10 Tips For Fall
It’s almost that time of the year when we wave goodbye to the long summer days and welcome orange leaves, pumpkin pies, and crisp air. While the summer months are passing, many kids are still enjoying holidays. The much-loved pastime of public pools, overseas holidays, and school camps, things may look a little different this […]
Posted: 2 September 2020
Resources for Parents: March 2020 Edition
Posted: 31 March 2020
23 Activities to do Outside the Home in Baby’s First Year
Your first year with your baby is such a magical time, and no doubt, you want to make the most of every moment. It happens so often for moms of infants and toddlers that days can go by and you feel like you haven’t left the home (and might even be going a little bit […]
Posted: 18 February 2020
How to Ensure Healthy Sleep While Traveling with Infants & Toddlers
Traveling is one of the most rewarding experiences a family can have together. There is the excitement of seeing a new place. The joy of bonding as a group away from the distractions of home. And of course, the residual benefits everyone receives from a little rest and relaxation.However, for parents of infants and toddlers, […]
Posted: 3 December 2019
The Most Common Newborn Sleep Myths
New parents receive a lot of things. Of course, the most important is their new bundle of joy! But there are also the cards. The congratulations. The cute baby clothes. The nursery furniture. The list goes on and on…But new parents also receive something that they might never have imagined (or wanted)… unsolicited parenting advice! […]
Posted: 4 November 2019
The Sleep Diet: Keep Your Resolutions & Achieve Sleep Success
We all know the connection between what we eat and our weight and energy levels – and tend to pay extra attention to that during resolution-seeking January. But have you ever stopped to think about how what you eat affects your sleep, and how your sleep quality affects your food choices? Whether or not we […]
Posted: 29 January 2018
The Scoop on Poop
Moms and Dads, it’s time to get down and dirty. And not the way you would have in your twenties. No, we’re here to give you the low down on what goes on downtown. That’s right. The breakdown of bowel movements. The scoop on poop. When you have a newborn, who’s waking through the night, […]
Posted: 9 January 2018
Is Your Baby Sleeping Dirty?
When we first went shopping for baby furniture and supplies, I thought picking out the crib was going to be the hardest part. Colour, style and quality were all concerns obviously, but at the end of the day as long as they were all safe they weren’t really all that different, right? For me, the […]
Posted: 18 April 2017
Build Your Body’s Best Defense
Tired. Coughing. And sneezing. With a nose that won’t stop running. “Again?!” you exclaim, befuddled as to how your teetering tot has managed to pick up yet another illness that will inevitably spread throughout the entire family like wildfire (likely starting with you!). As you brace yourself for the tears, trials and tribulations, you think, […]
Posted: 28 February 2017
To Sleep or Not to Sleep – It’s No Question for New Mom Jillian Harris
It was a sleep coach and client relationship that was meant to be. After my first conversation with Jillian Harris, host of Love It Or List It (Vancouver) and Love It Or List It Too (USA), I knew that we’d make a good team to get baby Leo to sleep through the night and take […]
Posted: 20 January 2017
Ask me anything! A sleep consultant’s answers to parents’ top 10 questions about baby sleep!
I get a lot of questions about sleep – from clients of babies and clients of toddlers; from moms and from dads; from grandma and grandpas; from inexperienced parents, and parents who are on their eighth child. I have answered questions on the phone, via email, through text message, in line at the farmers’ market, […]
Posted: 1 August 2016
6 benefits of reading at bedtime
Parents are constantly told “read to your child at bedtime.” But, more than just making it a habit or doing it because we’re “supposed to,” it’s important to understand the crucial benefits that reading at bedtime provides to both your child’s healthy sleep, and his whole life: Reading is part of a consistent, proper bedtime […]
Posted: 15 July 2016
Meeting diaper bag must-haves: Oemi Baby’s Parkside for the win!
Meeting with my sleepy mama clients, I see a LOT of diaper bags. And, it’s no secret that I have become a huge fan of Oemi Baby since falling in love with my first bag of their collection. So, when a very good (and very pregnant!) friend recently asked me to tell her all of […]
Posted: 8 March 2016
Four ways to sell baby sleep to a skeptic
When it comes to babies’ sleep, everyone has an opinion: Baby needs more sleep; baby needs less sleep; she should be swaddled; he should be in a toddler bed; let her cry it out; pick him up more…. The list goes on and on. And then there are the baby sleep skeptics, who just don’t […]
Posted: 1 March 2016