The four-month sleep regression can occur when babies’ sleep patterns change from newborn patterns to adult patterns. It does not have to ruin sleep forever!! Don’t fear the regression…

The Soothing Ladder  is a gradual series of interventions designed to gently encourage your baby to develop independence and soothe themselves

Sending your child to school for the first time can bring some serious nerves. It’s hard to watch our kids navigate nervousness and watch them go off on their own. But, as a parent who has been there, I want to take some of the stress out of it.

Andrea Scannell talks with Paige Bellenbaum of The Motherhood Center about Perinatal Mood Disorders

Who out there has had (or currently has) a baby who screams for hours every evening? The witching hour is real and so hard. We talked about it in my new mom group yesterday and here's a little recap. Comment below if you are in the thick of it or have reached the other side.

One of the many things that helps to set the stage for good sleep is curiosity.  We do a LOT of things to help babies settle. We wrap, walk, bounce, pat, shush, chant, sing, dance, bend, wiggle, sway, not to mention beg, cry and cajole. In the beginning,…

I promise you this: one hour of actual quality time with a well-rested, happy child is worth a million times more than four hours of struggling with an overtired child.

My job is to help parents step back and see what their baby is capable of.  With very few exceptions, babies know how to fall asleep and stay asleep. There are a million ways in which we interfere with this process.

For most of us, schedules and routines go out the window when we’re on vacation. That’s kind of the point, right? Unfortunately, babies and toddlers don’t really get the whole vacation thing. They don’t suddenly stop needing 13+ hours of sleep a day.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret that sleep consultants don’t want you to know. You ready? We do not have any secret tricks to get babies and kids to sleep.

Breastfeeding mothers can, without a doubt, help their babies learn to become better sleepers. There’s this notion out there that there’s a war between breastfeeding and sleep training: an idea that you can have one or the other, but certainly not both. This is simply not true.

One of our own MOMallies, Yasmin Rihawi, created this video about MOMally support groups- Thank you, Yasmin!!! These groups, which meet weekly in my home really are the heart and soul of MOMally. If you are in NYC- you can find information and sign up on momally.com.

In the age of instant access to worlds of information it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the conflicting advice and overabundance of opinions…

Bottle refusal is STRESSFUL, to say the least.  I have talked with countless moms who are in an absolute panic about going back…

For most of us, schedules and routines go out the window when we’re on vacation. That’s kind of the point, right? Unfortunately, babies and toddlers don’t really get the whole vacation thing.  They don’t suddenly stop needing 13+ hours of sleep a day.

What if I’m the only one who is breastfeeding? What if I’m the only one who is bottle feeding? What if I’m doing something wrong?  What if I don’t know how to get the stroller folded?  What if I can’t get the baby to latch?  What if I haven’t showered?  What if I am doing great and I feel like I’m supposed to be a mess?  What if I don’t like anyone?  What if no one likes me?  What if…