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MOMENT | How to stop stressing about sleep with Lyndsey Hookway

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8863 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This moment is with Lyndsey Hookway. Lyndsey is a paediatric nurse, children’s public health nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Holistic Sleep Coach, Ph.D. candidate, and birth trauma recovery practitioner. She is the author of three books: Holistic Sleep Coaching, Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep, and her latest book called Still Awake. She is also co-founder of the Holistic Sleep Coaching programme. I hope you enjoy this Moment and find it inspiring for your week ahead. You can listen to the full episode here. Instagram - @zoeblaskey - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:46.0

What are some of the other big myths that are unhelpful?

0:49.7

I think 7 till 7 is a big one.

0:52.6

The idea that little ones should be sleeping 12 hours

0:55.6

a night. And I talk all the time about how that's actually not evidence-based. When you look at

1:00.8

very large population level data, most babies under the age of two only sleep somewhere between

1:08.4

nine and 11 hours. So most of us are trying to put our babies to bed

1:13.2

too early. And then what happens is either we have an epic marathon length bedtime because they're

1:20.1

simply not tired enough or they wake up numerous times in the early part of the evening because

1:26.1

they just haven't got enough

1:27.7

sleep pressure on board. That's that drive to be asleep when you've been awake for long enough.

1:32.7

Or they wake up in the middle of the night, which is actual torture for two hours, which is

1:38.5

fairly common. That's called a split night. Or they wake up really early. So, you know,

1:43.0

if you're putting your little one to bed

1:44.6

at half past six, thinking you're doing the right thing and your little one wakes up at half four,

1:50.4

they probably only needed 10 hours of sleep. But still, we feel like we've messed it up. And then

1:56.1

we look for an early rising solution when actually that's not going to fix the problem, because

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