Lucy Wolfe

It’s that time of year again. Come the weekend, it’s time to once again set the clocks – as we ‘spring forward’ by an hour at 1 AM Sunday morning. If you are a parent, this might, of course, send you into a bit of a blind panic, worrying what this time change is going […]

6 years ago

Ultimately most babies will sleep in a conventional cot, but generally not until they are six months plus, as a cot may be too big a space at the beginning. For nighttime and even some daytime sleep, the best options are probably a Moses basket or a crib that can be placed next to or […]

9 years ago

Don’t underestimate the power of the bedtime routine; a predictable sequence of events that happen in the same order, at around the same time and in the same place every night. It is that simple, says Lucy Wolfe. The premise of the bedtime routine is to bridge the gap between wakefulness and time for sleep […]

10 years ago

Daytime sleep has a large controlling impact on your child’s ability to sleep well overnight. The dynamic between each daytime sleep is also important. Limiting your child’s daytime sleep to improve nighttime sleep may sometimes work to your advantage, but in my experience, it may only improve the nighttime presentation in the short term and […]

10 years ago

Your child’s sleep is a work in progress. It requires upkeep and maintenance and refining as they transition through the various stages of childhood. It is not unusual for me to hear from a parent that their dream sleeper has turned into a awful sleeper. My first question will be ‘What has changed?’, and although […]

10 years ago