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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...
Safe Sleep Environment
Safe Sleep

How to Create a Safe Sleep Environment for Your Newborn

Safe Sleep
Safe Sleep

Safe Sleep

Do’s and Don’ts for Safe Sleep 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 studied ma...
Nighttime Diaper Changes — How Often Should You Change Your Baby’s Diaper at Night?
Health & Wellness

Nighttime Diaper Changes — How Often Should You Change Your Baby’s Diaper at Night?

How Often Should You Change Your Baby’s Diaper at Night? Sleep comes at a premium for you and your baby. That’s why you might find yourself asking this question in the middle of the night: Do I nee...
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
Routines

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...
4 Tips for Winding Down at Night
Health & Wellness

4 Tips for Winding Down at Night

As parents of little ones we spend A LOT of time thinking about our baby’s sleep routines: what’s working, what’s not, how to create the perfect sleep environment and on and on. During that first ...
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
Routines

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?
Routines

Newborn Sleeping Too Much?

Newborns typically sleep an average of 16 to 20 hours a day, leaving many parents wondering “is my newborn sleeping too much?” Because the new parent mind can quickly fall down the rabbit hole of ...
baby waking up early
Routines

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

If your baby sleeping for more than two hours at a time is as rare as $100,000 magically appearing in your bank account, you might be wondering when to start sleep training. But, experts recommend...
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...
Sleep Training Methods & Techniques: A Breakdown
Sleep

Sleep Training Methods & Techniques: A Breakdown

By now you’ve probably heard all about sleep training. After all, it’s one of the most hotly debated sleep topics in the baby world (right up there with whose kid really looks the cutest in footed ...