The Best Strategy For Dealing With Bedwetting Bedwetting is the unintended, involuntary voiding of the bladder while your child sleeps, mostly at night. It can occur at any age, but 3-6 years is probably the peak period. Boys are more affected than girls and bedwetting even sometimes continues to [...]
Co-sleeping Myths – Busted! Are you curious about co-sleeping, i.e. letting Baby sleep in bed with you? You’ve probably seen some good things about it on the Sister Lilian Centre Facebook page and blog and maybe even heard some good things from fellow parents. But, you’ve probably also heard [...]
What’s The Big Deal About Co-sleeping? Co-sleeping, bed sharing, the family bed – no matter what the latest name is – forms part of attachment parenting and basically means letting Baby sleep in bed with you. Just like skin-to-skin and kangaroo mother care, co-sleeping has sound scientific backing and [...]
Sister Lilian’s Five Top Sleep Tips Did you know that of all the concerns parents have, sleep – or more correctly, lack of it – tops the list? I’ve been getting a steady stream of sleep queries since the mid-1980s. It’s no surprise, really; sleep deprivation is a well-recognised [...]
A Playful Approach To Baby Massage We firmly believe that touch is a gift that all parents can give their children – and what a gift! Did you know that touch helps develop healthy functioning connections between the mind, body, and emotions? It also releases tension and aids those [...]
Sister Lilian Centre’s Basic Sleep Recipe The problem with developing a sleep recipe is that babies and toddlers are completely different from one another… it’s almost impossible to develop an actual sleep recipe. Instead, you need to build up your own flexible, kind, realistic routine around your child’s own natural [...]
9 Top Tips For Building A Baby Routine I hate the word ‘routine’. In my many years as a parenting advisor, I have seen more tears of frustration caused by the relentless pursuit of a ‘good routine’ than I have seen tears of joy! And when you think how [...]
