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 102: The Step by Step to Reset Your Toddlers Bedtime
In this episode, I am joined by Angela Stuart, a Sleep Consultant on my Slumber Squad from Austin, TX, and our resident Toddler Expert to discuss some tools and strategies parents should have to reset their little ones’ sleep at bedtime and through the night....
Episode 101: The 3 Month & 4 Month Transition and Regression
In this episode, I dive into the weird time between 3 months old and 4 months old, when things “should” be stabilizing but seem to get a mess again. What’s happening?? Listen to this episode and you will answer that question. Resources: Join my Free Sleep Community...
Episode 100: Should I Introduce Solids if Baby Isn’t Sleeping Through the Night Yet?
In this episode, I dive into the topic of solids, when to pull back on them if baby isn’t sleeping well, what type of solids are nutritionally awesome. I discuss how solids impact a child sleeping well and how you help my baby to sleep through the night and know they...
Episode 99: Does Melatonin Work to Help You Sleep Better?
In this episode, I dive into a conversation on Melatonin, how it’s used, how it works in the body, what foods contain melatonin, and what you should understand about this hormone. Resources: Total Sleep Needs Chart By Age Taming a Toddler Tornado at Bedtime free guide...
Episode 98-Daylight Savings and how to Spring Forward
Resources: Sample Schedules for Spring Forward Sample Schedules Free Sleep Community on FacebookEpisode Highlights: Sleep Struggles Solved + Results Guaranteed Welcome to the kids sleep show, where we help tired parents from...
Episode 97: Is your toddlers lovie keeping YOU awake
Many times, there is ‘something’ a toddler seeks that leads you into their bedroom multiple times a night, causing them to no longer sleep through the night and causing a sleep regression for weeks and sometimes months. In this episode, I explain a situation with a...
Episode 96- The 5 Month Sleep Regression & Nap Schedule
Resources: Free Sample Schedule Generator Free Sleep Community on Facebook Short Naps Masterclass Episode Highlights: Sleep Struggles Solved + Results Guaranteed Welcome to the kids sleep show, where we help tired parents from...
Episode 95 – How to get a full feeding into baby without them falling asleep
Resources: Free Sleep Community Baby Stomach Size Chart Episode Highlights: Why do babies often fall asleep while eating Your options to stop the baby from falling asleep at the breast or bottle How you can make small changes that help baby prepare to eat better and...
Episode 94: A Sleep Consultant’s Hack for Adding a New Sibling to the Family Without Upsetting Your Toddler
Resources: Free Sleep Community: Slumber Made Simple Facebook Sleep Community Free Discovery Call with a Sleep Coach on my team Episode Highlights: Ready to Sleep Better? Welcome to the kids sleep show, where we help tired...
Episode 93: The Reasons Why I Love the Merlin Magic Sleep Suit
Resources: Download the Baby Dressing Guide https://tinytransitions.com/how-do-i-dress-baby-for-sleep-downloadable-guide/ Free Sleep Community: Slumber Made Simple Facebook Sleep Community Free Discovery Call with a Sleep Coach on my team Episode Highlights: In honor...
Episode 92: Present Over Perfect – How to Reboot Your Balance as a Busy Mom
Resources: Free Sleep Community: Slumber Made Simple Free Discovery Call with a Sleep Coach on my team As Promised, here is the exercise! Episode Highlights: Caring for yourself as a busy mom Introduce an exercise to bring attention to and reboot the balance you feel...
Episode 91: Successful Naps on the Go
Resources: Free Sleep Community: Slumber Made Simple Free Discovery Call with a Sleep Coach on my team. A blog where I further dive into this with 2 child sleep coaches, Chris & Lauren Nosal, the “sleep forward family” out of St. Louis, MO, who manage 4 kids under...
Episode 90: When Should I Hire a Sleep Consultant & What Must I Look For?
Resources: The Blog - search for the sleep struggle you have and build back healthy sleeping into your home. Free Sleep Community: Slumber Made Simple Facebook Sleep Community Free Discovery Call with a Sleep Coach on my team Episode Highlights: Are you a new mom...
Episode 89: 8 Ways To Help Baby Transition From Breast To Bottle
Resources: Slumber Made Simple Facebook Sleep Community Lansinoh, Comotomo, MumuJumi Medicine Pacifier Episode Highlights: Position / Forward Facing Different Bottle Different Nipple Flow / Design Medicine Pacifier Ready to Sleep Better?[xyz-ihs...
Episode 88 – When Supported Sleep Becomes a Problem
Resources: Newborn eBook Infants Guide on 7 Tips for Better Sleep Toddler Sleep – 5 Changes to Implement today Slumber Made Simple Sleep Support Community Episode Highlights: What is Supported Sleep At what age should I stop supporting baby to sleep Is supported sleep...
Episode 87 – Pacifiers – How to determine if that Binkie Needs to Bounce?
Resources: Newborn eBook Infants Guide on 7 Tips for Better Sleep Toddler Sleep - 5 Changes to Implement today Slumber Made Simple Sleep Support Community Episode Highlights: How to identify if the pacifier is a prop or is OK to stay 4 Methods to Remove the Pacifier...
Episode 86 – An Interview with Courtney Fox Peters, Founder of Swaddlou®
Resources: Learn more about this amazing swaddle. Follow Swaddlou on Instagram. Episode Highlights: How this new and unique swaddle came to be. What makes this swaddle different. The ability to use this swaddle from birth to help calm your newborn & get better,...
Episode 85: Supported Sleep vs. Independent Sleep for Naps to Keep Baby Sleeping Through the Night
Resources: Slumber Made Simple Facebook Sleep Community Episode Highlights: Live a 80/20 balance when helping baby settle with good long naps Ready to Sleep Better? Welcome to the kids sleep show, where we help tired parents from...
Episode 84: Is the Pacifier Impacting Babies Sleep?
Resources: Slumber Made Simple Facebook Sleep Community Episode Highlights: When can the pacifier stay and when it needs to go Discuss how to know if the pacifier is the trouble behind your child's sleep struggles Ready to Sleep Better?[xyz-ihs...
Episode 83: Weighted Swaddles: The Benefit of Gentle Pressure with Dreamland Baby Co Founder Tara Williams
Resources: Episode Highlights: Ready to Sleep Better? Welcome to the kids sleep show, where we help tired parents from around the world to get their children to fall asleep independently, sleep through the night and build...
Episode 82: Why Giving Melatonin to Children Isn’t What I Would Do First
Resources: Episode Highlights: Ready to Sleep Better? Welcome to the kids sleep show, where we help tired parents from around the world to get their children to fall asleep independently, sleep through the night and build...
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