Hey Emma,

My wife and I are loving your tips and have seen great improvement in our LO’s sleep. We had 6 “excellent” nights, followed by two bad ones, followed by two good ones (fingers crossed tonight is a third). I had three semi-specific questions:

1. Is there a “natural nap schedule” for a baby? As in, will our baby consistently have an xx…

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Thanks so much, Emma!!

Thanks again for the reply. We had another great night last night…we’re doing everything we can not to rock the boat. It seems persistence and consistency is still key at times like this.

We watched our monitor from last night, and it turns out she woke up twice and was up for 20-30 minutes, but then self soothed and went back to sleep without…

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Hey Emma, thanks for your reply.

This response is on the back of an unusually good night with our little one, but I’ll answer based on the experience we were having before, and hope that whatever we did yesterday is repeatable…

1. When we were an parental leave, we were often holding her during her naps (with a few in the bassinet in our…

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Hi Emma,

Thank you so much for your new course on sleep. It’s been tremendously helpful. We especially love the demonstrative videos.

We have a question about catnaps. In your video on catnaps, you mention two ways to handle: (1) try to extend by knowing your baby’s sleep cycle length and (2) just roll with the short catnaps. You say you…

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My wife and I have a 13 week old (born prematurely at 37 weeks…not sure if that makes a difference). We are struggling to find a good pattern and finding sanity…we had a milk intolerance that we had to deal with (now have a formula that should be OK as breast feeding wasn’t an option), a baby that frequently got out of swaddles, reflux…

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