Back Sleeping During Pregnancy and the Sydney Stillbirth Study
Pregnancy can be cruel. Just when you are at your most swollen, bloated, and exhausted, sleep proves frustratingly elusive. Every night, you toss and turn, trying to find a comfortable position, your...
View ArticleCritics of Cry-It-Out Fundamentally Misunderstand How Stress Affects the Brain
Because whether or not to sleep train can be such a fraught decision for new parents, I wanted to share my sleep training story, and to explain why, given everything we know about stress, the argument...
View ArticleThe Middlemiss Study Tells Us Nothing About Sleep Training, Cry-It-Out, or...
Last week, I wrote a post about sleep training and stress, in which I argued that everything we know about stress suggests that sleep training is not harmful. In response, some people objected that...
View ArticleSurviving the First Year: Two books to help you understand baby’s sleep
For most new parents, sleep becomes an obsession, their most precious commodity. They will happily trade exercise, sex, and time with friends for just a shot at catching some Z’s–kind of like how a rat...
View ArticleBack sleeping and stillbirth revisited: A reason for caution, or a few extra...
As longtime readers of my blog know, in 2011, carrying my first child, I became obsessed with the question of whether pregnant women could lie on their backs–either for short periods of time, such as...
View ArticleHow I Overcame Postpartum Insomnia
For a year and a half after giving birth to my third child, a full night’s sleep eluded me like some kind of impossible dream. In retrospect, it is clear that I was suffering from chronic insomnia, and...
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