Keys to Infant and Toddler Sleep with Eliza Parker

Ep 35 : 
Eliza’s work helping babies sleep, move, and feel better revolves around her respect for babies and toddlers as whole people who enter the world aware, desiring to communicate and learn, and with the ability to process and self-heal within relationship. 

Her Conscious Baby practice employs unique approaches to non-cry-it-out sleep, baby-led milestone development, healing birth trauma, and parental attunement to non-verbal cues and crying.   

As a certified Aware Parenting Instructor, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, and trained Feldenkrais® practitioner, Eliza’s life-changing perspectives and respectful solutions toward common parenting challenges transcend “typical” parenting advice.  

In this conversation you will hear us talk about: 

• The emotionally charged nature of sleep in the family system 
• The connection of sleep and emotions 
• "Sleep is a state, not a skill" 
• Pent up feelings as stress as most common problem that interferes with sleep 
• Crying as a natural way to release stress 
• How learned habits of emotional expression can feel like instinct 
• The connection of parents early childhood experiences and patterns with their babies 
• Getting beyond the right or wrong of comfort nursing 
• Exploring the underlying needs connected to sleep : emotional expression, closeness 
• Crying in arms as a bonding experience 
• Potential of crying becoming a pathway for communication 
• The potential impact of cranial alignment and tongue tie on nursing, crying, and sleeping

Check out Eliza's website for free guides to helping Baby sleep and to stay in touch : https://www.consciousbaby.com/sleep/ 

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