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Brand New Little People

Dr Fallon Cook & Dr Laura Conway (PhD"s, Sleep Practitioners)

Welcome to the ultimate podcast for parents navigating the early stages of parenting, with a special focus on vital aspects like sleep, settling, and crying. As passionate hosts and holders of PhD’s in early child development, we"re Dr. Fallon Cook and Dr. Laura Conway, also known as paediatric sleep practitioners at Infant Sleep Australia and co-founders of the ground-breaking online paediatric sleep program, Sombelle. Come with us as we delve into the complexities of early parenting,

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Episode 85: Strong-willed toddlers

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2025/03/03

Imagine if your toddler’s bedtime often took longer than 3 hours 😥Imagine they refuse to sleep in their cot, will only fall asleep if breastfed, and every approach you’ve previously tried simply hasn’t ‘stuck.’ Sounds pretty awful doesn’t it? 😔 This week we received an email from Michelle, a parent who is currently battling this exact situation with her toddler. Michelle desperately wants her toddler to sleep in his cot, but is worried about how much he might push back against any

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Episode 84: Cot Shenanigans

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2025/02/24

Has your baby or toddler suddenly startedto sit or stand in their cot? Have easy bedtimes evaporated in to thin air as you struggle to get your little one to stay lying down long enough to fall asleep? 😵‍💫If this is you, don’t worry. You’re encountering a very common hurdle but it can be overcome. In this episode, you’ll learn what to do when your little one starts to practice their new skills in their cot,and how to get them falling asleep quickly again 🙌🏽 ☕️ Love our work? Buy us a

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Episode 83: Does darkness help sleep?

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2025/02/17

You’ve probably heard some advice suggesting that babies and toddlers must sleep in a dark room…. and then moments later heard the exact opposite – that all babies need to learn how to sleep in a brightly lit, noisy room. 😵‍💫 So who’s right? Our dedicated listeners won’t be surprised to hear that the answer depends a little bit on your individual child. As always, there are shades of grey between the polarising views on this topic 🌚 In this week’s episode you’ll learn how to tell if your

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Episode 82: Your Pep Talk

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2025/02/10

When your baby or toddler isn’t sleeping well and you’re filled with dread at the thought of facing another broken night, it can feel like you are so deep down in the trenches that you might never climb out 😥When broken sleep stretches across weeks, months, or even years, it’s easy to feel like better nights are just SO far away. But they are not. 😎 Even with the most challenging, ingrained, persistent sleep difficulties, with the right plan in place it's likely you’ll begin to see some

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Episode 81: Toddler Sleep During Big Life Changes

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2025/02/03

In this episode of Brand New Little People, Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) discuss how you can help your toddler adjust to big life changes, with a specific focus on protecting their sleep.Do toddlers who sleep through the night have interrupted sleep after a new baby arrives?What about moving house with a toddler – how do I avoid hiccups with their sleep during such a big change? My toddler has never fallen asleep without me there to settle them and now they’re

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Episode 80: The Perfect Nap

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2025/01/21

In our sleep clinic it’s common to hear parents say they’re worried about their baby or toddler’s naps. And we completely understand why. Everyone has a different opinion on how long naps should be and it gets tangled up in a lot of emotion. The reality is, the perfect nap for your child might be entirely different from the perfect nap for another, and it might even change day to day. The best nap is the one that leaves your baby or toddler refreshed and ready to go – whether it’s a 10

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Episode 79: Sleep & Attachment

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2025/01/13

Some parents believe bed sharing and holding their child for their naps, will create more secure attachment than if their child sleeps in a cot or bed. But actually, where yourchild sleeps has very little bearing on their attachment style. Secure attachment is built through warm and responsive interactions when your child is awake, not during their sleep. Sharing your bed with your child might work well for you, but if you prefer your child sleeps in their cot or bed then you can feel

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Episode 78: How to stop bed sharing

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2025/01/06

Parents often tell us that there was one particularly tricky night when their baby or toddler just wouldn’t fall back asleep, and they finally caved, bringing their child in to their bed, in the hopes of getting more sleep. The problem? Their child realised that bed sharing was an option and decided that this would be the only place they would fall asleep from that point onwards 😅Some parents enjoy bed sharing but for most it makes sleep worse – night feeding can drastically increase, as

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60:21

Episode 77: From 8-10 night wakes to ZERO!

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2024/12/16

Cassie had an 8 month old who was waking multiple times each night. When she sought help from a friend she was told that bed sharing would be the best way to maximise her sleep and her baby’s sleep too. But instead of helping, bed sharing caused a drastic increase in night waking. Her son was now waking 8-10 times per night and Cassie was more exhausted than ever. But all of this turned around in under a week. In this week’s new episode, Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners)

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Episode 76: Baby & Toddler Sleep During the Festive...

