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Top white noise machines for soothing your baby
Sleep Top white noise machines for soothing your baby
Here’s how white noise helps calm, and where to find the best white noise machine for your child.
Maintaining Baby’s Sleep on the Go: The Best 3 Night Lights for Travel
Registry Maintaining Baby’s Sleep on the Go: The Best 3 Night Lights for Travel
With the right tools, you can learn effective ways to help your baby sleep—and build your parenting confidence while traveling. 
A Complete Guide to the Best Baby Swaddles for New Parents
Registry A Complete Guide to the Best Baby Swaddles for New Parents
With the right technique, swaddling can be an effective way to soothe your baby throughout the legendary fourth trimester. 
How Nanit’s AI supports parents every day
Growth & Milestones How Nanit’s AI supports parents every day
Parents can truly benefit from the extra help of AI tools, which can support your growing family as you learn your baby’s patterns and rhythms.  Here’s how Nanit’s behavioral AI technology can eas...
How to recognize and soothe an overtired baby
Sleep How to recognize and soothe an overtired baby
Discover why babies fight sleep and how you can help soothe an overtired baby. 
white noise for baby
Sleep The soothing power of white noise for your baby
White noise can be an incredibly useful way to create a tranquil environment to relax your baby.
baby sleeping on its back in crib when can babies sleep on their stomachs
Growth & Milestones When can newborns sleep on their stomach safely?
Babies should always be placed on their backs come naptime or bedtime. But once they’ve hit certain milestones, they can begin to explore different sleeping positions.
When can my baby sleep through the night without a feeding?
Growth & Milestones When can my baby sleep through the night without a feeding?
When your baby can start sleeping through the night without a feeding depends on your baby’s needs. There are general guidelines and protocols that can help you understand when your baby is ready f...
Solving bedtime battles tips for parents with toddlers and school aged children
Growth & Milestones Toddler sleep issues: 5 signs and how to handle them
Here are some scientifically-backed techniques that can make bedtime routines with your young child or toddler less challenging, thereby enhancing the quality of sleep for the entire family. 
Daylight Saving survival guide
Sleep Daylight Saving survival guide
While the Daylight Saving time change can be a challenge for some children, we’re here to guide you through adjusting your baby’s sleep schedule for Daylight Saving to make it as easy as possible,...
The 6 month sleep regression: What it is and how to get through it
Growth & Milestones The 6 month sleep regression: What it is and how to get through it
You might have heard your parent-friends grumble about spending weeks slogging through sleepless nights around their baby’s four month birthday, adjusting routines, creating an ideal sleep sanctua...
transition baby to crib
Sleep How To Transition Baby To Crib
As a new parent, you have probably had the lovely daydream of looking down at your tiny bundle of joy in cute pajamas sleeping peacefully in a crib with a smile tugging on your baby’s lips. You mig...
Sleep Disorders and Autism: What You Need to Know
Growth & Milestones Sleep Disorders and Autism: What You Need to Know
April is World Autism Month, and at Nanit, we consider it part of our mission to facilitate better research and improve understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—more specifically, how ASD im...
Why Is Sleep So Important for My Child's Growth and Development?
Growth & Milestones Why Is Sleep So Important for My Child's Growth and Development?
Sleep is as imperative as nutrition and exercise when it comes child growth and development. However, sleep has often been absent in children’s health messaging. When sleep is taken into account, t...
6 Tips from a Baby Safety Expert to Keep Your Baby Safe
Sleep 6 Tips from a Baby Safety Expert to Keep Your Baby Safe
While we, as parents, should absolutely take a proactive approach when it comes to preventing the most common and most fatal types of injuries for babies, many other safety measures can be consider...
Safe Sleep Environment
Registry How to Create a Safe Sleep Environment for Your Newborn
Safe Sleep: Tips for a Secure and Comfortable Sleep Environment for Your Baby
Sleep Safe Sleep: Tips for a Secure and Comfortable Sleep Environment for Your Baby
Creating a safe sleep space for your baby We’re the kind of people who notice everything, from trends in sleep data to the slightly crooked diplomas hanging on our favorite doctor’s office wall. We...
Nighttime Diaper Changes — How Often Should You Change Your Baby’s Diaper at Night?
Health & Wellness Nighttime Diaper Changes — How Often Should You Change Your Baby’s Diaper at Night?
How Often Should You Change Your Baby’s Diaper at Night? Sleep comes at a premium for you and your baby. That’s why you might find yourself asking this question in the middle of the night: Do I nee...
Baby Sleep Basics
Sleep Baby Sleep Basics
Many parents experience sleep struggles with their little ones. Sleep struggles include taking a long time to get baby to fall asleep, short 40 minute naps, frequent night waking and early morning ...
Tips for Happy and Long Naps for Newborns to Toddlers
Sleep Tips for Happy and Long Naps for Newborns to Toddlers
When you have a baby, everyone talks about sleeping through the night as the holy grail of sleep. But as any parent holding a fussy, overtired infant in her arms quickly learns: daytime sleep is es...
4 Month Sleep Regression: Why It Happens & Tips to Survive It
Growth & Milestones 4 Month Sleep Regression: Why It Happens & Tips to Survive It
Just as you’re emerging from the newborn haze and your baby is sleeping for longer stretches during the ni...
5 Newborn Sleep Tips for Exhausted New Parents
Sleep 5 Newborn Sleep Tips for Exhausted New Parents
Your baby will learn a lot from you over the years. Perhaps the first and most important skill you’ll teach...
Baby dreaming
Sleep What in the World Is Your Baby Dreaming About?
Babies spend a lot of their days and, hopefully!, nights sleeping, which begs the question – do they spend...
The Science Behind Getting Your Baby A Better Night's Sleep
Sleep The Science Behind Getting Your Baby A Better Night's Sleep