Sleep Training Tips

  • Resources & Articles We Love

    Resources & Articles We Love

    The Healing Power of Sleep: This is such an important video with a message that is close to my heart, as it speaks volumes about the power of sleep. I always ask every client if their child is a mouth breather. If your child snores or is a mouth breather, I recommend that you…

  • Safe Sleeping Guidelines

    Safe Sleeping Guidelines

    Place babies on their backs to sleep, both at nighttime and at nap-time: Research shows that this is the only recommended position for sleep, and it is known to reduce the risk of SIDS. Room sharing is recommended for infants for the first 4-6 months of life. This means the parent and child share…

  • Daylight Savings Time – Tips On How to Handle Your Child’s Sleep

    Daylight Savings Time – Tips On How to Handle Your Child’s Sleep

    Daylight Savings Time is fast approaching and if you have young children you may be worried about what will happen to their perfect (or not so perfect) sleep schedule. March 14th, 2021 is when we set our clocks forward. It’s bad enough that we lose an hour of sleep, and to make matters worse… it…

  • Time Changes – Tips for Handling Your Child’s Sleep

    Time Changes – Tips for Handling Your Child’s Sleep

    The time change is coming! If you have a baby or young children, the celebration of that extra hour to sleep in is a distant memory. Daylight savings time will be upon us on Sunday November 1, 2020, and it has a whole new meaning when we have little ones getting up that whole…

  • How Do I Get Through The Holidays Without Messing Up My Baby’s Sleep Schedule?

    How Do I Get Through The Holidays Without Messing Up My Baby’s Sleep Schedule?

    How to maintain a healthy sleep schedule during the holidays. T’is the season ! Holiday season is here and along with it comes family visits, parties and schedules thrown out the window! You have worked so hard to establish good and healthy sleep habits for your child. You have committed to a great schedule and have…

  • Please Stop Calling It a “4 Month Sleep REGRESSION”

    Please Stop Calling It a “4 Month Sleep REGRESSION”

    Your newborn baby was sleeping like a champ, or maybe he wasn’t. It used to be easy to get your newborn to sleep by bouncing on that yoga ball, but now the second you put her down she wakes and starts to cry again… so you head to Google and you see countless reports…

  • Parenting 101 – Get a Month of Sleep with Tracy – Nightmares vs. Night Terrors

    Parenting 101 – Get a Month of Sleep with Tracy – Nightmares vs. Night Terrors

    You finally got your child to sleep… ahh time to kick back and relax, ok let’s be real, more like time to do the dishes, tidy up the toys and maybe if you are lucky watch some TV or do some work. After a few hours you hear a blood curdling scream coming from…

  • Traveling With Your Child – Tips on Handling Jet Lag

    Traveling With Your Child – Tips on Handling Jet Lag

    As adults, most of us have experienced jet lag and the effect it has on our sleep and wakefulness. Jet Lag is a condition that results in a disturbance or imbalance in our body’s natural “biological clock” which is caused by traveling to different time zones. Our bodies operate on a 24- hour cycle…

  • How Much Sleep Does My Child Need?

    How Much Sleep Does My Child Need?

    How much sleep does my baby need? As new parents, we have so much to start thinking about and of course worrying about. Is my baby growing well? Are they eating enough? and the ever so popular.. Are they getting enough sleep? Babies and children require sleep. Lots of it. It is not a…

  • Bedtime Battles – Have You Created a Gambler?

    Bedtime Battles – Have You Created a Gambler?

    con·sist·en·cy kənˈsistənsē/ noun conformity in the application of something, typically that which is necessary for the sake of logic, accuracy, or fairness. We hear it all the time… be consistent! When we talk about behaviour and our children, to teach a new or desired behaviour, consistency is one of the key components to achieving…