Many parents have concerns related to their baby's night-time sleep. Sleep deprivation is a serious problem for many parents of infants, and turning to sleep trainers who promise quick solutions, may seem like the best, and sometimes only, option. In this article, I clarify what sleep training is, I give a brief explanation of the biology behind infant sleep and I offer some alternative ways to improve sleep in early parenthood. What is sleep training? Sleep training is based

Bed-sharing means that the baby sleeps in the same bed as the parent or parents. Despite prevailing recommendations to avoid bed-sharing in the first three months of a baby's life, many parents opt for it to enhance family sleep. The innate sense of security that comes with keeping your baby close is hard to ignore. Interestingly, this closeness echoes an evolutionary norm – mothers across cultures slept with their babies until the early 1900s. The trend of separating infants