Hosted by Heather Boyd · 🇺🇸 US · EN-CA · 70 episodes
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Hello tired parents! If you feel exhausted and overwhelmed about your baby’s sleep and are trying to be gentle and responsive but aren’t clear how, welcome!In this podcast, we go beyond wake windows and bedtimes to help you understand your baby’s sleep so that you can find responsive ways to support it…without sleep training!The Baby Sleep Connection also explores all the layers connected to baby sleep --maternal mental health, nutrition, temperament, sensory processing, gentle/responsive parenting, and infant development so that sleep (and life!) feels easier. I'm so glad you're here.
Heather Boyd hosts The Baby Sleep Connection: Holistic help for tired, responsive parents who don't want to sleep train, a kids show with 70 episodes published.
Heather Boyd, Occupational Therapist and developmental infant sleep coach gets honest about the things that may be driving you mad about baby sleep. And when the reality of baby sleep conflicts with what we’ve been told,
If you’ve been giving yourself a hard time for not staying calm, have a listen. Perhaps being calm is overrated. It feels so good to stay calm, but calmness doesn’t always fit the situation. It’s also simply part of the
To start 2026, I’m joined by a guest whose story brings new perspectives around surviving and thriving in parenthood. Stephanie Woodward is a not-for-profit CEO, attorney, proud disabled woman, and mom to six children—in
Sometimes health and medical issues get in the way of how sleep development unfolds. In this episode, Heather Boyd discusses why airway and obstructive sleep apnea are so important to understand, common signs parents may
New Years Eve, and New Years Resolutions land differently once you’re a parent. The idea of setting resolutions and goals for oneself in the usual ways may not fit at your season of parenting. And that’s ok. Instead, let
In this episode, we break down what newborn sleep really looks like in the first week—especially the shift from the sleepy first night to the cluster-feeding intensity of night two. You’ll learn what’s normal, why it hap
If you identify as a highly sensitive person, wrap yourself in your favourite blanket, grab a tea, take a deep belly breath and listen in on this episode. Psychotherapist Nelia DeAmaral chats with occupational therapist
As the parent of a new baby, you know better than anyone that newborn sleep is different. For Heather Boyd, occupational therapist and mom of 3, there likely was nothing that could have prepared her for the interrupted s
In this episode, Heather Boyd, O.T., mom, and sleep coach, explores why babies drop naps, why it can feel so difficult, and what to do to make it easier. Even though dropping naps is a normal part of development, it can
Heather Boyd, occupational therapist and mom of 3, shares ways that separation-based advice backfires and what to do instead. When parents get advice that involves separation without any focus on attachment, it can block
In Part 2 of Sleep Emergencies, Heather Boyd, occupational therapist and sleep coach, explores a shift she has seen in her private practice away from “preventing” sleep challenges towards more sleep emergencies, and incr
What is a sleep emergency? How is it different than difficult sleep that needs coaching. And when is it a mental health emergency requiring medical attention? Heather Boyd, occupational therapist and certified infant and
Sleep associations often get a “bad wrap”, being labelled crutches or bad habits. In this episode, Heather breaks down what a sleep association is, what it isn’t, and how to appreciate the role sleep associations have in
Laila, mom of two and host of the popular Learning To Mom Podcast, shares her personal story about discovering what prenatal depression is and why she has come to understand that prenatal depression may have been part of
What if your baby’s sleep was a language you just haven’t become fluent in yet? It can be frustrating to try to figure out what interrupted sleep, resistant naps, or frequent waking are telling us. But if we start lookin
Have you been doing “everything right” with your baby’s schedule, following a rigid instructions of a nap and bedtime schedule you found in a book or online and still feel like sleep isn’t working? Listen to 3 key perspe
Whether you are a first-time mom or have multiple kids, there are a few things Heather would want to share with you over a cup of tea (or decaf Americano) to make sleep development easier to navigate. Listen in as she re
Angela Sacco talks with Heather about how to give birth through the perspective of yoga. In the interview we talk about: How sounds during labour support opening of your cervix (and what sounds to make) Breath, and its r
You Ask, I Answer! Join Heather as she answers questions about how to bridge to the next connection without interrupting the bedtime routine, and how to problem solve 2 hour bedtimes. She covers: What is bridging to the
Join Heather Boyd as she talks to Carrie Bennett, a health educator in the emerging field of quantum biology, about using light to optimize health and sleep. Carrie has a background in biology, nutrition and body work. H
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