Better Bedtime Chronicles

Are sleep plans really customized? How can you tell a baby's temperament without being in the home?Is it ever just the baby, or is it the parent? What is an overnight stay like? What does it look like behind the scenes as a sleep consultant?

Do you have 2, 3 or more kids? Let's get the bedtime routine on point so you can have some time to chill before you go to bed.Make the best use of your evening by connecting with your children throughout a simple bedtime routine.

Bridget and Nicole talk all things naps, and handle the most commonly asked questions about naps. These questions include "why won't my baby sleep when they are obviously exhausted?" and "why are my baby's naps chronically short?."

Bridget and Nicole are joined by Tania Heinemann, IBCLC and owner of Yellowood Nutrition and Breastfeeding (https://yellowood.ca/about/). They chat about the intersections in sleep and baby feeding, touching on topics including colic, reflux, feeding to sleep, sleep training and the impact on breastfeeding and the importance of building a community as a new parent.

Single parents unite! Please welcome our very first guest on Better Bedtime Chronicles. Heather will discuss challenges unique to single parenting, co-parenting and everything in between.

Lean into "good enough" parenting. Let's find out what decent sleep looks like and how to know if you really need sleep training.

Bridget and Nicole tackle the commonly heard protest "I can't help at night because I have to work in the morning." This episode is a great listen for anyone who is parenting with a partner and is looking to find ways to share in the nighttime parenting load.

With DST and halloween coming up, Bridget and Nicole discuss all the most common sleep disruptors and how to cope with them. This episode falls under "advanced sleep training" and is assuming you have some good sleep fundamentals in place already. If not, jump back a few episodes or reach out for more support! Resources: Daylight Savings Time Article: https://huckleberrycare.com/blog/how-daylight-saving-affects-young-children

"I have to pee!" How to address potty training relating to sleep and night wakings.

Are you standing in the way of your baby's sleep? Learn how we can unknowingly be the very thing that's stopping our children from sleeping well.

Do you live with someone who has sassy feelings about sleep training? Or are you worried that your baby's wakings could disturb your neighbours? You are not alone!

On the eve of summer solstice, Bridget and Nicole chat about early morning wakings. Find out the most common causes, and how to manage. Happy Solstice!

Bridget and Nicole dive into the concept of distress tolerance, and discuss how to support our kids to develop skills for coping with and sitting in distress. They also discuss how parents can increase their own capacity for sitting with their own discomfort when their kids are in distress.

Why have most of us experienced shame in our parenting journey? Learn how carrying judgement about sleep choices impacts our mental health.

Where should your baby sleep? When should you transition to a toddler bed? https://betterbedtime.ca/transition-from-crib-to-bed/

Bridget and Nicole talk about managing toddler sleep, including safe sleep environments, toddler bedtime battles and our favourite toddler sleep strategies.

Bridget and Nicole discuss the 9 month sleep regression, the transition from 2 naps to 1, and the transition to daycare.

What you can expect when adjusting to a two nap schedule.

Learn why sleep regressions happen and what you can do to get through it.

Bridget and Nicole discuss the highs and lows of parenting a newborn. They touch on what is "normal" for newborn sleep, the transition to new parenthood and perinatal mental health. Resources: -Alexnadra Sacks on Matresence: https://medium.com/@alexandrasacks/matrescence-what-is-it-bea6aa0450d0

Connecting our worth to our child's sleep.

Bridget and Nicole talk about attachment theory and the impact of sleep training on attachment. Interesting read: https://parentdata.org/sleep-training-is-it-bad/

Bridget and Nicole offer intros and details about how they became involved in sleep consulting, and what they hope to offer with this podcast.