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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 254
 | October 5, 2026
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It's Nerve-Wracking to Put a Baby to Bed So Early!

This mother had done this before.
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Blog 253B.
 | September 21, 2026
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A New Sleep Solution: Sebastian's Story

Family conflict and marital stress predict sleep problems in children. Marital satisfaction tends to correlate with better, more cooperative coparenting.
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Blog 253A
 | September 14, 2026
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Co-Parenting Quality

Marital satisfaction and co-parenting quality are closely linked. Parents who report higher satisfaction in their relationship tend to work together more cooperatively as parents — and that cooperation turns out to matter a great deal for children's sleep.
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Blog C253AY
 | September 10, 2026
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Do Late Bedtimes Hurt Academic Achievement Across Whole Societies?

What do we know about sleep timing in different parts of the world?
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Blog C253AX
 | September 9, 2026
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But Children in Other Cultures Go to Bed Late and Do Fine

This question deserves a careful answer because the evidence is genuinely more complex than either a simple yes or a simple no.
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Blog 253
 | September 7, 2026
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Marital Satisfaction and Your Child's Sleep

The quality of your relationship with your partner is not separate from your child's sleep. It is part of it.
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Blog 252D
 | August 31, 2026
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The First Six Weeks: What to Expect and What to Do A guide for expectant and brand-new parents, written before the habits form

This post is addressed to a specific reader: the parent who has not yet had her baby, or who has a baby who is days or weeks old.
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Blog C252CX
 | August 25, 2026
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Don’t Tell People You’re Doing Extinction at 6 Weeks

“My daughter and I got off to a rough start. I had retained placenta for 12 days, my milk wasn’t coming in, and she was probably hungry the whole time.
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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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