Cuddling your baby to sleep: It is a parents right to cuddle their baby to sleep and the babies right to be cuddled. It is only when this occurs at every sleep time that it may become a problem. Some babies who are constantly cuddled to sleep may only learn to sleep with a cuddle, [...]

Sleep music/sounds: Some babies benefit enormously from calm background sounds such as a cd playing calm music or just ‘white’, non-intrusive noise such as a radio ‘off’ the station. The function is two fold; firstly the sound can act as an independent sleep association (see book /dvd) so the baby associates it with sleep and [...]

As if parents don’t have enough pressure on them to meet the demands of daily life, as a parent, provider and partner, but now recent research studies published in the journal of Child Development, have shown that partnership/marital discord can cause sleep disturbances in infants. The study was conducted on babies who were adopted at [...]

Many sleep strategies in the past have been single focused, that is they are based on one or two sets of facts or assumptions. Safe Sleep Space is an integrated approach that considers knowledge from a variety of disciplines that consider the growth and development of infant brains, psychotherapeutic understandings of infants and parents and [...]