Sleep Cues: The Everything Parenting Podcast

Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight topics coming in from 3 months to the 1 year mark:  - Taking longer to get down for sleep and waking more frequently than they used to! - Rolling onto their tummy at night and waking themselves up - Room environment for naps - Starting daycare when they only offer 1 nap - Dream feeds Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultan...

Today we welcome Pierre Azzam, Psychiatrist and Founder of @Braver. Man — with an important mission: to help men build the self-awareness, confidence, and resolve to face life’s challenges head-on. We are talking about Postpartum Depression in men - what it is, the risk factors, the signs and the stigma. VISIT @braver.man FOLLOW bravermancoaching.com Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant Insta...

  Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:   -  Connecting sleep cycles in the day for longer naps - Nap strike or drop the nap - Bedtime tantrums and stalling - Shorter naps - Up at 5:45am  Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant Instagram @thehappysleepcompany Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Today's episode is all about naps because being a sleep consultant comes a lot of questions about naps - as you would assume! The transition of having a nap to not having a nap at all is a BIG transition so let's talk about it!  Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant Instagram @thehappysleepcompany Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! A lot of today's questions can be answered with, "If it's not broke, don't fix it" but I promise I do give you more! This week's questions highlight:   - 20 month old on two naps - Introducing a comfort object - Transitioning to a bed - Colic baby and napping - The pacifier Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant Instagram @theh...

Today's episode we have Michelle Tangeman — licensed therapist, board-certified behavior analyst and the creator of Thriving Toddler. She is also a mom of two, who's mission is to give parents evidence-based parenting tools that work, supporting a strong, healthy relationship between kids and parents. In this episode we talk strategies for prepping your big kid for a new sibling AND how...

 Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:  - 6 month old sample schedule - Scheduling and wake windows - Sample 2-nap schedule - Tips on what to do when baby falls asleep in the car before we get home for nap time - Tips to avoid nursing to sleep for naps Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant Instagram @thehappysleepcompany Website www.thehappysleepcompany.co...

There are a few of main things we focus on with families when they come to us for 1-on-1 support with sleep coaching. They are the things that set up a great foundation for amazing sleep for your infant, toddler and even pre-schooler... these things are scheduling, sleep coaching strategies and ROUTINES.  Today we are specifically focusing on the bedtime routine. What a great bedtime routine can l...

 Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:  - When to add a nap back in - Does bedtime getting later mean we should drop a nap? - Struggling with the 5:30am wake up - Wake windows - Power naps Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant Instagram @thehappysleepcompany Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Today's episode we welcome Zara Arshad, MSc, RP, PMH-C —  Founder of My Ottawa Therapist and author of Stronger Together: A Couple’s Guide to Navigating Your Relationship After Baby .  As a registered psychotherapist and a certified perinatal mental health specialist, Zara works with individuals and couples facing a myriad of challenges. In this episode we dive Zara's top tips around man...

Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:  - When to drop a nap - Dropping down to 2 naps - What to do with early wakes - 6 months old with bedtime varying so much day-to-day - Wake Windows  Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes!   Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant I...

This week's episode is about Thumb sucking. A common worry from families who are looking to take the step of removing a pacifier, is that removing the pacifier is going to cause baby to start sucking their thumb. While there is no magic crystal ball to answer this questions... Here is suggestions and advice on thumb sucking from a sleep consultant!  Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant I...

Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:  - Capping the nap - When to start sleep coaching - Keeping sleep on schedule with busy summer events  - Sleep coaching and diaper changes - Daytime sleep for a 7.5 month old  Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes!       Erin Junker...

Today we welcome  Dr. Tracy Dalgleish  back on Sleep Cues! In this episode we are talking about boundaries — and specifically setting boundaries with in-laws! Dr. Tracy is a Clinical Psychologist, Mom of 2, Wife and Creator of Be Connected. Helping women go from disconnected and overwhelmed in their relationships to being able to share their feelings and needs.  To work through hard moments and fa...

Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:  - Dealing with the witching hour - Wake windows with the second nap being the issue - Newly 3 years old and struggling with the big kid bed - Getting rid of night feeds - Advice for early wakes  Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes...

False starts... this is a popular pain point for many many parents.  We refer to these wakings early in your child’s evening, shortly after you’ve put them down for the night, as “false starts.”  In this episode, we explain more about why "False Starts" might be happening and ways we can go about avoiding them!  Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant Instagram @thehappysleepcompany We...

Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:  - On a 2 nap schedule, when to drop to one nap and how - Wake windows with 3 naps, scheduling them with bedtime - Wake windows and cat naps, what to do - Toddlers and bedtime stalling - When what you are doing is working but wondering if you "should be doing" something different  Have a question? Send it our way...

Today on Sleep Cues we have Dr. Alice Pickering -  a licensed clinical psychologist and certified clinical trauma specialist who believes that prioritizing your mental health should be a non-negotiable. She approaches therapy from a trauma informed and client centered perspective. It may be helpful to know a bit about me should you decide you’d like for us to work together, so let me share! In thi...

 Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:     - Is there such a thing as too long of a sleep sack? - At what length should you cap naps at various ages? - Advice for when baby falls asleep in the car, but they are due for a nap at home - Baby only rocks and nursed to sleep and am terrified of sleep  coaching... advice? - When do children normally drop naps?  Have...

This week's episode of Sleep Cues is all about TWINS (and multiples) - so if you are the parent of multiples or are expecting multiples, this one is for you! We have had experience sleep coaching with twins, triplets and yes - even quadruplets!  So this is our advice on handling multiples and sleep, for them and you! From room set up, when one is always a better sleeper, the 30 minute rule, c...

Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:    - Short naps and bedtime - 3 to 2 nap transitions - Out of town overnight for the first time - Wake windows and bedtime  - Making adjustments with early wakes   Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes!     Erin Junker | Paediatric S...

Today on Sleep Cues we have Libby Ward, the creator of @diaryofthehonestmom — a digital creator, speaker, and mental health advocate with a deep commitment to changing the motherhood narrative and breaking cycles of trauma. Every week, Libby’s content reaches millions of women around the world. Libby talks about hard things she is so real and of course, honest about it. Among topics like mom guilt...

Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! Here's a peak at this week's questions:    - Sleep coaching your little one with an older child too - When to drop a nap - Why we don't start with babies until 14 weeks of age - Your schedule while sleep coaching - Removing the swaddle   Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours...

REPLAY of our DST episode!  Yes the words "time change" can be any parents nightmare, BUT this is the good time change I promise!  Coming up is the beginning of Daylight Saving Time, or the spring forward and  anything that could potentially throw off our little's schedule can be scary.    Now if you have an early waker, around 5:30am, you will now see that turn into 6:30am for you!...

This week's Q&A episode is a special one... Our very own Lauren, has taken us along through her journey with sleep coaching her own little one, and we got a lot of questions back! Listen in to the top 5 follow up questions focused on her experience sleep coaching with her sweet boy Noah! Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hea...