Parenting, Sleep and Mental Health
– By Lucy Shrimpton. Sleep & Wellbeing Expert Studies have found that parents of young children, especially those aged 0-5 years, experience a significant reduction in sleep quality. On average, new parents lose about 109 minutes of sleep per night during the first year after their child’s birth. Sleep deprivation is especially acute during the […]
Sleep Tips For The Autumn Clock Change
Clock changes. Oh, they’re a pain, aren’t they? They can absolutely wreak havoc on our bodies and on our brains – even that one hour, it has an effect. I’m going to start off today by giving you the first approach that I recommend for handling this clock change so that we can try to […]
Vacation Sleep Tips For Kids
The last couple of blogs posts have been about travel with babies and children, in this miniseries I am sharing as much as I can with you to make the journey easier, to make your time away more enjoyable and so that sleep doesn’t just become a complete disaster. Next up is my sleep tips […]
Kids Sleep And Time Zones
This blog is the next in the minim series on traveling with babies and children, we’re focusing on time zones and the tips for getting through the change of time zones, on the way there, when you come back, how you can manage them whilst you’re away. The number one tip I want to give […]
Tips For Travel With Children
In this blog I’m going to be giving you some amazing tips for when you travel with your children, and specifically in this post, focusing on the journey itself. I’m going to give you the three best things that you can think about when it comes to traveling with children. The three things that I […]
How Sleep Is Affected By The Clocks Going Forward
How did the spring clock change go? How has it been with that one hour forward that the clocks just did to us? Have you managed to get over that yet? Are you feeling like you’re on track with the new time and feeling refreshed by spring, or are you a walking zombie and feeling […]
Spring Clock Change 2022
We have got the strategies for to help you and your little ones be able to handle the spring clock change where the clocks go forward an hour. We are going to recap my three preferred approaches that I believe can help any one of you to get your little one sleeping soundly through this […]
Bedtime Clock Change Tips For Kids
When the clocks go forward and we spring forward an hour, how do we get the best from our little ones sleep and how do we avoid them completely coming off track and not being able to sleep very well, this is Part 3 of the Clock Change miniseries and I am giving you my […]
Adjusting Sleep With Clocks Going Forward
This week I am continuing the March miniseries, on the different tips and strategies for managing the clock changes, particularly the clock change where we spring forward and the clocks go forward by an hour. So how can we help our little ones adjust when the clocks go forward an hour? Last week we went […]
Clock Changes and Baby Sleep
In this week’s blog post I am going to be talking all about clock changes and baby sleep, I’ll share with you different strategies and different tips for how you can manage the clock changes, particularly this time, the spring forward clock change, where the clocks go forward by one hour, focusing on how you […]
Sleep And Weight Loss: How To Lose Weight Faster With Sleep
Hi guys. We are talking all about weight loss and sleep. How is sleep connected to your weight loss or weight gain? Let’s explore this. Okay. So sleep and weight loss or weight gain, what’s the connection? As if it’s not hard enough when you’re a new mom and you’ve obviously got the extra baby […]
Sleep And Immunity: How To Boost & Improve Your Immune System With Sleep
Sleep helps us to restore ourselves physically. For as long as we can remember, we’ve been advised to rest when we’re unwell. We replenish our fighter cells. And so this is like building up and strengthening our little inner army so that they are ready to fight when we need them. Sleep has been shown […]
