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The 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 responsive ways to support it…without sleep training! The Baby Sleep Connection also explores all the layers connected to baby sleep --maternal mental health, nutrition, temperament, sensory processing, gentle/responsive

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Ep 40: How to Fit Naps in Without Destroying Bedtime

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2025/04/04

Naps can be a huge stress for parents. You might be asking yourself:What time should naps be? How long should they be? How do you drop a nap? And what on earth do you do if your baby falls asleep at 5pm? What will happen to bedtime?!In this episode, Heather shares strategies on managing the messy middle of changing naps to support night time sleep.Have a listen to explore:How to distribute naps over the day to land at a reasonable bedtimeHow to be flexible with nap length to manage a decent

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00:08:26

Ep 39 Strength-Based Sleep: Finding Your Baby's...

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2025/03/20

In February, I had the pleasure of speaking at Sleeposium 2025, an annual international conference for sleep professionals. I spoke about the importance of taking a STRENGTH-based approach when working with families.When families are seeking help around sleep, it’s not because things are going well –there are often some pretty big challenges and some significant hurdles. Parents feel exhausted and defeated. And it can feel like NOTHING is going well.Buried under all the challenges, however, are

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Ep 38: Baby Massage with Helen Thompson

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2025/03/13

Heather is joined today by Helen Thompson, Tasmania-based infant massage instructor with over 3 decades of experience working with babies, toddlers, and their families.In this episode, Helen helps break down:How to be “baby-led” when doing baby massageWhat signals a baby gives so you can tune into their cuesHow a gentle massage routine can help babies relax and settle into easier sleepThe role massage plays in building connection, bonding, and communicationHow parents benefit from infant massageAnd

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Ep 37: How to Spring Forward with the Time Change

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2025/03/06

It’s time for the Spring Forward time change!And that means losing a precious hour of sleep at a time in your parenting where every minute of sleep feels crucial.As much as I’d love us to be able to ditch the entire time change ritual every year, there are ways you can make this shift easier.In this episode, I share:How circadian rhythm drives sleep3 approaches you can take to manage the time changeWhat are zeitgebers and how do they help you manage the time change1 key reassuring take away that

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Ep 36: How to Vacation With Your Baby and Still Get...

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2025/02/27

March Break is coming up. For many families, that means travelling.But how do you go away and not see your baby's sleep fall apart?Listen to this episode for:4 perspectives on why (and how) sleep might not tank the way you expect it to3 practical strategies to tip the scales in favour of reasonable sleep AND a reasonable vacation1 story of how our vacation to Mexico didn’t look like we expected, but why it worked out anywayLooking for more? What you can do next:Subscribe to this podcast and share

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Ep 35: Redefining Motherhood for High Achievers and...

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2025/02/17

If you’ve ever listened to a podcast while checking email while waiting for the washer to stop so you can turn laundry over, oh, AND you’re also feeding your baby, have a listen to my interview with Lisa Carpenter.Lisa is an anti-performance performance coach –and if you’re an overthinking multi-tasker who hasn’t considered your own needs and is attempting to be a perfect parent, you need her perspectives on dismantling the ideas we have about motherhood, busyness, and parenting.In this interview,

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00:21:20

Ep 34: When You're Baby's Having a Hard Time...

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2025/02/09

In this episode, Heather Boyd, mom of 3, sleep coach, and occupational therapist dives into how to reframe your baby's difficult sleep. This is a throwback to episode 4 nearly 1 year ago!As an exhausted and overwhelmed parent, you are likely all too aware of how hard this is.Heather guides you to reflect on:🦋 Appreciating that your baby is doing the best they can at this particular time.🦋 An evolutionary perspective on what babies have needed (and what your baby needs) to sleep.🦋 Why

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00:21:42

Ep 33: Baby Sleep is Like a Shortbread Cookie

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2025/01/17

If you ate your share of cookies over the holiday AND were struggling with getting your baby to sleep, you'll love hearing how I compare baking cookies with baby sleep.Here's the short version: "Gather all the ingredients" is great advice, whether you're baking or trying to get your baby to sleep. When you have some experience you can go with the flow a bit more ("wing it" in the kitchen and the nursery!) One dish casseroles -there are ways to keep this

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00:54:28

Ep 32: Positive Discipline Through "Storyteaching"...

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2024/12/01

Parent coach, author, public speaker, and mom, Sarah R. Moore talks with Heather Boyd, Occupational Therapist and sleep coach about positive discipline, story teaching, and brain-based parenting.Sit in on this interview to learn: What is discipline?! And how has it been misrepresented? What is story teaching, and how does it support human development? Brain-based approaches to parenting and discipline How to use story teaching to help our children manage challenges Is there such a thing

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Ep 31: Parenting When Sick

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2024/11/22

Heather has been under the weather this past week, which has her reflecting on how she managed parenting responsibilities when she was sick when her kids were very young.Listen in as we move into cold and flu season for ways to manage acute illness when sick. Have you been sick and navigating parenting? What helped you through? In this episode Heather talks about: Getting comfortable with not controlling “all the things”. How perfection and planning can get in the way. Being sick forces

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00:16:44

Ep 30: Six Questions to Ask Yourself When Your Baby's...

