The Kids Sleep Show Podcast
Weekly Episodes about this crazy parenting journeyto help you lean in and love parenting.
Welcome to the Kids Sleep Show Podcast! As a pediatric sleep expert, author, speaker, and lactation counselor, Courtney Zentz & her parenting guru guests share their strategies & secrets to help you ‘lean-in and love’ parenting, while building amazing sleepers for life.
The show will cover topics surrounding children and sleep from birth through young adulthood, featuring new research, education, and tools to understand and navigate the world of sleep.
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Recent Episodes
Episode 73: Why Won’t My Baby Sleep Through the Night
Resources: Slumber Made Simple Facebook Sleep Community Episode Highlights: Ready to Sleep Better?[xyz-ihs snippet="Transcript-Start"] Welcome to the kids sleep show, where we help tired parents from around the world to get their children to fall asleep...
Episode 72 – Spring Forward – Your Daylight Savings Plan
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 71 – Traveling & Timezone Hopping with Children
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: How long should you plan to travel if you are hopping more then one timezone? Travel hacks for naps and sleep in unfamiliar...
Episode 70 – Dealing with Separation Anxiety in Babies & Toddlers
Resources: Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: How to best support a baby who is experiencing separation anxiety The root behind a toddler separation and fear as they grow Sleep Struggles Solved + Results Guaranteed
Episode 69: Autism and Sleep with Guest, Sarina Weaver, LCP
Resources: Autism & Sleep with Autism Speaks Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Understanding how a child with autism prepares to sleep well The connection between autism and Melatonin production How a child with autism can...
Episode 68: Who Deems a Sleep Consultant “Certified” Anyway…
Resources: About Tiny Transitions & the Team Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: The truth behind selecting the 'right' sleep consultant. How do you screen to ensure you have someone who can support your journey to sleep. Sleep...
Episode 67: Say Goodbye to Sleep Regressions for Good
Resources: Beating the 8,9,10 Month Sleep Regression Blog Surviving Sleep Regressions Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Why do sleep regressions happening in children as they grow? How do you avoid sleep regressions once your child...
Episode 66: Don’t Do This when DIY Sleep Training
Resources: Sleep Training Methods Explained that are Not Cry It Out Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Are they not sleeping through the night because of a habit or need? What is the best sleep training method for a baby or child?...
Episode 65: What is the Ideal Bedtime Routine & Duration for Your Child?
Resources: Sleep Rewards Chart for Toddlers Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: The ideal duration of a bedtime routine to trigger sleep is coming. How a nursery and bedroom should be setup to balance and trigger sleep hormones...
Can Light and Nightlights Impact Your Child’s Sleep
There are 3 changes you can make today in your child’s room to get more sleep tonight. First, we discuss the use of night lights in a child’s room, something I see frequently as a sleep consultant. Next, we discuss ambient lighting from the gadgets, timers, monitors,...
Episode 63- 3 Things You Can Change Today for More Sleep Tonight
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 62: 3 Changes to Make in Your Child’s Room Today
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 61- The Role of a Doula with Ava Ellis
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 59- Self Care with Julia Hickman
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 58- Should I Keep CoSleeping or Room Sharing?
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 57- Miss Leslie the Virtual Nanny
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 56- Benefits of Reiki for Children with Sophie Shaw
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 55- Will A Weighted Blanket Help My Baby Sleep?
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 54- Managing Divorce & Separation with Dr. Tara Egan
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 53- Are Hormones Messing with Your Child’s Sleep?
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 52- Positive Parenting Tricks with Malva Gasowski
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 51- Balancing Divorce and Your Child’s Sleep
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 50- Anger Management in Children with Kristina Campos
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 49- The 2 to 1 Nap Transition
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 48- Postpartum Depression & Anxiety with Gunjani Patel
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 47- Using OK to Wake Up Clocks
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 46- Autism and Space Design with Wendy Valente
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 45- Daylight Savings – Fall Back
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 44- Postpartum Nutrition and Breastfeeding with Jada Glover
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 43- Moving and Avoiding a Sleep Regression
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 42- Sensory Regulation in Children with Christine Robenalt
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 41- 5 Things to Know About Daycare Sleep
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 40- 8 Month Regressions and Leaps
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 39- Confident Parenting with Mary Kerwin
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 38- A Newborn Sleep Schedule
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 37- Beauty in Parenting with Aparna Venkataraman
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 36- Back to School and Back to Sleep
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 35- The 2 to 1 Nap Transition
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 34- Pacifiers at Bedtime
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 33- The 8, 9, and 10 Month Sleep Regression
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 31- What Is a Digital Doula with Jariell Campbell
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 32- Parenting Wholeheartedly with Danielle Bettemen
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 30- What A Lack of Sleep Can Cost You & Your Family
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 29- What Sleep “Training” Really Is
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 28- Stop Early Morning Wakings
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 27- Creating Your Ideal Day
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 26- Build An Ideal Sleeper in 5 Days
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 25- When Should You Night Wean?
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 24- Are You Filling Your Toddler’s Cup?
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 23- Rolling Back to Belly
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 22- Five Reasons for Short Naps
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 20- When To Stop Feeds Overnight
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 19- Waking Up Crying
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 18- Mindset and Self Care For Mom
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 17- Interview with Zenimal Founder, Anna MacSalka
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 16- Nap Transitions
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 15- Selecting A Swaddle
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 14- Early Morning Wakings
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 13- Backtalk at Bedtime
Resources: Read the Blog on Traveling and Timezone Hopping with Children Free Sleep Training Workshop - Making Over Bedtime Episode Highlights: Sample Scheduled for every stage of naps to adjust with ease Understanding how to adjust and how long it will take to go...
Episode 12: Short Naps
Overview: In this episode, Courtney talks about short naps and how to handle them. She discusses the reasons why short naps happen and how to lengthen them. Finally, she reviews ways to keep your child awake to avoid the dreaded “five-minute” nap. What To Expect: Nap...
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