Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Stansbury is a San Diego-based travel and parenting writer. As a single working mom-to-be, I decided that the key to my ...

For Jamie Windt, emotional turbulence arrived every evening between 5 and 7. Her infant daughter, Avery, spent the two hours screaming and crying. Finally, when Avery did drift off to sleep — often ...

One night, I was rocking my 4-month-old son to help him fall asleep. Newly un-swaddled, he had his hands free and was rubbing his face and wriggling around. Lately, I’d found myself working harder and ...

WELL, IN TODAY’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR SLEEP TRAINING YOUR BABY. IT’S THE PROCESS OF TEACHING YOUR CHILD TO SELF-SOOTHE AND THEN SLEEP THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER. DR. ASHANTI WOODS SAYS THERE ...

The issue of sleep training has become rather emotional and downright nasty in recent years. The controversy centers around whether methods that advocate letting babies cry (even for short periods of ...

The debate over whether or not to let your baby “cry-it-out” ignores the fact that mother’s need sleep. A sleeping baby. Credit: Dakota Corbin / Unsplash Credit: Dakota Corbin / Unsplash I am not a ...

Up to a third of mothers don't bond well with their babies after birth, causing intense emotional distress to both mother and baby. Now researchers have found that they can train at-risk expectant ...