HeyJaredThe Baby Sleep Connection: Holistic help for tired, responsive parents who don't want to sleep train
Hello tired parents! If you feel exhausted and overwhelmed about your baby’s sleep and are trying to be gentle and responsive but aren’t clear how, welcome!In this podcast, we go beyond wake windows and bedtimes to help you understand your baby’s sleep so that you can find…
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 10, 2026
Latest episodes
Ep 77: Keeping It Simple: 3 Non-Negotiables for Easier Baby Sleep (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If I had to give you just three non-negotiables for better sleep, here is what they’d be: Ask yourself what your child needs in this moment . Not what you wish they needed. Not what you want them to need. But what they actually need. This one shift can help you move away from whackamole sleep strategies to preserving the relationship and settling your baby more easily. Keep it simple. So often, parents take the hard road because they think they are supposed to do sleep support a particular way.
Ep 76: How Important ARE Bedtime Routines? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Summer is drawing to an end, which brings many parents a desire to get back to “routine”, to get some predictability in their schedule, and to tighten up bedtimes. In this episode, Heather explores where routines and rhythms really come from (it’s not all on you as the parent!), and how to put in some sense of routine and predictability for yourself, even when your baby’s routine or rhythm is not well-established yet. Listen to this episode to learn how: Rhythm is a neurophysiological process th
Ep 75: The Core is Key: Movement, Milestones, and Infant Development with Shelley Mannell, Physiotherapist (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I’m joined today by Shelley Mannell, pediatric physiotherapist from St. Catharines, Ontario, and champion of the concept that core stability is key for movement, infant development, and emotional regulation. In this conversation, Shelley and I explore: How infant developmental milestones are just the beginning of the story Why core stability supports postural control, balance, and sensory processing How the recruitment of core muscles is as crucial for post-partum moms and babies alike The unint
Ep 74: Are We Over-Optimizing Baby Sleep? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Are we over-optimizing baby sleep and trying to make it “perfect”? Strategies that make sleep easier are worthwhile, but when we expect that if we simply “do it right”, we’ll reach the finish line with sleep, we forget that sleep is not a machine or circuit board that just has to be put together right to “work”. In this episode, Heather Boyd, pediatric occupational therapist and certified sleep coach explores optimizing strategies that support sleep while also taking the pressure off of thinking
Ep 73: The Pressure to Change Sleep (opens the original)
Read excerpt
When things aren’t where we think they should be, we can feel intense pressure to change something NOW. With your baby’s sleep, that might look like pressure to change your bedtime routine, night time responding, or nap schedule. And when change comes from worry, rather than from what you and your baby are ready for, the temptation is to throw every and all strategy at the situation, rather than doing what makes the most sense under the circumstances. If you’re feeling the pressure to change sle
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.