Expect to Sleep Again Sleep Consulting, Boston, MA (2026)

Helping families get the rest they need through proven strategies and unwavering support through the process.

10/15/2026

Do you have to sleep train your baby again after illness, travel, or a sleep regression? NO!

You’re not starting over. You’re recalibrating.

Your baby’s sleep needs change as they grow, and life happens! Illness, vacations, and developmental changes can temporarily disrupt sleep.

Getting back on track doesn’t mean repeating sleep training. It means understanding what changed and making the right adjustments to your child’s schedule.

That’s the difference between following a generic sleep training method and actually understanding your baby’s sleep needs.

Struggling to get your baby’s sleep back on track? Book a free call through the link in my bio. 💙

🎙️ For more helpful, evidence-based baby and toddler sleep tips, check out The Sleep Edit podcast with me and Craig Canapari M.D.!

10/06/2026

Breastfeeding or bottle feeding. Sleep training or no sleep training. Pacifier or no pacifier. Daycare or staying home. Purées or baby-led weaning. Screens or no screens.

Everyone has an opinion. That doesn’t mean every parent needs to hear it.

Do what works for you and your family. Let other parents do the same. And keep the unsolicited parenting advice to yourself. ❤️

10/01/2026

I keep seeing baby sleep schedules online that assume every baby of the same age needs roughly the same amount of sleep.

They don’t.

A 9-month-old who needs 12.5 hours in 24 hours and a 9-month-old who needs 14.5 hours should not be on the same schedule. But search for a “9-month sleep schedule” and you’ll quickly find recommendations that expect 14, 15, even 16 hours of sleep.

Can some babies sleep that much? Absolutely. But those are higher-sleep-needs babies, not the standard we should be using for every baby that age.

This matters because we need enough awake time to build sleep drive. If your child needs 12.5 hours of sleep but the schedule you’re following is asking for 14.5, they may simply not be tired enough to sleep when that schedule says they should.

And when those schedules don’t work, parents are so often told their baby is overtired. So wake windows get shortened. Bedtime gets moved earlier. More sleep gets added.

What if the schedule was already asking for more sleep than their body needed?

This is why I don’t start with a generic age-based schedule. I want to know how much YOUR child actually sleeps over 24 hours, then build a schedule around that so they get enough sleep while also building enough sleep drive to fall asleep and stay asleep more easily.

And I’m looking for FIVE families to test a new tool I’ve created to help take the guesswork out of doing exactly that.

You’ll log your child’s sleep for 7–10 days, and I’ll use THEIR data to create a one-page personalized schedule + roadmap based on their individual sleep needs.

Want to be one of my five testers? DM me TESTER.

09/23/2026

Can you sleep train a breastfed baby without night weaning? Absolutely.

In this episode of The Sleep Edit, Dr. Lauren Hughes, MD, IBCLC | Board-Certified Pediatrician joined us to talk about breastfeeding, infant sleep, and the enormous amount of misinformation parents encounter online.

Breastfeeding and sleep training are not opposites. And sleep training is not the same thing as night weaning.

A breastfed baby can learn independent sleep skills and still wake for overnight feeds. The goal is not automatically to eliminate nighttime breastfeeding.

Depending on your baby’s age, growth, feeding needs, and overall health, overnight feeds may still be completely appropriate.

Social media may make it seem like you have to choose between breastfeeding and better sleep. You don’t.

Listen to the full conversation with Dr. Lauren Hughes, MD, IBCLC | Board-Certified Pediatrician on The Sleep Edit podcast, and share this with a breastfeeding parent who needs to hear it.

09/17/2026

“It depends” might be the most frustrating answer in parenting, but when it comes to feeding and sleep schedules, it’s often the most accurate one.

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Lauren Hughes, MD, IBCLC | Board-Certified Pediatrician about why babies don’t need to be forced into a rigid “every 3 hours,” “every 4 hours,” or perfectly timed wake-window schedule.

As babies become more predictable, often around 4 months, sleep can start to become more predictable too. And once sleep has some consistency, feeding can often fall into a more predictable rhythm around it.

But the schedule still has to fit the child.

Because kids are people, not robots. There is nuance. There is variability. And there usually isn’t one universally “right” schedule.

Full episode linked in bio.

09/08/2026

This can be one of the hardest parts of parenting babies and toddlers, especially when it comes to sleep.

When we decide that a naptime, bedtime, or overnight accommodation is no longer working for our family, we can’t place the responsibility for changing that pattern entirely on our baby or toddler.

Babies and toddlers learn through repetition. They continue to expect the response that feels familiar and predictable. That isn’t manipulation. But if our response stays the same, the pattern usually will, too. They need us to provide healthy boundaries and routines to see that change happen.

Changing our behavior doesn’t mean becoming cold or rigid. It means deciding what the new boundary or routine will be and responding consistently, even when our baby or toddler has feelings about the change. We can allow them to have their feelings, support them through the change, and still hold boundaries and routines that will ultimately help the health of the entire family.

We can be loving and responsive without continuing an accommodation that no longer works for our family.

Share this with a parent who needs to hear that changing a pattern can still be loving and responsive.

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