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Getting Sleep Back on Track After Travel or Illness

(Updated and revised from an earlier version.) If you follow our blogs, then you probably know that we support the idea that you just do what works (as long as it’s safe) to help your baby sleep during travel or illness. Although slipping into survival mode is usually the right thing to do in these situations, deviating from your baby’s good sleep habits will often lead to new sleep associations. The Science If you taught your baby how to fall asleep at one point and he or she was sleeping great, but then you traveled and ended up rocking/nursing to sleep in order to avoid having him/her wake up others, then your baby may have re-developed a sleep association. As a reminder, a sleep associat

What to Expect When You’re... Home from the Hospital

Expectant parents are often inundated with advice—solicited or otherwise—about what life with a new baby will be like, and sleep is no exception. “Sleep when the baby sleeps,” “newborns sleep all day,” and “you’ll never get a good night’s sleep again” are just a few of the things you might hear. And yet very little of this advice actually helps you understand your new baby’s sleep habits or recognize how much of it is “normal” (or not). New parents have a lot of things on their minds as it is, and stressing about sleep doesn’t have to be one of them. That’s why we’re offering this FREE webinar on Coming Home from the Hospital: The First Weeks as a crash course in everything you need to know

Travel Survival Guide: Sleeping in an Unfamiliar Environment

(Updated and revised from an earlier version.) Going away for the holidays? Going to be sleeping in a living room on an air mattress one foot away from your baby? Siblings or cousins sharing a bed? Sharing a hotel room? No separate room or bed for your baby to sleep in? Have relatives with very different parenting styles from yours? Or maybe you’re just terrified that your once-great sleeper will regress during your travels. No worries! Baby Sleep Science is here to help. The Science We are supposed to wake up when we fall asleep in the “wrong” place. Sleep is organized so that there is a bout of deep sleep at the beginning of the night and then every hour to hour-and-a-half thereafter, ther

The Importance of Good (Sleep) Hygiene

It's probably safe to say that all new parents know their babies need to be fed, changed and bathed regularly in order to stay happy and healthy. But relatively few of us enter parenthood knowing how important sleep—specifically good sleep hygiene—is for our baby’s well-being. But at Baby Sleep Science, this is one of our favorite topics! Understanding and consistently practicing good sleep habits is the basis for improving (or maintaining) your baby’s or toddler’s sleep. That’s why we’re offering a FREE webinar on Optimal Sleep Hygiene to get you started or offer a refresher. Click image to play webinar. What is good sleep hygiene? In this brief video, Eliza Van Reen, PhD, of Brown Universi

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