psychotherapy, and professional presentations on a wide variety of topics, including the transition to parenthood, child development and behavior, sibling rivalry, marital
issues, and how to balance work and
family.
Sleep is a huge
issue for new
families.
Combine this with other risk factors for bullying, such as
family issues, and it becomes clear why
sleep is an
issue for bullies.
We specialize in infant
sleep and toddler
sleep; no matter the child
sleep issue, Strong Little Sleepers is here to help
families in Austin, Texas and beyond get the
sleep they deserve.
One of my four children experienced allergy and reflux
issues that caused
sleep deprivation and without nearby
family I was unsupported in an exhausting situation.
Addressing the big picture of
family life — including
sleep, feeding, child development, sibling
issues, marriage and refining individual parenting philosophy and style — Sleepy Planet helps parents create a balanced, fulfilling
family experience.
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Sleep Issue 1: Nap Deprivation Your
family complains your child is always napping during
family events.
I spent over a year as a moderator helping hundreds of
families with
sleep issues, scheduling difficulties and night feeding dilemmas.
I would often turn to it when a friend had a
sleeping issue with their babies too and have been developing and expanding my approach ever since, adding to and updating my little box all the time as I meet and help more and more
families.
Frustrated Siblings: A child with
sleep issues is often not quiet or reserved in letting
family members know he has trouble
sleeping.
This is where the idea was born to write a quick reference guide about
sleep training which has helped hundreds of
families so far with their
sleep issues.
So, a child's
sleep issues can quickly become a
family problem.
Families who have had their twins and need help with figuring out the fine - tuning of parenting newborns (
sleep schedules, feeding
issues, interacting with the twins).
Having a couple
issues preventing peaceful
sleep may not render your
family's situation that unusual.
We can work together to look ahead and assist you in laying a healthy foundation for future
sleep, or if you are struggling with
sleep issues in a baby or older child, we will discuss your
family's needs, review your history and create an individualized plan and strategy to encourage independent
sleep in your baby.
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Sleep issues can be so tricky — best of luck for your whole
family to get some good zzzz's!
Whatever your
family chooses for
sleeping arrangements is a personal choice, but it tends to be a hot - button
issue.
Thank you for delineating all the facts about
sleep and placing this important
issue at center stage in the life of the
family, because it definitely affects everyone!
When my daughter wouldn't
sleep through the night, I wondered: Was this a medical
issue, or a psychological problem she'd inherited from my
family?
When I see
families struggling with
sleep schedules, feeding schedules, breastfeeding troubles, discipline
issues, daycare, and so on, I see how hard parenting today can be.
I also help
families with who are experiencing
sleep issues with special needs children.
In my work with new parents, I meet many
families who are at their wits - end about
sleep issues.
Some safety
issues are known, so certainly they should be followed as I have outlined in answering many of these questions But what any infants
sleep location socially or psychologically means to parents is very powerful and it affects the overall safety and satisfaction that different
families have to the same
sleeping arrangement and environment.
I believe that I can help every
family with
sleep, no matter the
issue, but it's important that before you start the
sleep coaching process, you follow a few simple steps:
I see postpartum depression (PPD) a lot in the
families who come to me with
sleep issues.
Supporting attachment parenting
families with
sleep issues, encouraging approaches that suit the
family and respect the mother - child bond.
As I wrap up on the spring
issue of The Attached
Family magazine (available later this spring to subscribers), a thought has popped into my head that I wanted to share with everyone and it goes along with the age - old saying, «This too shall pass»: Learning to
sleep, to your child, is much like learning to eat solids or learning to use the potty.
Just as with most parenting
issues, finding the right
sleep arrangement for your baby and your
family can be a bit of trial and error.
An article in the Spring 1997
issue of «The Community Perspective,» a newsletter published by Growing
Families International (GFI), claims, «
Sleeping with your infant, as recommended by controversial attachment parenting advocates, can often result in infant suffocation...» (emphasis added).
Eventually, these
families found their way to me exhausted and very frustrated that their child was still having
sleep issues.
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I've waded through my own parenting challenges -
sleep issues, recurring diaper rashes, the search for the most developmentally helpful baby gear available, minimal screen time, toddler defiance and aggression, a
family philosophy of discipline, established routines,
family adjustments to a new baby and then another... I share many of the struggles that parents reach out to me for help with.
For many moms, juggling
family commitments, work, and everything else can quickly lead to a number of
issues that can prevent them from
sleeping well, no matter how tired they are when their head hits the pillow at night.
They observed that when given specific knowledge and great empathy, most
families had the ability to solve their child's
sleep issues, and as they helped more and more
families, they came to appreciate the large number of
families who struggled with their children's
sleep yet didn't know where to go for support and help.
As a
family sleep consultant, one of the most common
issues I see is a child who has been transitioned to a big - kid bed too early, and is now having a lot of trouble getting to
sleep and / or staying asleep.
We often address «non-
sleep»
issues with
families before working on
sleep.
As a clinical social worker in private practice for 18 years I have been counseling
families on a wide variety of parenting
issues from dealing with tantrums, discipline, bottle weaning to of course,
sleep.
It's guaranteed that most other
families have dealt with this
issue before, and one particular frustrated
family out of Texas designed the Baby Shusher to save your voice and get your baby to
sleep.
I witnessed some of my friends as they battled with their baby's
sleep issues and I saw how lack of
sleep impacted the whole
family unit and created disharmony and in some instances, disease.
Sleep issues are stressful, so find and take advantage of your support people and online resources and any friends,
family members, and fellow moms that have experience crying it out.
Co-sleeping (also known as the
family bed) is a hotly debated
issue that may straddle the line between healthy and unhealthy
sleep habits and associations.
A recent study showed that in many parts of the country less than one in ten kids even get «behavior therapy» in addition to medication «Symptoms» of inattention and hyperactivity represent a communication of a range of
issues, including
sleep deprivation, marital conflict, sensory processing concerns and multiple other possible
family stressors, The post does not say not that medication may not have a role to play at some point in a child's life.
One of the key
issues that can come from co
sleeping is strain on
family relationships.
Some
families may decide that the risks and
issues associated with toddler co
sleeping far outweigh any benefits, and if this is what you and your
family decide, that's okay.
A true CIO is never suggested, but a «controlled crying» or «camping out» method may be suggested — but only if the following criteria are met: baby is over 5 months of age, the
family has tried everything else, and doctor has approved (i.e. there are no medical
issues that may be impacting
sleep).
Whether you are dealing with
sleep issues, struggling to find your footing as a mother, or trying to find balance between work and home, I develop a collaborative plan with you that considers your
family's values, your baby's temperament and your
family's well - being.
After I had my son and joined the mommy community, I was suddenly confronted with how enormous an
issue baby
sleep was for many
families and how lack of
sleep caused disharmony and sometimes illness for them.