Sometimes a baby is generally miserable and rarely sleeps because some babies are like that. And sometimes it's because they have reflux. If you suspect you're dealing with reflux it's time to talk to your pediatrician. However your pediatrician won't be able to make a definitive diagnosis without doing something invasive (like an endoscopy which requires putting baby under anesthesia) so you guys will talk it over and make an educated guess. Regardless of which conclusion you and your pediatrician come to, if you even REMOTELY suspect your baby may have reflux you'll want take the following steps so that you...

To all my baby loving peeps out there, I hope you have a wonderful holiday full of baby smiles and long naps. I hope you are surrounded by friends and family who will shower your children with love while you sneak off to have a well-deserved date. I hope your favorite holiday dress makes it through dinner sans spitup. And I hope your night is long and uninterrupted! To everybody who stopped by to say hi or sent me a lovely email, cheers to you! It honestly makes my day every single time. Really. And while I will likely continue my woefully infrequent...

Every few months somebody throws out a fiercely alarming article about how cry it out will permanently damage your child. The latest one caught my attention because it was featured on Yahoo's home page. And given that zillions of people read Yahoo it's probably going to freak a lot of people out. Stupid Yahoo. The Yahoo article is actually sourcing an even more alarming article from Psychology Today. Although I felt obligated to link to it I'm telling you, DON'T READ IT. Also while the title "Psychology Today" may sound like an academic journal, it isn't. This is a magazine, just like...

There are many big challenges with a newborn baby: figuring out the soothing thing, unbreakable swaddling, learning how to feed a baby, wrestling them to sleep, etc. Usually by the 3 month mark, those hurdles have all been conquered. You are now a confident parent rocking the baby play groups, champion of navigating the grocery store with a baby, and chilling with other parents at Starbucks. Champion parents will also have already read What You Need to Know About Sleeping Through the Night Part 1. It's long and not particularly funny but it will explain the single most important thing you...

I get tons of baby sleep email, mostly because people don't like to air their dirty baby sleep laundry in the comment section. I get it. The web is where we share parenting triumphs: baby's first steps, first time on the potty, first Christmas. But email is where the real work of parenting happens: cry it out, sleep desperation, meddling in-laws, etc. But what you see when you get 10 emails a week is that almost everybody is getting stuck on the same sleep challenges. So on that note I would like to share a recent email: There are three major...