The Care It Out Sleep Show

Tiffany Belanger from Cosleepy returns to The Sleep Show for this episode and I’m so excited to talk to her again!
In this episode, she shares how you can make bed-sharing safer when away from home.
If you bed share and are about to stay away from home in a hotel, apartment or holiday home this episode is for you.
We talk through how to pack the crack, bed boards, mattresses and so much more!
Tiffany Belanger attended UCLA and adventured in the film and television industry prior to parenthood. In 2020 she founded Cosleepy, a cosleeping one-stop shop to help modern parents keep their babies safe and close at night.
Tiffany is a frequent guest on podcasts and blogs, and she was recently interviewed in New York Magazine's viral article Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping?
She and her husband are currently bedsharing with their two little boys in Sacramento, California.
Further resources:
Safety packet: cosleepy.com/safe-bedsharing-guidelines
Tiffany’s first episode on The Sleep Show: careitout.com/podcast/episode-45-all-about-bed-sharing-with-tiffany-belanger-aka-cosleepy

On this episode of The Sleep Show, Zoe Ayre AKA The Respectful Mum joins us to talk about weaning respectfully and share her weaning story.
And it’s FULL of wonderful nuggets of wisdom!
Zoe is a children’s author, mum and respectful parenting advocate. She shares her respectful and honest parenting journey along with advice on Instagram as The Respectful Mum.
She loves sharing her respectful parenting journey as a toddler mum and her account shares the honest highs and lows of parenthood!
Her book, ‘I Will Always Help You Sleep’ was born of a desire for parents and children to be able to see themselves in the pages of a children’s book, in a world where being responsive to our children at nighttime can sometimes feel a lonely path. The book is as much for parents as it is for children, and hopes to bring reassurance that it’s okay to support our little ones to sleep. It’s truly unique in the way it represents normal infant sleep, co-sleeping and post-partum reality.
During this episode we talk through together:
Why she’s an advocate of respectful parenting
What does respectful mean to her?
Is it possible to night wean respectfully?
Her experience of night weaning her 20 month old daughter
Why being calm and confident is crucial when night weaning?
When is the best time to night wean?
Is it possible to night wean without tears?
Tips for when/if you’re ready to night wean
And SO much more!
I really hope you enjoy listening to this episode as we had so much fun recording it together!
You can find Zoe’s Instagram page at instagram.com/therespectfulmum
And you can buy her amazing book at www.therespectfulmum.com
Use RESPECT10 for 10% off the book, free bookmark and free signing/dedications (free P&P included).
Further links:
My weaning workshop:
www.careitout.com/courses/night-weaning-workshop
www.tiktok.com/@therespectfulmum
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083393322318
www.facebook.com/TheBookYouWish/
www.janetlansbury.com

On this episode of the Sleep Show I speak to pregnancy and postpartum psychotherapist Sophie Harris.
Sophie’s a psychotherapist who specialises in helping new mums during pregnancy and postpartum. She aims to normalise motherhood's tough times, help mums feel better, and celebrate being a mother. She believes that supporting and valuing the role of a mother should be made a priority to help build a happier and healthier society.
She’s also known as Looking After Mum on Instagram and I absolutely LOVE her reassuring and supportive posts. I experienced night rage as a new mum and I wasn’t expecting it. The rage really took me by surprise and I found her page invaluable in my early days of motherhood.
I really hope she becomes a regular guest on the podcast for us!
During this episode she talks us through:
-Mum rage
-Irrational fears
-Intrusive thoughts
-Anxiety
-Anxious thoughts
-Resentment
And SO much more!
I found it so reassuring to hear that I wasn’t the only one who found some days so exhausting that I didn’t have the energy to even brush my teeth.
And I really hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it together!
You can find Sarah’s amazing Instagram page here:
www.instagram.com/looking_after_mum/
Further links:
www.lookingaftermum.co.uk
www.empoweredmumclub.co.uk

I’m always honest that Waiting It Out works.
And will forever reassure you that your Small will sleep through the night all by themselves even if you do nothing now.
I know that can sound unbelievable because society and the sleep training industry are constantly telling you the only way your Small will ever sleep through is if you teach or train them to.
But even if you:
Do nothing now
Never sleep train
Put a single sleep tip in place
Your Small will eventually:
Fall asleep solo
Sleep in their own sleep space
And sleep through the night!
However, I can’t tell you when they will and that can be hard to hear and the waiting isn’t always easy.
In this episode, Mum of two Kirsty joins me to share her waiting-it-out story with us.
She waited it out with her 3-year-old and is currently doing the same with her 7-month-old baby.

In this podcast episode, Kirsty and i talk through:
What is wait it out?
What wait it out mean for her family
Why Wait It Out worked for her family
Did she feel pressure to sleep train?
Was she ever tempted to sleep train?
What helped her while waiting
Whether she will wait it out again with her second baby
And so much more!

I really enjoyed talking to Kirsty and I hope you loved listening.
If you do please give The Sleep Show a little love and leave a review!

Further resources
Free nap gap guide:
www.careitout.com/blog/infant-nap-gaps-guide
Free four steps webinar:
www.careitout.com/sleep-freebie

This week’s guest on The Sleep Show is neuroscientist, doula and mom Dr Greer Kirshenbaum.
She’s no stranger to the podcast because this is the second time she’s talked to us.
You can listen to her debut here: careitout.com/podcast/episode-17-baby-brains-and-bedtime
And I’m really hoping she becomes a regular because I LOVE her and her approach to parenting and sleep. I could talk to her all day!
She’s passionate about nurturing your baby’s brain and is all about connection too.
During this episode, we explore how we’ve both taken our responsive approaches from our practices into our own personal parenting journey.
And we answer the million-dollar questions:
Has our approach changed now that we’re parents
Could or would we ever sleep train our own children?
I really hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it together!
You can find Greer’s reassuring and supportive Instagram community here: @nurture_neuroscience_parenting
And you can buy her book here: www.amazon.co.uk/Nurture-Revolution-Transform-Nurtured-Parenting/dp/1538709333/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RWAUJBWFEUAY&keywords=the%20nurture%20revolution&qid=1687379955&sprefix=the%20nurture%20%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-1