Caring advice to help your baby sleep well

Welcome here at Baby Sleep Advice for free advice, tips and tricks and the most helpful sleep facts to help your baby and you sleep well. 

You'll find down-to-earth help, not just the classic put your baby down awake but tips that work, also in the long run. All gathered from personal experience and that of many others - and supported by baby and infant sleep research.

Discover how other parents tackle their baby's sleep problems. Find your doable and effective way to guide your dearest one towards a good sleep routine. And not in the least: maximise your own sleep too!

What you will not find on this site: a one-stop solution with a click-here-to-order button. Even if some such available "solutions" can work for some people ...

Unfortunately, there is no one miracle method that works for all babies in all families.

Your best option? Combine the free information on this site:

• Realistic advice

• Real life stories from other parents

• Basic sleep facts

… and discover all you need for a good night’s sleep.

Good sleep now for a healthy future

We all know how important sleep is for babies. It is crucial for their growth and development. Recent research also shows how sleep affects baby’s health when growing up.

A baby with bad sleeping routines not only risks sleep disturbances as an older child or adult. She will also have increased chances to develop obesity and emotional difficulties like depression and anxiety.

Researchers insist on the importance of teaching babies to regulate their own sleep as soon as possible and to have them sleep enough.

Do we need to fear the worst after a few broken nights? When our baby simply seems unable to soothe herself to sleep?

Of course not. There’s a lot of room and time for learning. There are plenty of simple ways to guide your child, gently, towards good sleeping habits.

Most babies are not born with the skills to sleep when and where parents want. But they all are able to sleep. It’s up to us to create the right environment and guide them on the right track.

Discover all you need on Baby Sleep Advice

Browse around the site to discover all information. You will find:

• My best general sleep advice

Proven best-practice techniques that form a good basis to start from in any situation: a pracitcal guide in the Baby Sleep Help pages.

• My best advice in specific situations

Specific advice for many specific situations (e.g. help your baby sleep through the night, how to deal with typical sleep disturbances like baby teething, a cold, baby separation anxiety, etc.)

• Effective and doable tried-and-tested tips-and-tricks

Have worked for so many and definitely worth a try: each topic discussion gives practical tips along with the background info.

• Sleep stories from other parents, find out how they did it

The Sleepy Baby Story Collection is a very valuable part of the site. It's good to know that you are not alone.

Read other parent's sleep stories for a wealth of real-life tips and ideas. And share your own story too ...

The live week-to-week Sleep Diary is another great source of tips and tricks, learnt the hard way.

• Sleep facts to help you understand how and why …

Knowing a few facts about sleep has always helped me to understand how my children sleep. It helps to understand why your baby will sleep easier at certain times or in certain situations. 

It helps to know why you can feel so down after a few broken nights. I’ve gathered the most meaningful facts for you throughout the site.

• ... and a blog to keep you up to date

What's New? The Baby Sleep Blog keeps you up to date with the site. You can subscribe to the RSS-feed too.  

So, welcome to browse and find the information you need to help your baby sleep well. Scroll down for a full content overview.