The Sleep Mums

Listener Questions: Comforters

Comforters are an essential part of a sleep routine. We all have things we do before sleep that set us on the path to the land of nod, we know some of them are useful and some of them are not so much. In this episode we'll explore what a comforter is…

False Starts

It’s bedtime, everyone’s calm and settled and suddenly 40 minutes later your baby is fast, fast AWAKE!  In this podcast we’ll help you get to the bottom of this ready steady wake routine.  We’ll cover: 1 - What is a False Start?2 - Why do they happen…

Hourly Waking

It’s the middle of the night, you’ve just got back to sleep and suddenly you hear a whimper, then it turns into a cry. You have just got your baby to sleep, they can’t possibly be up…  The loop of exhaustion, frustration and disappointment that can c…

Morning Routines

People talk about baby and children’s bedtime routines but what about a morning routine? At it’s simplest, a morning routine is a few steps that you take you from nighttime to daytime. But it’s not just a process, having a positive morning routine ca…

Contact Naps

Contact napping is where a baby, toddler or child spends their nap with all or part of their body in contact with their parent or caregiver. It’s lovely, its necessary, it’s part of parenthood but it can also be intense and tiring too. In this podcas…

Growth Spurts

  Growth Spurts are an essentially exhausting part of childhood. There’s no set in stone way how to predict how and when your baby will grow. Sometimes a growth spurt hits overnight and a sleepsuit that fitted the day before suddenly wont snap (somet…

Toddler Sleep Tool Kit

Sleep is a big topic in the baby days and then you hit the toddler years and it feels like it all goes quiet. However, as your baby has grown into a wild and wonderfully wilful toddler they have become more keyed into the world, so things like change…

Bedtime Boundaries [for Parents]

Boundaries are such an important tool to help our children feel secure in their surroundings and with other people, but they’re also really important for us as parents.  If we want to show our children the importance of them, we need to model them ou…

Baby Sleep Tool Kit

‘They don’t come with a manual’. If you're a parent it’s likely you’ve heard this more than once. The reason they don't is because there is no one right way. So, in place of a manual we have created a Baby Sleep Tool Kit. We are your biggest sleep s…

New Year, New Routine

Sleep is generally not something associated with New Year - it’s all about counting down the minutes to staying up late.  But once the holiday hangover, be that from too much mulled wine, mother in laws or mince pies, subsides everyone is all about m…