Swaddles and Wraps
Finding The Best Swaddle
Swaddling a newborn can help baby to calm, relax and settle ready for sleep. Swaddled babies will typically sleep for longer and wake less f
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newborn
Newborn Sleep
Welcome! Your precious bundle has finally arrived after 9 long months. But she cries all the time, catnaps for 30 minutes, likes to party all night! No-one told you it wo
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Advice for New Parents & Parents To Be
Getting ready for a new baby can be overwhelming. There is so much to prepare for, things to buy, books to read, rooms to arrange. All that on top of growing a little hum
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Using Essential Oils Safety During Pregnancy, Breastfeeding & Around Newborns
With much gratitude to Gillian Parkinson - Clinical Aromascience Practitioner (NZQA, IFPA, ITEC) at Le’Esscience
Essential oil overview
Essential oils are a compli
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Which Breast Pump is Best – What to Consider When Buying a Breast Pump
So you’ve decided you’ll be pumping milk after baby is born, but where do you start when trying to choose the best breast pump? From single or double to elec
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Swaddling Over a Sleeping Bag
We often get questions about how to use a sleeping bag and wrap together, while babies transition from being swaddled.
This is also a useful technique for babies who have
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When Dad Returns To Work
By Logan Donnelly @KiwiDad
As a new parent, life can be transformed dramatically with the arrival of your little one. It's an incredible moment, but it's not all
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How Dads Can Help with a Newborn in the 4th Trimester
By Logan Donnelly @KiwiDad
The fourth trimester (the 12-week period immediately after you have had your baby), is one of the most monumental transitions either pare
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Blind Cord Safety
Blind Cord Safety
Baby and child safety is very important to us here at The Sleep Store. So we are very happy to support the education campa
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Alternative Baby Shower Gifts
Whilst it’s lovely to give and be given physical gifts, such as clothes, swaddles or body care items for your newborn baby, sometimes, you can have too much of a go
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How to Choose a Safe Cot Mattress
Buying a cot and mattress is one of the biggest purchases you’ll make when setting up your baby’s nursery. It’s also one of the most frequently used i
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Catnapping Solutions for Newborns
One of the most common requests we get at The Sleep Store is to help babies sleep longer during the day. Not only are most babies not rested after a 20 or 45 minutes sle
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Babywearing with a Ring Sling
For thousands of years, in cultures across the world, parents have worn their babies in slings (and other types of carriers like today's front packs).
Western 'civilisat
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The What, Why & How of Breast Pumping – Common Pumping Questions Answered
If you’re new to breast pumping or haven’t pumped before it’s easy to be overwhelmed with the ‘how to’. How to start pumping, how to incre
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Breastfeeding tips and FAQs
We at The Sleep Store are passionate about helping new parents navigate the bumpy journey of parenthood and breastfeeding can be a bumpy ride indeed.
With
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