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2024/12/09

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or if you just enjoy a nice break from paid work over the New Year period, you might have questions about how to manage your baby or toddler’s sleep. With family gatherings, changing routines, excitement and fun, it can feel a little scary to suddenly have your little one out of routine.In today’s episode Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) discuss how you can keep sleep on track during the festive season, so everyone is

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Episode 75: Your Guide to Tired Signs

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2024/12/02

Your baby is happily playing but then lets out a yawn. What do you do? Do you drop everything and sprint for the nursery, keen to settle them for sleep before they become overtired? Or do you wait longer to see if a collection of tired signs show up? It might surprise you to learn that yawning isn’t a reliable tired sign in little babies. It might also surprise you to learn that the haste with which you settle your baby after spotting a tired sign, very much depends on their age. If you’re

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Episode 74: Red Flags: Sleep Advice

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2024/11/18

The amount of conflicting information circulating about baby and toddler sleep, is wildly out of control 😵‍💫When you’re sleep deprived and searching for a solution, it’s easy to fall down the rabbit hole of emotionally charged misinformation.🐰 And this can be dangerous. A parent who’s on the brink of a major mental breakdown due to exhaustion, needs: ✅ support ✅ effective sleep strategies 🚫 not a guilt trip 🚫 not misinformation 🚫 and certainly not dangerous advice that might worsen

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Episode 73: Parent sleep

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2024/11/11

Your baby or toddler wakes in the night and you drag yourself out of bed, exhausted, but by the time you’ve got them back to sleep and you finally climb back in to your bed…you’re wide awake. In the middle of the night, it’s easy to begin worrying about anything and everything. Before you know it, your heart rate is up, you’re replaying every embarrassing thing you ever did, or doubting your life choices, and you might lie there for ages trying to fall back asleep. In this week’s episode of

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Episode 72: Sleep & settling can be hard to change

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2024/10/28

New parents are told to expect their sleep to change forever—but nothing truly prepares you for the reality of caring for a precious new life on such fragmented sleep. After the blur of the early weeks and months, many parents find themselves ready to make adjustments to where, when, and how their baby sleeps. For some, this shift happens within the first six months; for others, closer to a year; and for some parents, they simply aren’t ready to make changes to their child’s sleep until

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Episode 71: What’s your ‘17 diapers’ story?

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2024/10/22

Let’s talk about the ‘17 diapers’ trend happening on TikTok. Hannah is a mum who posted a video counting the number of dirty diapers she could find lying around her house. She found 17. She has a newborn and a toddler, so that’s probably 1 days’ worth of dirty nappies. Most would find this normal and unsurprising, but over 10,000 people jumped on her post to leave nasty comments criticising her parenting.Thankfully, that wasn’t the end of it. An army of mums came to Hannah’s rescue,

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Episode 70: Trauma & Parenting

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2024/10/14

Welcoming your own little baby to the fold is usually a pretty exciting and thrilling moment. Whilst the majority of new parents experience a lot of joy during this time, for some, the transition to parenthood is lined with trepidation. This is because we don’t begin parenting from a clean slate. We all arrive in parenting with our baggage – from our own experiences being parented as children, from the experiences we have birthing our children, and from the expectations set upon us by the

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Episode 69: Extreme parent fatigue

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2024/10/06

If you’re the parent of a toddler who’s had ongoing sleep difficulties since birth, chances are you’re battling extreme, unrelenting fatigue. How can parents possibly begin to make changes to their little one’s sleep, on the back of months of their own sleep deprivation? Especially when the sleep deprivation has contributed to increased depression and anxiety symptoms. This week we discuss strategies parents can use to manage their own fatigue when working towards improving their little

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Episode 68: Sleep Associations & DST

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2024/09/30

Are sleep associations real? Data from thousands of babies, children, and adults concludes that they absolutely are. So why has there been a recent increase in anti- sleep association sentiment on social media? Sleep associations are the things we need present in order to fall asleep and these tend to gradually shift across the lifespan.Tune in to hear Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhDs) unpack the science behind sleep associations, and the impact sleep associations might have on your baby or

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Episode 67: Setting boundaries with family

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2024/09/23

Many new parents have to navigate the influx of unwanted advice offered by extended family members. This can be amplified when extended family lives with you or comes to stay for an extended period. Like our anonymous listener, whose mother and sister in law constantly entered the bedroom when she was settling the baby, to tell her how she could be doing things differently. Setting clear boundaries with extended family, early on, can help set expectations and minimise hurt feelings. You are

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Episode 66: There’s no shame in cot settling

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2024/09/09

There are plenty of peoplewho will try to convince you that the only right way to settle your baby for sleep, is their way. They often describe cot settling as being harmful for babies, and when they try to use research papers to back up their opinions, they cite papers that don’t even examine sleep (or infants!) or papers that are purely theoretical and which don’t report on data from families. It creates an unnecessary minefield for parents and leads to feelings of shame and

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