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Ep 55: The Language of Sleep-What is Your Baby Saying With Their Sleep?

What if your baby’s sleep was a language you just haven’t become fluent in yet?

It can be frustrating to try to figure out what interrupted sleep, resistant naps, or frequent waking are telling us. But if we start looking at this as a language we can learn, the cues become like words, and patterns begin to form sentences that help us understand what our baby needs.

Mentioned in this episode:

  1. Listen to the clues that help you figure out sleep.

  2. Know that sleep may be communicating something outside of sleep altogether.

  3. The need for connection and safety may be the key thing your baby is communicating.

  4. What are the clues we see when sleep is going well? (It’s not just long stretches of sleep!)

  5. How do we translate what we are seeing with baby sleep when it’s not going well?

What you can do next:

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  • ⁠Work with Heather⁠ inside the Confident & Connected Baby Sleep group program or one-on-one.

  • Find previous episodes of the podcast at

Ep 54: What If The Problem Isn't Your Baby's Sleep Schedule?

Have you been doing “everything right” with your baby’s schedule, following the rigid instructions of a nap and bedtime schedule you found in a book or online, and still feel like sleep isn’t working?

Listen to 3 key perspectives that will have you rethinking your relationship to your baby’s sleep schedule.

Ultimately:

  1. Sleep schedules are tools, not solutions.

  2. Stress (in you or your baby) can lead to sleep disruptions that no schedule can fix. Address the stress, connect, and regulate the nervous system.

  3. Regulation strategies that focus on connection help you see more clearly what sleep routine or schedule works best for your baby in this moment

  4. Sensory strategies that use movement, proprioception, heavy work, and vestibular experiences are an important foundation to a regulated nervous system that can fall asleep more easily.

What you can do next:

  • Subscribe to this podcast and share it with a friend!

  • Download the Baby Sleep Connection Podcast Listener Guide at www.familysleep.ca/podcast -it includes a breakdown of how much sleep to expect at each age

  • ⁠Work with Heather⁠ inside the Confident & Connected Baby Sleep group program or one-on-one.

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