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What To Do About Sleep When A Cold Strikes
Grab your tissues and nasal aspirators! It’s the most sniffly time of the year. Like most parents, the thought of cold season probably strikes fear in your heart. For good reason. Infants can get seven colds in their first year...
Unusual Ways to Get Babies to Sleep
When your baby’s bedtime routine isn’t working — that is, when they’re keeping up the neighborhood, or at least mom, dad, siblings and the family pet — it can help to have a backup plan. You aren’t the first parent...
The Importance of Light and Dark
If there’s one thing that posting photos to social media has taught us it’s that lighting is everything (what on earth did we do before filters?). It’s the same thing with your baby’s sleep. Lighting plays a huge role in...
Ask a Sleep Expert: Why Did My Baby Stop Sleeping Through the Night?
In our new series “Ask a Sleep Expert,” we pose a question from a reader to pediatric sleep consultant Ingrid Prueher, founder of BabySleepWhisperer.com, and get her expert insight and advice. “My baby was sleeping through the night. Then all...
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5 Totally Genius Dad Sleep Hacks
Dads aren’t just the innovators behind tree houses, pillow forts and, um, “unique” hair-braiding creations. They’re also pretty genius when it comes to getting their little ones to fall asleep (case in point, two of Nanit’s founders are dads!). Here...
The Secret to Raising an Independent Sleeper
The term independent is often used to describe things like countries, and college students (well, sometimes), but babies are rarely thrown into that mix, being best known for their tendency to need almost everything done for them. But, what if...
Is Your Baby Getting Enough Sleep?
You’d do anything for your baby when it comes to sleep. Pull an all-nighter when a cold strikes, navigate your way to the crib in total darkness, dress in matching pastel footed pajamas (okay, that one might be just for...
Newborn Sleep Myths: Fact vs Fiction
Nowadays, doesn’t it seem like everyone has something to say about babies and sleep? From your boss’s third cousin’s Swedish nanny to that really cool dad at the park who’s never known the horror of a 2 a.m. wake-up call....
How Much Sleep Do Babies Really Need?
It’s a question that can keep you up at night, even rudely interrupt your favorite dream about baby’s soul-stirring Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech – what exactly is the right amount of sleep for baby? Every child is different, so...