BB Sleep Co

MEMORIES//⁣
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Let this be your reminder to make the memories. ⁣
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Stay up late. Eat the candy. Break the sleep rules (a little). Stay in bed in the morning and watch movies. ⁣
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Make the memories. Get back to the routine, schedule and rules when the holiday is done and you need normalcy back.

ABOUT ME// ⁣
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With many new faces around here I thought I better tell you a bit about me. ⁣
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Mom of 3. Almost 6 year old, 3.5 year old, 6 week old⁣
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Labour and delivery nurse⁣
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Sleep consultant (obviously - most of you are here for this)⁣
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Believer in small acts of self care to keep us going. (this is also why I’m a beautycounter consultant - love that sh*t)⁣
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Screentime parenting ⁣
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Use f*ck probably too often, not willing to change⁣
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Have never had a PB&J, and won’t ⁣
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Could eat pizza every day, and might ⁣
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Was previously a highly ranked squash player and represented Canada⁣
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Love a good meme ⁣
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Now it’s your turn… tell me something about you⁣
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TIP ALERT!! - Daylight Savings// ⁣
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"fall back" is coming up!!!!

Are you a parent who plans in advance and then painlessly adjusts the clock? Or are you a parent who adjusts the clock and then scrambles? ⁣
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If you like to plan in advance, here's how it's going to go: Adjust all sleep by 15 minutes every 2-3 days⁣
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This will allow your baby to adjust to the "new" times without getting overtired (read: grouchy). Example: If your schedule is usually nap at 12pm and bedtime at 7pm, move both later by 15 minutes every few days until you reach 1pm nap and 8pm bedtime.... when the clocks adjust on November 7th - BAM! 12pm and 7pm again!!.... ⁣
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and yes, you're going to want them to start "sleeping in" until 8am before the time change too. ⁣
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BIG KID SLEEP// ⁣
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It’s no secret that my kids aren’t perfect sleepers. I know, I know, it’s shocking! ⁣
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But we can’t force them to sleep, we can provide them opportunities and healthy sleep habits and the rest is up to them. ⁣
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If our big kids are sleeping well, having night wakings, fighting bedtime - there’s usually (almost always) a reason. ⁣
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Ev had been waking up 1-3 times a night for a long time - I’m talking like a year… I couldn’t figure it out, she has healthy sleep habits, bedtime is solid (so I thought), she knows the rules and can verbalize to stay in bed but she just wasn’t doing it. ⁣
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We tried melatonin, magnesium, consequences, rewards, locking the door, child psychology, behavior therapy… nothing was working. ⁣
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Finally I took her to a sleep specialist (a doctor who does sleep consulting) we walked through her bedtime routine and made a tiny change and BAM! I don’t want to jinx it but she’s slept through the night more times than not this week!!! ⁣
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What was the change?? Get ready because it SO SMALL! ⁣
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Instead of saying “I’ll come back in 1 minute to check on you” (and eventually 3, 5, x number of minutes) we switched it to “I’ll come check on you AFTER you fall asleep” ⁣
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Somewhere along the way she decided that she NEEDED us to check on her to fall asleep. So in the night she would wake and feel like she needed us to check on her in order to go back to sleep. ⁣
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So long story long, if you have a big kid who isn’t sleeping well, look super super close at their bedtime routine. I bet there’s a culprit in there. ⁣