2 Months | Developmental Milestones
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children (75% or more) can do by a certain age. These milestones and parenting tips for your two month old have been provided by the CDC. What Most Babies Do By 2 Months Social/Emotional…
Read MoreSleep Coaching In Philadelphia
So, you’re tired. You’ve somehow accepted the fact that sleep deprivation is a rite of passage for new parents, even though you really really really want sleep. Guess what? Sleep deprivation does NOT have to be your reality. After years of serving families across NYC and NJ, we’ve recently expanded our services to the Philadelphia…
Read MoreProfessional Development
Professional Development by Devon Clement Are you a sleep coach, doula, NCS, nanny, or one in training? In addition to serving families directly, Happy Family After is proud to train and support sleep coaches everywhere via our online training. Check out our current professional development programs below, and contact us with any questions or requests…
Read MoreFinding Your New Normal. 7 Practical Tips For New Daddy After Childbirth
It’s normal for dads to find it hard to cope with the first few weeks and months of being a dad. It is a new experience that many first-time dads have no way to prepare for. Even if you’ve tried to get prepare for months in advance it can still be a challenging role…
Read MoreThe Problems with Anti-Sleep Training articles
I had another discussion today in the usual echo chamber of “anti CIO” parents. The same tired arguments (see what I did there?) came out, and the clucking and tsk-ing over parents who are so mean and selfish as to do something so horrible to their sweet innocent baby. Unfettered judgment like that immediately makes…
Read MoreI don’t know what “Cry It Out” is.
*IMPORTANT NOTE: For the purpose of this conversation, the babies I’m talking about are healthy, growing appropriately, and 8 weeks and older. NOT NEWBORNS or babies with feeding or health issues. That’s a whole different ball game with an entirely different set of rules. CIO. “Crying It Out”. Sleep Training. “Gentle”. “Traumatic”. “I don’t believe…
Read MoreThe Lost Art of Talking on the Phone
Anyone who knows me knows I love to talk. I can strike up a conversation with anyone – gas station attendants, waiters, other people on line at the grocery store – and of course, I love talking to my friends. Back in the day, before cell phones, I was on my cordless phone (that I…
Read MoreI wish I had a doula when I fostered my first kittens!
You are handed a tiny, precious being, born to this world very recently. You are completely in love. Authoritative medical figures come in with packets of paper and tons of information, and tell you lots (and LOTS) of things about this little creature, but mostly a list of safety rules and all the things you…
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