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2024/11/16

Heather Boyd, occupational therapist and mom of three, runs through 6 questions she recommends you ask yourself when your baby's sleep is going through a sticky stage. So often, there's an easier way within reach, and these 6 questions can help you find it.If sleep is tricky, ask yourself the following 4 questions: What works best for helping my baby fall asleep? Am I resisting what works best because I’m trying to follow someone else’s “rules” about how to help my baby sleep? What cues are

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Ep 29: Mindful Approaches to Lactation with Victoria...

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2024/11/07

Heather Boyd, occupational therapist and sleep coach, talks to Niagara IBCLC, Victoria Beninger, about the ways she supports new parents with feeding plans, goals, and the doubt and stress that new moms often carry. We also talk about stress as a hidden impact on milk supply. When there are so many products and lactation cookie recipes on line to increase milk supply, it’s a refreshing idea that we’ve got tools already inside us to support breastfeeding.Listen in as we talk about: A trend

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Ep 28: Busting 5 Baby Sleep Myths

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2024/10/31

Heather Boyd, mom of 3, Occupational Therapist, and certified Infant & Family Sleep Specialist shares 5 common sleep myths (and why they aren’t true).Listen in to hear about: “Junk sleep”: what’s the deal with sleeping in arms or falling asleep in the car? Does it “count” as sleep? Humans as carry mammals: how does this impact how we can help our babies sleep? Why looking to your baby for “signs” that what you’re doing is working is the best way to avoid the trap of baby sleep myths

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Ep 27: Sleep, Rest, & Support: Are You Cheating...

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2024/10/21

Heather Boyd, mom of 3, Occupational Therapist, and certified Infant & Family Sleep Specialist shares 3 ways parents tend to cheat themselves out of wellness when their baby isn't sleeping long stretches and needs lots of support to sleep. Listen in to hear: Where Heather sees most parents cheating themselves out of much needed sleep How to balance getting more sleep AND connecting with your partner or doing the things on your “to do” list When, generally, the most effective time is to

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Ep 26: The 2 Keys to Supporting Your Baby's Sleep

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2024/10/10

Heather Boyd, Occupational Therapist and sleep coach shares two key perspectives in making your baby’s sleep make sense.Listen in to learn: The two key perspectives that support sleep: sleep development, and understanding your baby’s needs Why sleep milestones should be approached more like the milestone of walking What important brain function allows adults to manage upset more easily than babies (and why knowing this matters The role that parents play in supporting brain maturation

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Ep 25: The Feeding Journey with Karla Masse, IBCLC

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2024/10/03

Heather Boyd, Occupational Therapist and sleep coach, talks with Karla Masse, IBCLC and mom of 6 about her role as a home visiting lactation consultant in Niagara, OntarioIn this episode you’ll hear about: Karla’s journey that led her to become an IBCLC Perspectives on integrative approaches to lactation support Feeding “goals” versus “expectations” Karla’s passion for helping parents rediscover the foundations of caring for their baby, including trusting their bodies The tongue as an

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Ep 24: You Don't Need to Leave Your Baby to Cry

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2024/09/26

If you’ve felt the pressure to leave your baby in their bedroom, alone, to fall asleep (despite it going against your instincts), or you’re just discovering that maybe there’s an alternative to leaving your baby to cry, listen in on this episode as Heather Boyd, occupational therapist, sleep coach, and mom of 3, explores why not crying-it-out is so important.In this episode you’ll hear Heather talk about: Four reasons why it’s worth shifting from cry-it-out to responsive parenting Four

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Ep 23: Resistance is Futile: Why Meeting Your Baby's...

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2024/09/19

If you’ve been trying to fit a square peg baby into a round hole based on what you’ve been told about sleep, listen to this week’s episode as Heather Boyd, O.T. and Certified Infant & Family Sleep Specialist delves into ways to reduce some of the friction between what you’re trying to shape and how you can lean into the need instead, to get easier sleep.In this episode, Heather covers: The 3 questions to ask yourself that immediately drops some of the resistance you might have around helping

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Ep 22: Mindfulness, The Nervous System, & Sleep with...

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2024/09/12

Heather Boyd speaks with Dr. Nerina Ramlakhan, a physiologist and sleep therapist with a passion for supporting people and organizations using Western medicine, Eastern philosophy, consciousness, evolution, and feelings of safety for our nervous systems.In this episode, Dr. Nerina and Heather explore: How our nervous systems developed through evolution to support surviving and thriving. The resourcefulness of our nervous systems to protect us through freezing, fighting or fleeing (sympathetic

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Ep 21: How to Hire a Sleep Coach

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2024/09/05

It's hard enough managing the sleep deprivation and deluge of information about what you SHOULD be doing to support your baby's sleep.But now you’ve got to google “sleep coach” and figure out what coach you should pay money to to support you? In this episode, Heather Boyd explains how to find a coach who’s right for you (even if you’re looking for something different than what she offers as a coach), and how to move from frozen and overwhelmed to seeking support that can help you move

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