Baby’s Best Blog
A practical, real-talk, and humorous take on baby and child sleep.
The Journey Through Childhood Sleep Apnea
DISCLAIMER: This blog is my experience and mine only. I want to be clear that I trust the medical system, am thankful to every doctor I saw, and I feel confident that everyone was responding they best they could at the time. But parent’s know their children and...
The Need For Rest/ How I Almost Lost My Shit
Happy September! Welcome to back to what I like to call the real ‘new year’. I’m sorry, you can’t take me to school every September and have me not have every bone in my body not call that a NEW year. I’m not Jewish, but I think the Jewish faith has it right by...
Naps On The Go: GIRL, GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE!
UPDATE! Need nap help now? Amanda has finally created a NAP MASTERCLASS! Go here to learn more and join the class! When I was 21, I was hired at Lonestar Bar and Grill in Kingston, Ontario. Home of my alma mater Queen’s University (woo!), and the best fajitas...
Why You Shouldn’t Hire Me…🙅🏻♀️
So here’s a blog I never thought I’d be writing But after a lot of thought, a lot of conversations with many moms, and a lot of experience helping babies and families--this is a blog that I didn’t need to write---GIRL I HAD TO WRITE IT. Why? Why would a sleep...
☕️ Why I Quit Coffee, Why I Went Back and What You Need to Know About Coffee and your SLEEP! 💤
I remember my first coffee vividly. It was 2003, I was 20. I did NOT do any work for the ‘distance education’ course I had signed up for at University, and subsequently was writing an exam for the next day. I planned, as many of us have done in moments of desperation,...
🎅🏼Surviving your ‘Ho, Ho, Ho’ by learning to say ‘No, No, No’ 🙅🏻♀️
This was my first baby’s first Christmas and though I look happy, this is a face of exhaustion. We were on week one of teething, and my lovely girl cried all day and all night. It was horrible. I was going to work looking like a zombie and I felt tired to my core. ...
My newborn won’t settle: Momming A Newborn to Sleep
The other night I did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on a mom-Facebook group I’m a part of. It was a lot of fun answering moms questions and a reminder of all the sleep issues moms are dealing with daily: nap length, nap transitions, night wakings, boob addicted babies,...
Why Your Birth Experience and Sleep Are Connected and What You Can Do About It
Trigger Warning--this blog discusses the idea of birth trauma, and a non-descriptive example. What’s YOUR birth story? Hey! I like to keep it light up in here. I mean, I’m someone who loves a good wine, a good comedy more than anyone. But lately, I’ve had something in...
Is Baby Waking Due to Hunger?
We’re all willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that our babies are properly nourished, obviously, but as anyone who’s been through this glorious journey of motherhood will tell you, kids are shrewd. They’re unimaginably clever. They will find ways to get what...