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The role of the Registered Nurse or Newborn Care Provider is to feed, soothe, bathe, change & provide all other gentle care to baby through the night.
We also provide evidence based education and ongoing support to parents.
We’re often asked about “Getting Baby on a Schedule” here at LMS. While baby’s routine is something that naturally emerges if we follow baby’s lead, it’s understandable that the rest of the family can benefit from predictable feeding and sleep times. Below is a sample schedule for a typical 6/7 month old baby. This […]
Our team gets lots of questions about how to help babies to sleep through the night! Sometimes when babies “should” be old enough to sleep 8 hour stretches, there are 3 main reasons why they don’t. Why Your Baby Wakes Overnight can help infants and parents sleep peacefully. Why Your Baby Wakes Overnight 1. Why […]
When seeking ways to help baby sleep longer stretches at night, parents commonly hear advice that they must offer baby a “dreamfeed.” But what is a Dreamfeed? And how does it work? Here’s how this scheduled feeding technique works: What is a Dreamfeed? Popularized by the widely respected Baby Whisperer newborn advice books, to dreamfeed […]
When parents ask Heidi Streufert, RN, CLC if it’s okay to let their baby fall asleep at the breast, she usually responds, “I dare you to try to keep them awake!” Parents sometimes wonder if they’re creating bad habits by letting baby nurse to sleep. The Truth About Breastfeeding to Sleep tells them not to […]
One of the questions every parent of multiples gets asked is: “What do you do when the babies cry at the same time?” Below is, Crying it Out: Parents Edition, a real answer from Denise Stern, whose newborn twins arrived when her baby boy was just 17 months old: I will never forget when my […]
