by lcbaker | Oct 1, 2012 | Sleep
Parents don’t need to sleep. You know that, right? Babies need sleep. It’s absolutely essential for their neurological development that they get at least 70% of the recommended hours of sleep (which you can reference here). If they get less, their...
by lcbaker | Jul 30, 2012 | Sleep
Cosleeping is a controversial practice these days. You’ve probably heard the warnings: it will ruin your sleep, destroy your marriage, prevent your child from developing independence, and give your baby an oedipal complex. Not to mention raising the risk of...
by lcbaker | Apr 30, 2012 | Featured, Sleep
Sleeping through the night. It’s the ultimate goal of the early parenting years, the Holy Grail of baby experts. The road to a full nights’ sleep is a mountain you climb, armed with swaddling blankets, pacifiers, and coffee, until at last you reach the top...
by lcbaker | Feb 22, 2012 | Featured, Sleep
Last night, my wonderful sleeping newborn, who has slept so well since he was born, decided to sleep like a baby instead. Darn newborn sleep. Anyway, he was awake and crying from 2 am to 4 am. Lovely. I know this because I’m tracking his sleep patterns, on the...
by lcbaker | Jan 18, 2012 | Natural Parenting, Sleep
I heard a friend say recently that second babies are born to make fools of Mama. I wouldn’t say that Teddy is making a fool of me–Anastasia pretty much has that covered–but he certainly is showing me how different babies can be. If I hadn’t...
by lcbaker | Jan 6, 2012 | Cloth Diapers, Elimination Communication, Sleep
Teddy is two weeks old today, and he has a diaper rash. And I don’t mean to sound like a high-maintenance over-worried first-time mom or anything, but to me, this is a disaster of massive proportions. There are several reasons. One, Anastasia never had a diaper...
