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Solving bedtime battles tips for parents with toddlers and school aged children
Growth & Milestones Toddler sleep issues: 5 signs and how to handle them
Here are some scientifically-backed techniques that can make bedtime routines with your young child or toddler less challenging, thereby enhancing the quality of sleep for the entire family. 
Daylight Saving survival guide
Sleep Daylight Saving survival guide
While the Daylight Saving time change can be a challenge for some children, we’re here to guide you through adjusting your baby’s sleep schedule for Daylight Saving to make it as easy as possible,...
The 6 month sleep regression: What it is and how to get through it
Growth & Milestones The 6 month sleep regression: What it is and how to get through it
You might have heard your parent-friends grumble about spending weeks slogging through sleepless nights around their baby’s four month birthday, adjusting routines, creating an ideal sleep sanctua...
transition baby to crib
Sleep How To Transition Baby To Crib
As a new parent, you have probably had the lovely daydream of looking down at your tiny bundle of joy in cute pajamas sleeping peacefully in a crib with a smile tugging on your baby’s lips. You mig...
Sleep Disorders and Autism: What You Need to Know
Growth & Milestones Sleep Disorders and Autism: What You Need to Know
April is World Autism Month, and at Nanit, we consider it part of our mission to facilitate better research and improve understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—more specifically, how ASD im...
Why Is Sleep So Important for My Child's Growth and Development?
Growth & Milestones Why Is Sleep So Important for My Child's Growth and Development?
Sleep is as imperative as nutrition and exercise when it comes child growth and development. However, sleep has often been absent in children’s health messaging. When sleep is taken into account, t...
6 Tips from a Baby Safety Expert to Keep Your Baby Safe
Sleep 6 Tips from a Baby Safety Expert to Keep Your Baby Safe
While we, as parents, should absolutely take a proactive approach when it comes to preventing the most common and most fatal types of injuries for babies, many other safety measures can be consider...
Safe Sleep Environment
Registry How to Create a Safe Sleep Environment for Your Newborn
Safe Sleep: Tips for a Secure and Comfortable Sleep Environment for Your Baby
Sleep Safe Sleep: Tips for a Secure and Comfortable Sleep Environment for Your Baby
Creating a safe sleep space for your baby We’re the kind of people who notice everything, from trends in sleep data to the slightly crooked diplomas hanging on our favorite doctor’s office wall. We...
Nighttime Diaper Changes — How Often Should You Change Your Baby’s Diaper at Night?
Health & Wellness How Often to Change a Diaper: Nighttime vs Daytime Diaper Changes
Learn how often to change a diaper with our essential diaper-changing tips for day and night, ensuring your baby stays dry, comfortable, and sleeps soundly.
Baby Sleep Basics
Sleep Baby Sleep Basics
Many parents experience sleep struggles with their little ones. Sleep struggles include taking a long time to get baby to fall asleep, short 40 minute naps, frequent night waking and early morning ...
Tips for Happy and Long Naps for Newborns to Toddlers
Sleep Tips for Happy and Long Naps for Newborns to Toddlers
When you have a baby, everyone talks about sleeping through the night as the holy grail of sleep. But as any parent holding a fussy, overtired infant in her arms quickly learns: daytime sleep is es...
4 Month Sleep Regression: Why It Happens & Tips to Survive It
Growth & Milestones 4 Month Sleep Regression: Why It Happens & Tips to Survive It
Just as you’re emerging from the newborn haze and your baby is sleeping for longer stretches during the ni...
5 Newborn Sleep Tips for Exhausted New Parents
Sleep 5 Newborn Sleep Tips for Exhausted New Parents
Your baby will learn a lot from you over the years. Perhaps the first and most important skill you’ll teach...
Baby dreaming
Sleep What in the World Is Your Baby Dreaming About?
Babies spend a lot of their days and, hopefully!, nights sleeping, which begs the question – do they spend...
The Science Behind Getting Your Baby A Better Night's Sleep
Sleep The Science Behind Getting Your Baby A Better Night's Sleep
better sleep, now included
Nanit News Better Sleep, Now Included.
When we started Nanit three years ago, it was our vision to make better sleep accessible for parents and babies everywhere. Today, we took a major step towards making it a reality. We’re proud to a...
Growth & Milestones The 10 Month Sleep Regression
Getting your baby to have a good night’s rest is one major goal of every parent, but things (like the 10 month sleep regression) just seem to get in the way of good sleep at every turn. Sleepless n...
Growth & Milestones The 9 Month Sleep Regression
Being a new parent can be pretty overwhelming during the first year of your baby’s life. There is so much to get used to with 4 month sleep regression, teething and growth spurts. You finally devel...
The 8 Month Sleep Regression
Growth & Milestones The 8 Month Sleep Regression
By the time your child reaches the final quarter of their first year you’ll hopefully have a pro sleeper on your hands, or even better, a pro sleeper snoozing in their own bed. While there are no m...
Newborn Sleeping Too Much?
Sleep Newborn Sleeping Too Much?
Newborns typically sleep an average of 16 to 20 hours a day, leaving many parents wondering “is my baby sleeping too much?” or "why does my newborn sleep so much?" Because the new parent mind can q...
baby waking up early
Sleep Baby Waking up Too Early?
If you are successfully getting your baby to fall asleep and to stay asleep for several hours each night — congrats! — you’re doing pretty well in the war on sleep. Give yourself a pat on your wear...
When to start sleep training baby in crib
Sleep When to Start Sleep Training - Best Practices From a Sleep Trainer
Wondering to start sleep training your baby? Dive into circadian rhythms, sleep routines, and our expert techniques for 3-month-olds today.
4-Month Sleep Regression
Growth & Milestones The 4 Month Sleep Regression (or Progression!)
So, your little angel who slept like a teenager for the first three months of their life is now sleeping like a baby – aka, waking up every few hours and popping their eyes open at the drop of a pe...