Most babies need 10.5 to 12 hours of sleep overnight, so if your baby is hitting that number, you’re probably not dealing with an early waking.

How can I fix a split night? If your baby is experiencing a split night, it’s important to remember that the night needs to shrink before it can extend again.

If bed-sharing is working beautifully for your family, I’m genuinely thrilled for you. But if you’re reading this while on your second cup of coffee, your body aching from sleeping sideways, and your to-do list backed up because naps mean the whole house shuts down, this might be for you.

How to make the transition: The goal is not to stop nursing entirely, but to separate feeding from sleep.

Think your baby is almost ready (or more than ready) to drop a nap? Here are the 4 signs to look out for: baby isn’t tired at their usual sleep times, naps become less predictable, baby resists the last nap of the day and nighttime sleep disruptions appear.

Discover the sleep training tips and insights to help you sleep train your twins and get them to sleep better at night and naptime.

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Traveling with kids across time zones can feel intimidating. Not because it’s impossible, but because the predictable sleep schedules that keep your family thriving are inevitably going to shift. The truth is, sleep can bend on vacation without breaking. With a little strategy and flexibility, most families adjust far more smoothly than they expect.

Although nightmares and night terrors are often lumped together, they’re caused by different sleep states and call for different responses. Understanding that difference can take a lot of the fear and guesswork out of those long nights.

At all ages, babies need their parents, and parents need to sleep to function and thrive in this role. So when you're ready to make changes at three months, you can. But what's important is looking at variables. Sleep training can be appropriate at 3 months, but the key is knowing what’s realistic for your baby at that stage versus what’s realistic at 5 months.