Baby’s Best Blog
A practical, real-talk, and humorous take on baby and child sleep.
S4E11: Breastfeeding And Sleeping with Certified Lactation Consultant Courtney Zentz
Voice Over 0:00 You're listening to the slumber party podcast with your host, Amanda Jewson. a mom of two girls, a child and infant sleep expert and general sleep lover. If you're a tired parent who is desperate for answers,...
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...