Teething can occasionally affect sleep. If sleep suddenly gets worse during teething, here’s how to help a teething baby sleep better.

If your 8-month-old is waking early, taking short naps, fighting bedtime, or still waking multiple times overnight, the great news is that these sleep challenges are rooted in only a handful of reasons that can easily be worked through. Let's walk through what healthy sleep looks like at 8 months and how to support longer stretches of sleep for your baby without overcomplicating things.

Separation anxiety in babies can start as early as 4-5 months, is most common between 10-18 months, and usually eases up by age 3.

Your toddler won’t sleep seemingly out of the blue. Let’s take a look at why that happens and how to get everyone’s sleep back on track.

“Cry It Out” (CIO) is one method within sleep training, but it is not the definition of sleep training. The best approach for your baby is one that minimizes but doesn’t fear crying, and thoughtfully and consistently addresses the root cause of disruptive sleep patterns.

Sample sleep schedule for a six-month old. If you want a practical example of how to approach sleep with a six-month old, here are two sleep schedules:

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.

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.