Should you distract your crying child? Or is it better to support them to feel their emotions? Is a long lunchtime nap compulsory? What should you do if progress with cot settling starts to come undone? What should you do if the last nap of the day is pushing bedtime too late?

Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) answer these questions and more in this episode of Brand New Little People.

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Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhD's Sleep Practitioners) answer questions from listeners including:

Plus new research that shows the importance of improving preschooler sleep.

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Social media isn't always a friendly or helpful place - especially if you are having a hard time with parenting. This week, Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhD's, Sleep Practitioners) talk about a particularly unhelpful post they saw and discuss how to manage 'toxic positivity.' 

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Major life events can make parenting a real challenge, especially at bedtime. In this episode, Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhD's, Sleep Practitioners), explore the impact of major life events, including injury, illness, death in the family and separation anxiety, on babies and children. Bedtime can become a big challenge when your child is trying to navigate their changing world. 

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Contact naps, where you hold your baby throughout their day naps, can be lovely and are especially nice during the first few weeks when you and your baby are figuring out feeding, and learning more about each other.

However, there often comes a point when parents would like their baby to do some naps in their bassinet or cot. Parents might have lots of get done during their baby's nap time - especially if they have older children or paid work to manage. And babies also start to get heavy, so napping in the cot or bassinet can help give your back a rest.

In this episode Dr Fallon and Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) answer a question from a parent who would like to reduce contact naps and move their 6 month old baby in to the cot at nap time.

How to do it? What to look out for?

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Have you tried to change how or where you settle your baby, only to find they spring awake and cry the moment they notice? You aren't alone!

In this episode, Dr Fallon and Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) discuss a family who experienced this exact problem. Learn how a few small tweaks can help your baby adjust more easily to a new way of settling for sleep.

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The way parents interact with their baby can support strong language development and positive mental health across childhood. And better sleep leads to better quality interactions! In this episode you'll learn how to optimise play time with your baby or toddler.

Listen as Dr Fallon and Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) talk about their postdoctoral fellowships and the research that led to starting Infant Sleep Australia and the Sombelle sleep programs. 

Apologies for the background noise in this episode - a rain storm passed through!

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What should you do when the last nap of the day is getting very long and runs too close to bedtime?

How do you manage your baby or toddler's sleep during illness?

Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) answer these questions and more.

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Does sleep beget sleep?

Will more day sleep result in fewer night wakings, or is the opposite true - does less day sleep result in more night time sleep?

It's a complicated question with a complicated answer but Dr Fallon (PhD, Sleep Practitioner) is going to tease it out for you so you can think about whether your baby might need more or less day sleep.

Don't forget - every baby is different! The discussion in this podcast episode focuses on babies in general, not yours specifically. It's ok to do what you feel is best for your baby.

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It's Infant Mental Health Awareness Week! But what is infant mental health and what can you do to support strong infant mental health?

In this episode Dr Fallon (PhD, Sleep Practitioner) dives in to the continuum of infant mental health, and explores what it is, the importance of secure caregiver attachment, how to tell if your baby has strong mental health, what you can do to boost infant mental health, and what research says about the link between sleep and mental health during childhood.

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