This is the big one right?! Every new parent’s nightmare is the baby that has trouble sleeping during the night (and day).
While these fantastic videos won’t give you an exact guide for each day (and night), they will help you understand your baby’s sleep patterns.
You’ll learn about “normal” sleep behaviour and why sometimes it’s hard to stick to a schedule. You’ll also find out about development change and growth spurts.
These five videos will give you the insight to get through the newborn stage. Think of them as your shoulder to lean on during those 3am feeds.
A perfect course for desperate parents to understand sleep and newborn behaviour. You’ll be more relaxed and able to work with your baby, rather than fight against them.
After all, your new little person has their own ideas about how things will be!
While these fantastic videos won’t give you an exact guide for each day (and night), they will help you understand your baby’s sleep patterns.
You’ll learn about “normal” sleep behaviour and why sometimes it’s hard to stick to a schedule. You’ll also find out about development change and growth spurts.
These five videos will give you the insight to get through the newborn stage. Think of them as your shoulder to lean on during those 3am feeds.
A perfect course for desperate parents to understand sleep and newborn behaviour. You’ll be more relaxed and able to work with your baby, rather than fight against them.
After all, your new little person has their own ideas about how things will be!

Sleep psychologists Dr Hayley and
Dr Brooke
Our resident sleep psychologists help explain infant sleep changes and patterns especially at birth, week six and four months.
These fantastic videos help explain infants sleep and what it changes rather than how you can control it. Sometimes understanding what is normal helps make things easier.
Midwife Sara
This useful video helps you to understand that baby sleep can be challenging and what can help.
These useful stratgies can make the nights easier with some simple tips and tricks.
Expert advice
By now you’ve probably heard all sort of well-meaning advice from all sorts of well-meaning people. And you’re wondering whose opinion to listen to. Learn about baby sleep patterns from the experts. You won’t find magical cures, but you will find honest, practical guidance you can apply straight away.
Family support
Our advice goes beyond help for you as a new mum. We know that your partner plays a vital role in parenting a newborn. We give them specific information to help them help you.
Self-paced videos
Find out about your baby’s sleep and development at your own pace. Tune into to our expert video at a time that suits you. Because we know newborns can be unpredictable.
How it works
The guide is an e-learning course with all the information you need about your baby’s sleep patterns. Our experts give you help and advice to support you through the newborn stage.
Video
Our experts deliver professional advice in video format, so you can learn what you need to know, when you need to know it.
Resources
Check out our other step-by step guides related to infant and post-partum care, from feeding, to sleeping to milk supply.
Online community
Join likeminded parents in our Facebook Community. A place to ask questions and get support.

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Ainsley
A great course for mum breastfeeding or wanting to mix feed. The formula information helped me understand what I was choosing.
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Connect with the specialists you need, when you need them.

Kate Phillips
Clinical Director
Kate works privately at O&G in North Adelaide and publicly at WCH where she holds a senior position in the Women’s Physiotherapy Unit. Kate has a special interest in women’s health and pelvic floor rehabilitation.


Dr Anneliese Perkins
Obstetrician & Sonologist
Dr Anneliese Perkins strives to provide compassionate and professional obstetric care for women during pregnancy and childbirth, working with women and their partners to facilitate a successful and enjoyable birth process.


Kelly Ainsley
Teacher
Baby Sensory provides ideas for creative play, massage, tummy time, movement, and music in simple practical ways that can be easily repeated at home.


Claire Foord
Founder
In Australia, Stillbirth is the leading cause of infant death. Many of these deaths are preventable. Still Aware’s mission is to end preventable stillbirth through awareness and education.


Dr Briony Andrew
GP Obstetricians & Lactation Consultant
Her current professional passions are obstetrics and mother-baby care during the first year of life with expertise in the areas of breastfeeding medicine, infant sleep, unsettled infant behaviour and maternal anxiety and depression.


St John
Volunteers
St John is a volunteer based organisation run entirely for the wellbeing of the South Australian community. They have kindly helped produce these videos to support new parents with great first aid and CPR information.


Sarah Rist
Sleep Consultant / Registered Midwife
As a qualified child sleep consultants and mother to our her precious little people, Sara brings a wealth of professional skills, knowledge and personal understanding of the many highs and lows that are often associated with being a new parent.


Dr Nathan Judd
Anaesthetist
As a Specialist Anaesthetist, Nathan Judd is an integral part of the Adelaide Anaesthetic Services team, providing services to around 60,000 people in South Australia’s private hospitals every year.


Brooke Michell
Psychologist
Brooke Michell is passionate about assisting people to bring about positive change in the sleeping patterns of their children, and feels that these changes can be gradual and respectful to both the child and their parents.


Dr Hayley Dohnt
Clinical Psychologist
Hayley is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked for many years assessing, treating and researching sleeping problems.


Jodie Benveniste
Psychologist
Jodie combines positive psychology, spirituality and practical experience to guide and mentor parents to get to the true heart of parenting.


Rebecca Sabine
Physiotherapist
Beck is a Women’s Health and Pelvic floor physiotherapist. Her passion is in helping women with dysfunctions such as incontinence, weakness, prolpase or pain, to regain confidence in their bodies and remain physically active through life.


Dr Chris Hughes
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
Dr Chris Hughes is an Obstetrician and a Gynaecologist based in the Northern Suburbs of Adelaide. He is committed to providing education and support for all his expectant mums.


Dr Paul Lang
Paediatrician
Paul has over 15 years’ experience as a consultant paediatrician, largely in private practice in Adelaide. He enjoys immensely the diverse spectrum of general paediatric medicine, ranging from new-born to adolescent care.


Rebecca Brook
Massage Therapist
With many years of experience, Rebecca teaches baby massage, pre and postnatal massage, Aromatherapy and many other specialist services. Recently she has become an acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine specialist.


Dr Anthony Chitti
Paediatrician
Anthony has particular interests in childhood learning, developmental and behavioural problems as well as neonatal medicine. He provides neonatal care at Calvary Hospital North Adelaide and Ashford Hospital.


Donna Mansell
Midwife & Lactation Consultant
Donna is the founding Director of MotherNurture and The Baby Manual, offering 16 years’ experience as a Registered Nurse/ Midwife and Lactation Consultant.

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