Stress, self-settling and emotional support
Baby stress, self-settling & emotional support – In a previous article, I mentioned the debate around cortisol – the stress and activity hormone – which measures the distress babies feel during a challenging experience. So, let’s look at this issue in the...
Types of memory babies experience
Baby memory – I ended my previous article promising to explore the ambiguous memory lane babies experience, shedding light on the profound impact they may exert on a child’s sleep in the future. First of all, there is no recollection of the...
Attachment and baby sleep training
Attachment & baby sleep training – Dr. Gabor Mate, the famous American-Hungarian psychologist whose research has been focused on trauma, addiction and child attachment thinks that: “the most essential template for the emotional development of the...
Attachment parenting
Attachment parenting What we hear most often today is the concept of attachment parenting – a notion interpreted in the early 2000s by the American paediatrician William Sears and his wife, nurse Martha Sears as a “parenting approach that emphasizes...
Theory of attachment
All about attachment Attachment seems to be a very sensitive topic, not only for babies, children or their parents or in connection with sleep, but for everybody. Because, unless you are a monk living remotely in the high mountains of Himalaya, attachment is a vital...
The Science behind Baby Sleep
You know me! I am deeply fond of the realm of sleep. I think sleep is a blessing, like the ability to forget and forgive. I am fascinated by how we drift away from a state of complete awareness into a light phase of drowsiness, and then we fall into a deep restorative...
How to assess a reliable study
Let’s talk about studies! Nowadays there is a study for almost everything out there, especially on controversial issues. If you are on one side you will find a study which supports that idea, but funny enough, if you have the exact opposite opinion, you will find a...
