Sleep deprivation can affect a child’s mood, behaviour and academic performance, writes Paula Goodyer.
I was sent this article to read by a client, I thought I would share it with you.
Sleep deprivation can affect a child’s mood, behaviour and academic performance, writes Paula Goodyer.
What’s the difference between a child who’s overtired and one with a behaviour disorder? Not a lot, says sleep specialist Dr Chris Seton, recalling a US experiment in which 50 children with ADHD were put together in a hall with 50 sleep deprived children – and sleep physicians and ADHD experts were asked to tell them apart. To read more please click here!
1 pm sleep time otherwise known as Mummy time!
Hi Kate:
You asked me if I could tell you what my boy’s routine looked like so here it is. It is pretty much the same as the sample routine for a baby and toddler on page 143 of the fully revised and updated Save Our Sleep® book or page 135 of the old book.
I thought I would give you a rundown of last Sunday in the Tizzie household.
7 am I woke Cillian up and fed him, changed him and got him dressed for the day.
(Some days Darragh wakes at 7 if he hears Cillian and I either read to him, watch Brum with him or set him up on his easy PC while I feed Cillian. Today I actually fed them both in bed I got Cillian on the breast and then lay Darragh on the other side and fed him his bottle.)
8 am Darragh woke up and I gave him his morning bottle of milk, Cillian lay under the play centre while I gave Darragh his bottle.
8.45 am Darragh had his breakfast, Cillian was in my arm watching Darragh eat and Cillian and I gave Darragh a hand with the odd spoon full.
9 am Cillian went to bed. I dressed Darragh for the day and got the car packed to go to the beach. At 10 am I got Cillian out of his crib and put him in the car seat and we headed off to the beach 40 minutes away. (not our local one.) Nathan had left at 7.30 to cycle and he met us at the beach at 10.40 am where we transferred Cillian to his buggy.
11 am we were set up at the beach and I fed Cillian in a beach tent. Darragh played at the beach with a friend and we all left and went to a café for 12.30 pm where Darragh had lunch. At 1 pm I wrapped Cillian and put him to bed in his car seat and put Darragh in the buggy. As you will see from the Video they both slept. If Cillian had not transferred in the morning and had woken before 11 am I would have adjusted him afternoon sleep to a bit earlier as explained in the book.
1 pm both asleep and mummy time for me!! I had a coffee and too many chips! Click on the link at the top to watch the video!
3 pm Darragh woke up and had a drink and a snack while I fed Cillian and then we went for a quick walk before we headed home at 4.30 pm (Cillian nap time). We had to take a back road a 4 wheel drive route because the road through Anglesea was so busy.
We got home at 5.15 and I set Darragh up with his dinner and I bathed Cillian in the tummy tub on the kitchen table while Darragh sat beside us and ate.
5.50 pm Darragh had his bath while Cillian had a kick under his play centre again. ( Nathan was off doing the weekly shop)
6.10 pm I fed Cillian and Darragh had some time playing his Easy PC and then Nathan got home at about 6.30 am and gave Darragh his milk.
Both boys went to bed at 7 pm!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: It is not me talking in the video it is Sue my sister!
Brotherly and comforter love!!
Darragh and Cillian look like they are going to share their love for comforters!
Read my advice on comforter’s here!
Cillian, 7 weeks and 4 days old!
Cillian went to bed tonight in his Bubbaroo safe sleeping bag for the first time. A baby seems to get colder when they reach 8 weeks and Cillian will be 8 weeks on Friday so I popped him in his safe sleeping bag tonight. Of course he is still wrapped in his Doublewrap around it because it is very important to keep a baby wrapped until they show signs of trying to roll wrapped.
Do you like his new Weegoamigo Dino Blanket? He looks like he is looking at the dino’s on it. Thank you Ben, Steve and team at the little linen company for sending it to Cillian as a gift!
Le gach dea-ghui, Tizzie
Save Our Sleep Toddler
As some of you may already know Save Our Sleep® Toddler is due for release in the New Year. To avoid clients, readers and friends missing out on the first print run we are taking pre-orders now! Hurry so you don’t miss out!
Perfect Tizzie Boys!!!
Last Sunday we had our first trip out with both boys at sleep time. We went to an engagement party BBQ lunch at the Geelong yacht club! At 12.45 I popped both boys in the new double-buggy which neither of them had slept in yet and as you can see from the picture they were both perfect Tizzie sleepers!
Of course Darragh had his safe sleeping bag on his blankets from his cot and his lamb comforters which he has named Baaaaa! Cillian was in his DOUBLEWRAP and under his purebaby red blanket. He also had brandy his comforter but he isn’t in love with him yet but I am sure he will be soon enough. I believe having the bedding they are used to having at home really helps out and about sleeps.
Some of you may notice Darragh now has a Save Our Sleep® Baaaaa as well as the babygund ones and he doesn’t seem to mind the little differences.
Le gach dea-ghui, Tizzie
Breastfeeding!
On the news today I heard the Australian government are going to use an ad campaign to try and encourage parents to breastfeed their babies until at least a year old.
I believe if mothers were taught to breastfeed on a routine from day one in hospital with the 6 minute, 9 minute until their milk came in approach this would be much more successful than an add campaign, in fact I am going to twitter Kevin now and tell him LOL.
What amazes me is out of all my close friends (not clients and other breastfeeding mums i know) who started out breastfeeding the only two I know who fed until a year were the two who followed a routine from day one. All my other friends had given up by 6 months or earlier.
People too often think if they move to formula the sleep and behavioural problems will vanish but as I say in my book along with formula comes a routine.
Le gach dea-ghui, Tizzie
Pampers!!
Hi all:
Just to let you know and to say SORRY, I am no longer going to be able to supply you with pampers. I have thought long and hard about this and I feel I just can’t continue to supply my clients readers and friends. I truly am sorry I can no longer bring you Pampers. So once the stock I have is sold I will not have any more avaiable.
Le gach dea-ghui, Tizzie
Darragh’s Product of the Month
Comfy EasyPC Learning System
I love my new Comfy EasyPC computer. I finally have a computer just like Mummy’s! My computer is suitable for children from 12 months, but of course I am a bigger than that now! My EasyPC has large colourful buttons and friendly characters that help teach me and guide me through lots of great activities. The best bit is it has lots of different games that will last me until I am a least 5.
I think the EasyPC would make a great birthday or Christmas present or an especially good present for a new baby brother or sister to give to you when they arrive. Cillian gave me mine. I love learning with my EasyPC when Mummy is sitting down and feeding Cillian. Mummy talks to me about what I am doing with the PC while she feeds Cillian, I love when Mummy sits down to feed Cillian because I can use my PC and mummy gives me her full attention. (At least that’s what I think).
One of the great features about the EasyPC is you can set it in lots of different languages. This is especially helpful for those of my friends who might live in a bi-lingual house. You can play the games in UK or American English first and then after you have learnt lots of the things in English you can change the language to something different! I have learnt how to talk in sentences and have learnt all of my shapes and colours while playing with my PC. Daddy loves when I scroll the roller and two balloons blow up and then join to make one, the red and blue ones make purple and the blue and yellow balloons make green Daddy and I try to guess what colour they are going to make.
To find out more about the EasyPC and the other main features please click on the following link and have a look at the PC and the software/games that are available in Mummy’s shop. I know you will love it as much as I do! Link
