Your baby fights the morning nap, then nods off in the car at 11:40 when you never planned it. The afternoon nap keeps drifting later, bedtime is sliding with it, and everyone has a different opinion on whether it's time. Some say yes. Others say far too soon.

The truth is that there is no date on a calendar, and the signs can look very similar to other things going on at this age.

In this blog: how to tell the difference, how to ease the change without a stopwatch, and what to do about bedtime while it settles.

Six months in, and your baby's sleep has changed. Naps are shorter, nights are busier, and the internet has a name for it.

Along with the name comes some very confident advice, usually involving the words "perfect age" and "sleep train". Both deserve a closer look, because the name doesn't hold up and the advice that follows it rests on some shaky assumptions.

In this blog: what is really behind sleep changes at six months, what the research says about night waking at this age, and what actually helps, without leaving your baby to work it out alone.

The clocks go back at 2am on Sunday 25 October, and your baby's body clock won't have been told.

That "extra hour" often turns into a 5am wake-up, which is why this weekend gets dreaded by parents who finally have a rhythm that mostly works.

The good news is that it's temporary, not a setback, and you have more than one sensible way to handle it.

In this blog, I'm walking through all four options, what to do if early starts arrive anyway, and what actually helps whichever you choose.

Teething gets blamed for an awful lot of broken sleep, and sometimes it really is the reason your baby is waking more. But if sleep has been rough for weeks, there may be more going on than sore gums alone.

In this blog, I look at what teething-related sleep disruption tends to look like, the signs that teeth may be causing discomfort, what can help, how long it usually lasts, and when it’s worth looking more widely at your baby’s sleep.

There’s no pressure to change how you settle your baby, and no assumption that a few difficult nights mean you need to start doing anything differently.

Why does a baby who clearly needs sleep sometimes seem to get a sudden second wind at bedtime? And does it really mean they’re “overtired”? 

In this blog, I’m unpacking what that wired, wriggly bedtime behaviour can actually tell us, why hyper behaviour on its own doesn’t tell us what’s causing the struggle, and how sleep pressure, stimulation and temperament can all play a part. 

The aim is to help you look at the bigger picture and work out what your baby might actually need, rather than assuming one difficult bedtime means you’ve somehow got it wrong.

Nobody quite warns you that the first weeks can feel as though your baby hasn't noticed they've been born. They sleep beautifully on you, then wake the moment they are put down. Nights are scattered, evenings become a loop of feeding and fussing, and someone has probably warned you about making a rod for your own back.

The fourth trimester explains why so much of this happens.

Here is what it means for your newborn's sleep, what actually helps and how to make these early weeks safer and more manageable without trying to force a routine your baby is not ready for.

If everyone around you seems to have already moved their baby into their own room, the missing piece isn't a faster timeline. It's the six-month guidance much of that advice skips over entirely.

In this blog, I walk through what the guidance actually says, what we know about babies sleeping apart versus together, how to decide when the time feels right for your family, and how to make the move once it does.

Your newborn slept beautifully all afternoon. Then 2am arrived and suddenly they’re wide awake, chatting, kicking and ready to start the day while you’re desperate to close your eyes.

It can feel baffling, and perhaps a little personal, as though your baby has decided night is for socialising. They haven’t. Their body clock is still developing, and it won’t work like yours for a while yet.

In this blog, I explain why newborns sleep around the clock and what can help them begin to recognise the difference between day and night.

"But she only falls asleep fed, or held, or on me. How is nursery ever going to manage that?"

It's one of the questions I hear most from parents about to start nursery, often paired with a quiet countdown of exactly how many weeks of leave are left to "sort it" before returning to work. There isn't a deadline, and there was never anything to sort.

In this blog, I explain why your baby is far better at adapting to different people than you'd think, why naps may still go a bit rogue at first regardless, and why a room full of other sleeping babies can help far more than you'd expect.

Whether your baby's sleep has suddenly fallen apart around four months, or they've never really settled for long and this just feels like the moment everyone expects that to change, you've probably already heard the word regression, and probably heard sleep training mentioned in the same breath, as though four months is some kind of deadline. It isn't.

What's changing in your baby's sleep right now has a real biological explanation, and understanding it changes what this phase actually asks of you, not what it demands you do differently.

In this blog, I explain why sleep shifts so much around four months, why feeding, rocking and contact naps aren't the problem, and what actually helps you get through it without sleep training.

If you've followed every piece of sleep advice to the letter and your baby still won't sleep, the missing piece isn't a better method. It's temperament.

