Some children will wean relatively quickly, others may need a longer, slower period to adjustment. As always, listen and respond to your individual child, and go gently.

It’s frustrating when your toddler won’t/can’t sleep. Here are some of the major reasons why toddlers struggle with sleep, and ideas of how to help them.

Struggling to sleep even though your baby now sleeps?

Some babies are easier than others.

Being a parent can be so hard and mix into that changing hormones, sleep deprivation and even grief for life before being someone’s mum or dad, mental health can be something that needs some attention.

My child only seems to have cat naps and short stretches of sleep through the night. I’m worried that they aren’t getting as much sleep as is recommended, and that this will impact their healthy growth and development. How much sleep is “enough”?

“I thought sleep was supposed to be better by now?!” Unfortunately, infant and toddler sleep isn’t linear.

In a Western culture, where independent sleep is prized, many parents worry that bedsharing past a certain age must be weird, or problematic.

The nights are long, and sometimes even the strongest of us feel the pull of those sleep trainer’s empty promises.

It’s really easy to get despondent when your nearly one year old still isn’t sleeping. Surely it should be better by now? shouldn’t it? Maybe not.

Here a few resources that could help you rule out (or determine) what those issues may be. We always recommend talking to a medical professional if you suspect any issues.

There’s so much going on for baby in terms of physical and cognitive development, plus teeth, and sleep is often on the backburner.

If you’re being pressured to “teach” your baby to “self-soothe” so you don’t miss your window of opportunity, read on.

Living on coffee due to early morning wakeups?

Night weaning does not mean an end to night waking and should therefore not be something parents feel they ‘need’ to do to get their child sleeping ‘better’. It’s certainly not something you need to do simply because a health professional tells you too.

If you can’t or just don’t want to bed share, there are still ways you can meet your baby’s needs responsively without losing untold hours of sleep.

There is a common cultural idea/social construction that in order to prepare baby for a separation (starting daycare, getting ready for a new sibling, etc.) we need to first induce separation. In fact the opposite is true. The more that a child’s connection cup is full before a change or separation, the more secure they’ll feel, and the easier it will be

There’s plenty you can do to make the transition to day care easier on everyone, no “habit” breaking necessary. In fact we encourage you to keep feeding to sleep as a tool in your toolbox, it will make nighttime during this transition period so much easier.

There is a huge amount of growth and development that happens around four months, which understandably affects many many babies sleep.