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What To Do About Sleep When A Cold Strikes
Routines

What To Do About Sleep When A Cold Strikes

Grab your tissues and nasal aspirators! It’s the most sniffly time of the year. Like most parents, the thought of cold season probably strikes fear in your heart. For good reason. Infants can get ...
Unusual Ways to Get Babies to Sleep
Routines

Unusual Ways to Get Babies to Sleep

When your baby’s bedtime routine isn’t working — that is, when they’re keeping up the neighborhood, or at least mom, dad, siblings and the family pet — it can help to have a backup plan. You aren’t...
The Importance of Light and Dark
Routines

The Importance of Light and Dark

If there’s one thing that posting photos to social media has taught us it’s that lighting is everything (what on earth did we do before filters?). It’s the same thing with your baby’s sleep. Light...
5 Best Ways For New Dads to Get Involved — And Stay Involved — With Their Kids From the Start
Health & Wellness

5 Best Ways For New Dads to Get Involved — And Stay Involved — With Their Kids From the Start

Unfortunately, dads aren’t always seen as being as crucial to infants’ lives as their mothers are. But luckily for dads who want to be there for (almost) every bedtime, every giggle and burp, there...
Meet Nanit’s Stand
Nanit News

Meet Nanit’s Stand

When we set out to create the world’s smartest baby monitor, we threw ourselves into research. That meant talking to parents one-on-one and examining how they used their current monitors. Right awa...
baby sleeping pjs
Routines

Ask a Sleep Expert: Why Did My Baby Stop Sleeping Through the Night?

In our new series “Ask a Sleep Expert,” we pose a question from a reader to pediatric sleep consultant Ingrid Prueher, founder of BabySleepWhisperer.com, and get her expert insight and advice. “My...
5 Totally Genius Dad Sleep Hacks
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5 Totally Genius Dad Sleep Hacks

Dads aren’t just the innovators behind tree houses, pillow forts and, um, “unique” hair-braiding creations. They’re also pretty genius when it comes to getting their little ones to fall asleep (cas...
The secret to raising an independent sleeper baby sleeping in crib
Routines

The Secret to Raising an Independent Sleeper

The term independent is often used to describe things like countries, and college students (well, sometimes), but babies are rarely thrown into that mix, being best known for their tendency to need...
Is Your Baby Getting Enough Sleep?
Routines

Is Your Baby Getting Enough Sleep?

You’d do anything for your baby when it comes to sleep. Pull an all-nighter when a cold strikes, navigate your way to the crib in total darkness, dress in matching pastel footed pajamas (okay, that...
What to Pack When Traveling with Baby
Lifestyle

What to Pack When Traveling with Baby

The thought of traveling with baby might make you want to run and hide under the kitchen table. All those time zone changes, bulky suitcases and sketchy rest stops. If only your baby came with a pe...
baby monitor safety
Nanit News

What Moms and Dads Are Saying About Nanit

By now you’ve probably read up on Nanit and you might be thinking, “Okay, this seems a little too good to be true. Kind of like calorie-free cheesecake.” We’re hear to tell you what parents around ...
9 Ways Nanit Makes Life Easier for Parents
Nanit News

9 Ways Nanit Makes Life Easier for Parents

Here at Nanit, we’re all about parents. (Let’s just say if we were an 80’s hair band, we’d have your name tattooed all over our arms.) Our baby monitor was designed with families in mind from day o...
The Vision and Technology Behind Nanit
Nanit News

The Vision and Technology Behind Nanit

Now that Nanit has arrived you might be wondering about some things. For starters, where did Nanit come from? How is it unlike other baby monitors out there? And just how does it understand sleep w...
newborn sleep myths
Routines

Newborn Sleep Myths: Fact vs Fiction

Nowadays, doesn’t it seem like everyone has something to say about babies and sleep? From your boss’s third cousin’s Swedish nanny to that really cool dad at the park who’s never known the horror o...
How Much Sleep Do Babies Need
Routines

How Much Sleep Do Babies Really Need?

It’s a question that can keep you up at night, even rudely interrupt your favorite dream about baby’s soul-stirring Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech – what exactly is the right amount of sleep f...
Newborn Sleep Tips
Routines

7 Newborn Sleep Tips from the Baby Sleep Whisperer

If we had a genie’s lamp, “better sleep for everyone in the family” would definitely be at the top of our wish list. But until that magical day arrives, we did the next best thing. We spoke to a re...
How To Create a Bedtime Routine for Your Newborn
Routines

How To Create a Bedtime Routine for Your Newborn

Here at Nanit, we’re dedicated to revolutionizing the way babies sleep by putting amazing technology in the hands of parents everywhere. We’re moms, dads and sleep fans ourselves, so we get that sl...