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When sleep problems are medical
A minority of persistent sleep difficulty has a physical cause, and behavioural approaches will not fix any of them.
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Safe sleep guidance, routines, regressions and night waking.
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Dropping to one nap and giving up naps
The nap transitions are the bumpiest periods in toddler sleep, and rushing or resisting them both cause problems.
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What sleep training is and is not
The methods differ substantially, the evidence is better than critics claim and narrower than advocates suggest.
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Early bedtimes, late bedtimes and getting the timing right
Both overtiredness and undertiredness produce the same result, and telling them apart is the whole skill.
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Travelling and holidays with a baby
Sleep, feeding and safety all need adjusting, and the preparation determines whether it is a holiday or a relocation of the difficulty.
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Dummies, thumbs and comfort objects
Non-nutritive sucking is normal and useful, and each option has a different set of trade-offs.
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Room sharing, cots and moving to their own room
The six-month recommendation has a specific evidence base, and the practicalities afterwards are a family decision.
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Sleep regressions, and whether they are real
The ages are not fixed and the underlying phenomenon is genuine: development disrupts sleep, repeatedly.
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Night waking after six months
Waking is normal at every age; what changes is whether the baby can return to sleep without help, and why.
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Naps, and the schedules people obsess over
Wake windows and nap schedules are useful frameworks and are frequently applied with a rigidity nobody needs.
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Newborn sleep, and why nothing works yet
Babies in the first months have no body clock, short sleep cycles and no capacity for routine, which explains most of it.
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Safe sleep, and what the guidance actually says
The recommendations are specific, evidence-based, and frequently relayed in a vague form that helps nobody.