Can solid food have an impact on your baby’s sleep?
By Marita Bezuidenhout – Owner of Tummies Full of Love The path you take now will most likely impact your child’s life later on… If your baby is indeed ready to start their solid food journey, the most wonderful adventure awaits you and your little bundle of joy. The excitement and eagerness with which your […]
Bedtime and naptime routines and rituals for Toddlers
By Anneri van Rooyen Bedtime routines and rituals for children are key factors in the promotion of not only healthy sleep, but also of broad development and wellbeing in early childhood. Sleep has a profound impact on our children’s health and wellbeing, and it impacts multiple aspects of early childhood development and it is thus […]
Ways to keep healthy during lockdown
By Natascha Olivier – Dietician and Lactation Consultant The Covid-19 virus and accompanying lockdown has left us with many questions and uncertainties, and has resulted in numerous changes in routine for us. You can’t (shouldn’t) go grocery shopping on a daily basis, and you are confined to your home and garden. Below are a few […]
How to deal with Fear, Stress and Anxiety during Covid-19
By Belinda Pieterse – Wellness Counsellor en Transformation Life Coach The times we are in right now are challenging and uncertain. Many of us are overwhelmed with fear, stress and anxiety. We are experiencing a loss of control and some of us even feel hopeless. It is normal to feel the fear, stress and anxiety […]
Improving your stress through sleep
By Jolandi Becker – MD of Good Night I think we can all agree that the last couple of days has resulted in quite an unexpected mix of feelings for many of us. Ups-and-downs from anxiety, as well as stress, anger and then also periods of calm (or at least trying to convince yourself that […]
Weighted Blankets – the low down
By Jolandi Becker – MD of Good Night The popularity of weighted blankest has increased in the last couple of years. However, these blankets have been around for quite some time, especially in the Occupational Therapy field. What is a weighted blanket? It is pretty much exactly what it says. It is a blanket that […]
When Nutrition Can Influence Sleep
By Jolandi Becker – MD of Good Night As sleep consultants we rarely advise on nutritional problems and always refer our clients to registered dieticians when we do pick up on problems as we are sleep experts after all and NOT feeding experts. However, when we’re working together with parents who have smaller babies, we […]
The Joy of two
By Megan Heuer – Good Night Consultant Most people warned me how difficult it was going to be, adjusting from one child to two and how they wished they had known how challenging the change would be (And then feel compelled to share this information with me so that I would be prepared!). I am not sure […]
Sleep Regressions
By Jolandi Becker – MD of Good Night Sleep regressions can be quite challenging for both parents and little ones. There are many regressions and some babies and toddlers might experience one or two instances of poorer sleep as they grow and very rarely some children experience all phases of sleep regression. Sleep regression also varies […]
Sleep training is Voldemort
By Jolandi Becker – MD of Good Night Once again recently I came face-to-face with the question of whether I am for or against sleep training (working in the baby and sleep industry this seems to come up quite often). And once again my answer was, as always, I am not for sleep training I […]