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SIDS safe sleeping guidelines
To reduce the incidence of SIDS and fatal sleeping accidents in Australia, SIDS and Kids educates the public in safe sleeping practices for babies. Here are their guidelines.
Your baby's changing sleep habits
As your child gets older, you’ll find their sleep needs change. From their time as a newborn, through to toddlerhood and beyond, children need good sleep to help them develop and stay healthy.
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Baby's night time wakings are a ploy to prevent a sibling
Can't figure out whether your baby is waking at night because they are hot, cold, hungry or unwell? It may just be because they don't want a brother or sister.
Is food keeping your baby (and you) awake?
There are a number of reasons for babies to start waking more often during the night, but checking your child's diet for the naturally occurring chemical salicylate can have a big impact on everyone's sleep.
Sleep schools and the science of settling
Most parents who attend sleep schools with their babies are at their wit’s end. The centres help shell-shocked parents cope with the many confounding aspects of babies and toddlers, from unsettled nights to challenging behaviour.
Parenting all night? You've got to be joking
Parenting sometimes requires a good sense of humour - particularly if it involves staying awake all night long.
Baby sleep: what's working for us
I always thought this kind of thing wasn't for me - or for us. However, with Jasmin, I honestly couldn't see any other way of making things change.
When sleep training goes wrong
Although sleep training seemed to be a success for Alice’s first baby, the experience with her second baby was vastly different – and so was the outcome.
How a week at sleep school changed my life
I’m sure I knew to expect sleep deprivation and stress, but the reality of having a baby who didn’t sleep was one of the most isolating and exhausting experiences of my life.
Rock-a-bye baby ... and sleep for 14 hours a day
Babies aged four to six months sleep an average of 14 hours a day, which drops to 10 hours by the age of nine years, a snapshot of children's sleep patterns has revealed.
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What is sleep training doing to your baby’s brain?
As a new parent, you’re sleep deprived, exhausted and confused. The pressure is on to train your baby to sleep. However, your own intuition can be trusted when it comes to your baby’s cries and sleep.
Study: Singing soothes babies’ pain
Most of us probably sing to our babies to soothe them, or to help them sleep. But a new story shows that it's doing other good things for them, too.
Parents urged to follow safe sleeping practices after ACT baby deaths
Parents are being urged to carry out safe co-sleeping practices following the deaths of 14 babies under a year old in the ACT over the past decade.
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