Standard sleep advice is written for the roughly eight in ten babies who are adaptable, regular, and easygoing about change. If your baby is one of the other two in ten, born more sensitive, slow to adapt, or intensely persistent, that same advice was never going to work, no matter how carefully you followed it.

In this blog, I walk through the nine temperament traits and how each one shapes sleep, why mainstream tips quietly assume an adaptable baby, and what actually helps when your baby needs a different approach entirely.

Almost every family I work with says some version of the same thing: "We never planned to bedshare, but here we are." It usually starts at 3am, not as a decision but as survival. And because it wasn't planned, most parents never got the chance to make it safer first.

This blog is not a lecture about what you should have done differently. It is a clear, practical guide to co-sleeping safely in the UK, built around the fact that the real risk isn't sharing a bed with your baby. It's doing it without a plan, in the dark, half-asleep, working it out as you go.

If your baby fights sleep like it's a personal insult, you've probably been told it's overtiredness.

Stretch them too far and you'll pay for it, apparently. But for some babies, that's not the whole story. These are the babies who notice everything. The door opening two rooms away. The dog sighing downstairs. You, even thinking about leaving.

People call them "FOMO babies," and once you understand why, bedtime stops feeling like a battle you're losing.

In this blog, I explain what's actually happening in a highly alert baby's nervous system, why standard sleep advice often misses them completely, and what actually helps, depending on whether your baby needs calming down or winding down.

If your baby will sleep anywhere except the cot, you have not created a problem. You have a baby whose nervous system is doing exactly what it is designed to do.

In this blog I explain why some babies resist the cot so strongly, what temperament has to do with it, and what actually helps, including why the transition doesn't have to be all or nothing.

Your baby is finally down. You've crept out. You've barely exhaled. And then they're awake again - 40 minutes later, bright-eyed, as if bedtime was just a warm-up.

This is called a false start, and it's one of the most common sleep frustrations parents bring to me. It also tends to be one of the most misunderstood - because while it looks like a settling problem, the cause is almost always earlier in the day than the bedtime itself.

In this blog I explain the biology behind why false starts happen, walk through the most common causes, and share what actually moves the needle - without rigid schedules or stressful overhauls.

If your baby is waking every hour and you've found yourself searching this at 2am, you're not doing something wrong. But there are reasons this is happening, and they're not always the ones you've been told.

In this blog, I share what I actually look at when a family comes to me with hourly waking. Not the usual checklist, but the bigger picture: total sleep across 24 hours, the morning anchor, temperament, sensory needs, and the physical things worth ruling out. I also talk about sensitive babies and why the standard advice so often makes things harder for them, not easier.

Been told to "just be consistent" with your baby's bedtime routine? You've probably felt the quiet pressure every time something doesn't go to plan. 

The idea that consistency is the key to better baby sleep is everywhere. And there's a kernel of truth in it. But the version most parents are handed isn't what the biology actually needs.

In this blog, I explain why rigid rule-following often makes the pressure worse rather than the sleep better, and what actually supports settled nights for your baby and your whole family.

If your baby sleeps soundly on you but wakes the moment you attempt a transfer, you have not created a problem. You have a baby whose nervous system is working exactly as it is designed to.

In this blog, I explore why contact napping is biologically normal rather than a habit to be broken, why some babies are simply harder to put down than others, and whether sleeping on you is really causing frequent night waking - because usually, it isn't.

I also look at how to make gentle changes if contact napping has started to feel unsustainable, without pressure and without swinging to the opposite extreme.

When your baby is crying, flailing, wired, or completely refusing to sleep, you have probably been told they are overtired. It is one of those phrases that gets thrown around constantly in parenting spaces.

But I do not use it. Not because tiredness is not real. I don’t use it because it is not an accurate term, it is not helpful, and it almost always comes loaded with an implication that you missed something.

This blog will guide you in how you respond in those hard moments, what you can stop blaming yourself for, and what actually helps.

If your baby is wide awake at 3am, properly alert and showing no signs of going back to sleep, it can feel completely baffling. These middle of the night wake ups are one of the most common and most confusing parts of baby sleep, and they are usually shaped by biology rather than behaviour. 

In this blog, I explain why 3am is the most fragile part of the night, how sleep pressure and your baby’s body clock are shaping those early hours, and what actually makes a difference.

Not quick fixes or stricter schedules, but a clearer understanding of what is really going on, and small, realistic adjustments that support the whole picture.