I just want to take a few minutes to remind you that when someone says, “I did the same thing with all of my babies, and they’re all great independent sleepers,” there is probably more to it than that. Maybe they put every baby down drowsy but awake, followed the same bedtime routine from birth, […]
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I am always searching for the best deals, and let me tell you something you may not know: Not every Amazon Prime “deal” is actually a deal! If you check the price history, you will see that many products listed as being a deal are actually just their typical price. Their “normal” price will be
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I am always on the hunt for affordable, budget friendly 100% cotton clothes for my children. Oftentimes, natural fiber clothing is incredibly expensive, and I really don’t want to spend more than $20 for one article of clothing that my kids will grow out of in a few months. In this post, I’m sharing some
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One really cool thing about my job is that I sometimes get to try new technologies and therapies before many other people even know about them. So when a company reached out to me and asked me to try their therapy for congestion, I was incredibly skeptical, but of course, I gave it a try!
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Last week, I noticed a very large account run by occupational therapists making some pretty wild claims about tongue ties and frenectomies. They called frenectomies “barbaric”, stated that anyone trained in neuroscience would never recommend this procedure (which is simply not true), and tagged me in the post telling me that cutting a baby’s tongue
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One thing that I think would totally change parents’ perception of their child’s sleep and help them more deeply understand it is a concept called “sleep totals” or “sleep needs”. Basically, how much sleep does your child actually need in a 24 hour period? Because that number is going to be different for every single
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Have you ever walked through the kids’ shoe department in a store and wondered why most of the shoes have heels, or are super stiff? Maybe not, but you should think about it! Why are we essentially putting children in foot casts? Most conventional shoes limit the range of motion of our children’s feet and
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I’ve learned this the hard way after almost nine years of parenting, three kids in, and somehow I still catch myself doing the same thing. My toddler falls, or they’re having a hard time, or they’re just overwhelmed and asking to be held again, and my first thought isn’t always to just pick them up
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Emily Oster recently published an article called “Why Is Everyone Afraid of Sleep Training?” The intention of the piece is pretty clear: to reassure parents that sleep training is supported by evidence, and that concerns about harm are largely unfounded and generally “fear mongering”. While some of her points are technically accurate, the way the evidence is
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If your baby or young child truly does not sleep, not just waking a couple of times, not just has an off night here and there, but genuinely struggles to get restorative sleep, you are probably overwhelmed with advice and still desperately exhausted. You have likely been told that sleep training is the answer, or
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If you need a little bit more support than an hourly consult, this is the package for you. Ideal for any age and includes the following: