The Responsive Family Sleep Podcast

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What’s the Best Choice? Making Choices With Your Goals and Priorities in Mind

2026-10-1509:50

What should I do? I get this question a lot from parents, typically after giving them a few options for how to navigate their current sleep situation. It’s an understandable question, but often one that doesn’t have one clear answer. Many sleep situations have multiple good paths to take, and what a specific family should do depends on many factors. In this week’s episode, I’m talking about the many factors that impact the best path forward. When I work with families, I help them think throug...

How Do You Define Healthy Baby Sleep?

2026-10-0809:31

How do you define healthy baby sleep? I bet you’ve been told it’s a baby who goes in their crib drowsy but awake, falls asleep independently, and sleeps through the night. That’s our cultural definition of healthy sleep, but it’s not a more developmentally informed, biologically based definition. In this week’s episode, I’m walking you through a better way to conceptualize healthy baby sleep. I’m also sharing a reminder that healthy and normal doesn’t mean easy or sustainable, and to always r...

Reducing Decision Fatigue in Nighttime Parenting

2026-10-0115:05

There are so many decisions we parents make every single day. It’s exhausting. And trying to make decisions in the middle of the night adds an extra layer of exhausting. Should we wait a few minutes, or go in right way? Is it ok to feed again? Who should respond? These are questions I hear from parents all the time. Sometimes nighttime needs are high, and there isn’t a clear and easy path towards lowering them in the immediate term. However, we can strategize ways to reduce that nighttime dec...

Big Body Play for Better Bedtimes With Heather Boyd

2026-09-2448:01

Is your little one super wiggly at bedtime? Do they have a hard time settling down and relaxing into sleep? Parents often think these littles need more calm (and sometimes that’s a factor) but they can also use more big body play. In this episode, my good friend, sleep coach, and OT Heather Boyd and I are talking about big body play for better bedtimes. We are digging into the reasons movement matters so much when it comes to settling down for sleep, and how sensory needs, regulation, and con...

10 Tips for Falling Back Asleep After a Night Wake With Your Baby

2026-09-1709:05

We are taught to focus on reducing the number of night wakes to improve our sleep. And there is certainly a level of waking where bringing those wake ups down is going to help most parents sleep better. But an equally (if not sometimes more) important part of parent sleep is how quickly you are able to fall back asleep after responding to a night wake. In this episode I’m sharing 10 tips to help you fall back asleep more quickly and get better rest. Some are nighttime specific, and some take ...

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