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Through this blog, I will regularly provide new information on baby sleep training and sleep advice to help your child enjoy healthy sleep.
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Blog 138A
 | June 5, 2023
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Army & Sleep To Win, In Life and at War, Sleep as a Weapon

I have posted 29 reels about Army & Sleep on my Instagram page (#marcweissbluth)
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Blog 134
 | June 5, 2023
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Healthy Infant Sleep, More Sex for Parents

A 2023 paper, ‘Indirect associations between infant sleep, parent sleep and sexual well-being in new parent couples’, studied infant sleep quality, parental sleep, sexual frequency, and sexual desire at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months postpartum.
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Blog 133
 | May 29, 2023
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Do Sleep Solutions Work?

Advice to parents on helping their children sleep better is presented in ‘What a Parent Can Do’. Do these suggestions work? YES!
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Blog 132
 | May 22, 2023
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How to Choose a Sleep Solution

One way to think about different sleep solutions and help you choose one is to organize them into three groups.
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Blog 131
 | May 15, 2023
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Healthy Sleep Produces Healthy Brain Development

FOOD, How we feed our child affects their physical health. Parents choose what to feed their child. Different choices produce different outcomes.
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Blog 130
 | May 8, 2023
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Unappreciated Power of Early Bedtimes (#3)

A 2022 report studied sleep, depression, and brain development in children at about 4.5, 10, 12, 13, 17, and 19 years of age. They measured the volume of gray matter of the brain (representing the concentration of the cell bodies of the nerves in the brain). There was an “interaction between bedtime and preschool depression severity, indicating that children with the earliest bedtimes and the lowest levels of depression showed the largest gray matter volume.” 
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Blog 129
 | May 1, 2023
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Unappreciated Power of Early Bedtimes (#2)

The 4 sleep variables that they studied individually were: Bedtime 1. Night time sleep hours 2. Night awakening frequency (how often the child awakens at night) 3. Sleep onset latency (how long it takes to fall asleep) 4. Sleep onset latency (how long it takes to fall asleep)
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Blog 128
 | April 24, 2023
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Melatonin for Your Child?

Does melatonin help your child sleep better? A 2020 study titled “Efficacy and safety of melatonin for sleep onset insomnia in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials” attempted to answer this question.
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Healthy Sleep in Young Children Has Carryover Benefits in Adolescence

Benefits from early healthy sleep habits persist in preteens and teenagers, who continue, pretty much on their own, to get healthy sleep.
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Sleep Spa and Beauty Sleep

Sometimes I have recommended to teenagers who are short on sleep that they take a five-day “sleep spa” treatment. No, that doesn’t mean having their parents book them into an expensive resort! It simply means dedicating five days to going to sleep earlier than usual.
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Fathers

Fathers can help children sleep as well as mothers. Get dad on board!
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6-week crying peak

Antonio was born two weeks early and without difficulty. I remember thinking several hours after his birth that he was going to be a very easy boy, since my pregnancy and delivery were both routine and relatively easy. Three days after we brought him home, however, I realized that my expectations might have been a little off.
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