Articles & Expert Guides on Baby Sleep

Medically-reviewed expert guides, tips, real-life stories, and articles on Baby Sleep

Wake Windows by Age: Your Easy Guide

Tassia O'Callaghan

Childs Farm’s Complete Guide to Baby Sleep Routines

Katie Mill

Toddler Sleep Regression: Why It Happens & What You Can Do

Tassia O'Callaghan

Moving from a Crib to Toddler Bed: Tips from Real Moms

Tassia O'Callaghan

From Leaks to Sleep: How to Stop Nighttime Diaper Leaks for Better Baby Sleep

Tassia Agatowski

11-Month-Old Sleep Schedule: Naps & Wake Windows

Tassia Agatowski

Newborn Grunting and Squirming While Sleeping? What to Know

Tassia O'Callaghan

4-Month-Old Sleep Schedule: Naps & Wake Windows

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Your Guide to the 9-Month Sleep Regression

Deborah Vieyra

Your Guide to the 5-Month Sleep Regression

Deborah Vieyra

Your Guide to the 11-Month Sleep Regression

Deborah Vieyra

Your Guide to the 3-Month Sleep Regression

Deborah Vieyra

Your Guide to the 7-Month Sleep Regression

Deborah Vieyra

Your Guide to the 10-Month Sleep Regression

Deborah Vieyra

Your Guide to the 6-Month Sleep Regression

Deborah Vieyra

Your Guide to the 8-Month Sleep Regression

Deborah Vieyra

Newborn Sleeping Too Much? When to Worry

Deborah Vieyra

7-Month-Old Sleep Schedule: Naps, Wake Windows & Sleep Regressions

Tassia Agatowski

5-Month-Old Sleep Schedule: Naps, Wake Windows & Sleep Regressions

Tassia Agatowski

10-Month-Old Sleep Schedule: Naps & Wake Windows

Tassia Agatowski

From the community

Am I being selfish by putting my baby to sleep by 8pm and having a strict routine?

My baby goes to sleep between 8 - 8.3 depending on his last nap and I am strict by it as he is goes over its difficult to put him to sleep. It's the same thing with stimulation near his bedtime. It's taken me over an hour to put him to sleep because he fell asleep in the car my husband woke him up and when we walked into the house my in-laws straight away grabbed him and stimulated him. I
Told my husband specifically I need to put him to sleep so take him straight to the room.

I put him down at this time, as 1 he's tired but also after he goes to sleep I get
To shower, make food, eat and have some me time. Whereas for everybody else they want to spend that time with him but I'm the one that has to suffer after.

Am I selfish for wanting some me time in the evening and putting him to sleep and essentially taking away that time with my in-laws? (They work and often back late evening)

Bedtime routine/times

Hi mamas! Just wondering what bedtime your May 2026 babies have?

I’m feeling a bit guilty because my LO is usually in bed quite early now and it means his dad only gets about 1.5–2 hours with him after work before he’s asleep.

At the moment, his 5th and final nap finishes before 6pm, then he’s awake for around 1.5–2 hours. During that time we play, have some quiet wind-down time and get ready for bed. He’s exclusively breastfed, so I do his feed and bedtime. Dad has suggested I should add in another nap so he can go bed later (when he was a newborn he’d go to sleep around 10pm) but he’s naturally shifted into an earlier bedtime and selfishly I finally get some time to myself but I can’t help but feel guilty.

Over nights

Am I bad In saying I don’t want anyone having my baby over night until they are about 6months old- a year old, I’ve had some people say that if my mum wants to look after baby over night that I’m being horrid saying that I don’t want my baby to stay out overnight

Need help baby isn’t sleeping

Hallie is 10 month old on the 13th and she’s never been a good sleeper but the past 2 months it’s got soo bad she’s on 3 meals a day and doesn’t have formula during the day anymore has a 10 ounce bottle before bed but she goes to sleep having the bottle and less than 10 mins later she’s up screaming throwing her head back not wanting the bottle or dummy don’t even think she wants me holding her. She tires herself out and goes to sleep after almost 2 hours of screaming then is awake again over and over again during the night doing the same thing, sometimes even 8 times during the night. it’s got soo bad we’ve had to take her out every night to get her asleep in the car then transfer her into the cot. We’ve tried everything kept a routine, dropped a nap and filled her up before bed in case she’s hungry but nothings working. It’s also like it doesn’t make a difference how she is during the night she’s fine during the day but I’m hardly sleeping. Ive contacted the health visitor and they said they will come out to see us but been a week and haven’t heard anything.
Does anyone have any advice. Anything else I can try.
Picture from yesterday morning

How does everyone else’s sleep schedule loook like?

Trying to understand what “normal” looks like - 4.5 month old ebf who cosleeps and wakes up around 2-3 times over the course of 12 hours at night. She wakes up once a night crying and I nurse her back to sleep and since her 4 month sleep regression started she wakes up babbling at around 5 and falls asleep as soon as I nurse her. I’m not planning on sleep training her.

I know there’s no normal when it comes to babies just wanted to better understand what everyone else’s nights look like.

Settling in sessions nursery

I’ve book my daughters settling in sessions for nursery she gets 2 2 hour sessions. They said the first one I’ll stay with her and the second one i leave her which is very strange I think unless I’ve heard her wrong. Anyways I booked these without thinking 2-4pm and she normally naps at 3pm should I try to move it or keep it as is ?

Anti bassinet

This lil muffin refuses any bassinet/crib/swing/doc-a-tot etc. She only wants to be on me or held by me. Any advice? She’s three weeks. I’m exhausted 😵‍💫

5 year old won’t go to sleep!

Hey everyone! So I need some inspiration for how I can get my 5 year old to go to bed at a decent time. So here’s the gist, I have had a problem with my 5 year old wanting to stay up till 12 sometimes 1 in the morning! with her school starting back this Friday I really need to get her in bed by at least 7 so she can be up by 6. Does anyone else have this problem or has any suggestions on how to help. Please and thank you.

Putting down for bed

My LO is three months old and up until a week ago he was very content and always was easy to put him down in his next to me crib but now wakes up every single time and cries as soon as he hits the crib, I’ve tried putting him down on my bed to see if helps but he does the same thing but eventually falls asleep! At the minute he just wants to be held and to stay asleep that way.

Has anyone else had the same issue or is there any way I can solve it?

Rhythm, Ritual, and Routine?

my baby is seven weeks old, and I think we’re both recovering from last week’s growth spurt, which sort of threw a wrench in any semblance of a routine we’d developed. we have a bedtime ritual, but that time sometimes varies (we try to keep it around 8:00 as best as we can).

I let the baby sleep and nap on demand, but it doesn’t feel like there’s really a rhythm yet. Does anybody have one at 7 weeks? And are yall regularly putting baby down for naps? because it’s contact nap city over here.