Sleep Associations and Sleep Difficulties in Babies

Need Sleep? We have you covered with this week's episode of The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast.  

This week we tackle sleep associations and sleep difficulties in babies with our Sleep Expert Dr Laura Conway from Infant Sleep Australia. 

In this week's podcast we cover: 

- What sleep association are

- We discuss common sleep associations formed with babies and what might help: 

- Feeding to sleep

- Rocked to sleep

- Dummy constantly falling out and baby waking when it does 

-  Wanting to only contact nap 

- Wanting to only sleep if they can feel their parents' breath 

- Wanting to hold their parents' hand 

- Only sleeping if a parent is sleeping on the floor next to them 

- Only sleeping if on the move (as soon as the pram stops, or the car engine turns off their little eye snap open) 

- How sleep difficulties can sometimes be different to sleep associations 

- We discuss common sleep difficulties and Laura shares her tips and recommendations 

- Numerous wake ups overnight 

- Screaming and crying for hours on end 

-  Early risers 

-  Runs hot 

-  Very hard to settle in the night, once wake for a feed is then wide awake and ready to play. 

- How as parents we can know if there may be a medical reason that our baby isn't sleeping?  At what stage parents need sleep support? 

- Is 'sleep training' safe? 

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