Sleepy Qs-Answers to your child sleep questions

Few experiences in life change a person more then becoming a parent. It is an understatement to say that the experience of becoming parents has the capacity to shake even the most rock solid of relationships. In today's episode, Linda and Jess interview Beth Goss, a parent education instructor and Certified Gottman Educator all about the ways in which having a baby impacts your relationship with your partner. Listen in to gain greater understanding into the ways in which having a baby can change your relationship and hear her guidance for new parents on how to weather some of these challenges based on years of experience guiding families through this very intense transition to parenthood.

Beth Goss is a full-time faculty member at North Seattle College where she teaches child development and parent education classes to families raising children birth-five years. She did her graduate work in Education and is a Certified Gottman Educator, Training Specialist, and Public Speaker for the Bringing Baby Home program. She is also a Certified Childbirth Educator and taught childbirth, breastfeeding, newborn care, and sibling preparation at Swedish Medical Center for 17 years. For more information on Beth and to learn about parent coaching with her, check out her website: www.bethgoss.com.

Short naps are often the bane of a new parent's existence. You have just put your baby down for a nap and were on the verge of accomplishing something (like eating a meal or showering) when that 30 minute mark hits and your baby is UP! Listen in to today's episode all about those short naps and what to do to improve them.

As children move into toddlerhood, nightmares and general bedtime fears start to come up more and more. Listen in to today's episode to hear how to address these sorts of sleep challenges that may be starting to happen as your child gets older.

Toddlers are great, right? They are learning SO much every single day, and they can really keep us on our toes. They are also learning how the world around them works and how to have control over every.little.thing. This can lead to a lot of power struggles and behavioral challenges. Tune into our interview with Evelyn Mendal to learn how to manage some of those more difficult toddler behaviors.

Evelyn is a licensed mental health therapist who has worked in private practice providing individual therapy and parent coaching for ten years. She founded Hatch + Bloom, an extensive parenting resource service, with the mission of empowering parents in raising confident children through a science-backed approach promoting the parent-child relationship. Through Hatch + Bloom, Evelyn provides 1:1 parent coaching sessions and parent workshops. Evelyn works through the lens of attachment theory and interpersonal neurobiology. 

You can find more information about the work Evelyn does with families at her website: https://www.hatchandbloom.co/ on IG at @hatchandbloomco.

One of the biggest struggles that we encounter with the families of toddlers who we work with is the challenges that start to arise at bedtime as your child gets older. In particular, we often hear from parents, "I can't get my 3 year old to bed before 9pm!" Listen in to today's episode to learn more about why bedtime has become so late for your 3 year old and what to do about it.

Welcome back for Season 4 of the Sleepy Qs podcast! As we often do to kick off the start of a new season, we wanted to reshare our episode all about how to manage the upcoming time change. Yes, you may have been trying to forget that it was coming. We understand. This is the one that used to be great before you had children because it meant you got an extra hour of sleep on Saturday night. Now it means that you have an extra hour in the day to contend with and sometimes even 24 hours is too long for small children to manage in a day. Have no fear! Today's episode will help you make it through the time change and hopefully not be awake too early on the other side.

While it may not seem like helping your child learn how to sit is related to their sleep, it most definitely is! Just because your baby has learned how to stand themself up, doesn't mean they know how to get themself back into the seated position and then laying down for sleep. Listen in to today's episode to learn how to help your child learn this important skill and not get stick in a regression as a result.

Parenting is HARD. This should not come as a newsflash to any listeners of our podcast. It is a journey that is often marked by many ups and downs along the way. For any parent who has struggled, even just a little bit, with this intensely hard job of being a parent, you will benefit from listening in to today's interview with parenting expert Lina Acosta Sandaal as she talks us through the ways in which we can start to gain more confidence in our parenting and learn how become the parent we want to be for our children.

Lina Acosta Sandaal, MA, LMFT is a psychotherapist, development expert and founder of Stop Parenting Alone, a parenting education and consulting program in Miami, FL. She is a human development expert for Telemundo’s national broadcasts and consultant for MomsRising an advocacy group for family rights in the United States capital. Her mission is for all parents to fall in love with their parenting journey.

Contact info for Lina:

Website: https://stopparentingalone.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/stopparentingalone/

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The arrival of a sibling in the house is a BIG change for everyone. This sort of an adjustment can most definitely trigger a regression in your child's sleep. Tune in to learn more about how to manage this and hopefully prevent this big change from causing too many disruptions in your now bigger household.

Helping your baby learn how to roll themselves from their back to their belly and belly to back can be incredibly important in improving your child's overall sleep.  Listen in to today episode to learn why this is important.  Also pick up tips and tricks to help your baby learn to be happier while practicing tummy time so that it can feel easier and therefore build core strength and lead to improved rolling.