Sleep Cues: The Everything Parenting Podcast

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Q&A: The Witching Hour, Getting Rid of Night Feeds, Struggling with the Big Kid Bed & More! May 09, 2023

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Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:
- Dealing with the witching hour
- Wake windows with the second nap being the issue
- Newly 3 years old and struggling with the big kid bed
- Getting rid of night feeds
- Advice for early wakes

Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes!

Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

False Starts: What They Are and Ways to Avoid Them May 02, 2023

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False starts... this is a popular pain point for many many parents. We refer to these wakings early in your child’s evening, shortly after you’ve put them down for the night, as “false starts.”
In this episode, we explain more about why "False Starts" might be happening and ways we can go about avoiding them!

Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Q&A: This Week's Top Sleep Questions! Apr 25, 2023

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Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:
- On a 2 nap schedule, when to drop to one nap and how
- Wake windows with 3 naps, scheduling them with bedtime
- Wake windows and cat naps, what to do
- Toddlers and bedtime stalling
- When what you are doing is working but wondering if you "should be doing" something different

Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes!

In this episode we've partnered with Obasan
Click HERE to save - We want your kids sleeping great! Use code HAPPYSLEEPTODDLER at checkout to get $24 off a toddler shredded rubber pillow for your little one! Head to obasan.com / obasan.ca and get great sleep started!

Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Conversations For Couples to Have Before Baby Arrives: an interview with Dr. Alice Pickering Apr 18, 2023

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Today on Sleep Cues we have Dr. Alice Pickering - a licensed clinical psychologist and certified clinical trauma specialist who believes that prioritizing your mental health should be a non-negotiable. She approaches therapy from a trauma informed and client centered perspective. It may be helpful to know a bit about me should you decide you’d like for us to work together, so let me share!
In this episode, Dr. Alice Pickering shares her expertise on the BIG conversations parents and parents to be should have with one another before baby arrives (and also some for once baby is here too!)
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Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Q&A: This Week's Top Sleep Questions! Apr 11, 2023

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Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:
- Is there such a thing as too long of a sleep sack?
- At what length should you cap naps at various ages?
- Advice for when baby falls asleep in the car, but they are due for a nap at home
- Baby only rocks and nursed to sleep and am terrified of sleep coaching... advice?
- When do children normally drop naps?

Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes!

Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Sleep Coaching with Twins (and Multiples) Apr 04, 2023

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This week's episode of Sleep Cues is all about TWINS (and multiples) - so if you are the parent of multiples or are expecting multiples, this one is for you! We have had experience sleep coaching with twins, triplets and yes - even quadruplets!
So this is our advice on handling multiples and sleep, for them and you! From room set up, when one is always a better sleeper, the 30 minute rule, can they be in the same room, and more!

Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Q&A: This Week's Top Sleep Questions! Mar 28, 2023

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Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! This week's questions highlight:
- Short naps and bedtime
- 3 to 2 nap transitions
- Out of town overnight for the first time
- Wake windows and bedtime
- Making adjustments with early wakes
Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes!

Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

How to Do Self Care (without the village to help us with our kids) with The Honest Mom Libby! Mar 21, 2023

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Today on Sleep Cues we have Libby Ward, the creator of @diaryofthehonestmom — a digital creator, speaker, and mental health advocate with a deep commitment to changing the motherhood narrative and breaking cycles of trauma. Every week, Libby’s content reaches millions of women around the world.
Libby talks about hard things she is so real and of course, honest about it. Among topics like mom guilt, default parenting, boundary setting... Libby focuses really closely on the topic and importance of Self Care. She is real and honest about the fact that we don't all have a village, so how do we do self care without a village to help us with our kids? That's what we're talking about today!

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VISIT diaryofanhonestmom.com
In this episode we've partnered with Obasan
Click HERE to save - We want your family sleeping great! Use code HAPPYSLEEP at checkout and receive a free wool moisture pad when you purchase a crib mattress! Head to obasan.com / obasan.ca and get great sleep started!

Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Q&A: This Week's Top Sleep Questions! Mar 14, 2023

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Answering this weeks Top 5 Questions! Here's a peak at this week's questions:
- Sleep coaching your little one with an older child too
- When to drop a nap
- Why we don't start with babies until 14 weeks of age
- Your schedule while sleep coaching
- Removing the swaddle
Have a question? Send it our way! We work hard answer everyone's questions and you might just hear yours on future episodes!

Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

Daylight Saving Time - Spring Forward Mar 07, 2023

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REPLAY of our DST episode!
Yes the words "time change" can be any parents nightmare, BUT this is the good time change I promise! Coming up is the beginning of Daylight Saving Time, or the spring forward and anything that could potentially throw off our little's schedule can be scary.
Now if you have an early waker, around 5:30am, you will now see that turn into 6:30am for you! But again, any schedule changes can be stressful so here are a few ways you can prepare and approach the Daylight Saving Time.
This episode is presented by Sleepout - Proudly Canadian, sustainably made premium blackout curtains. Use code HAPPYSLEEP10 for 10% off on their website.

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Erin Junker | Paediatric Sleep Consultant
Instagram @thehappysleepcompany
Website www.thehappysleepcompany.com

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