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Young children who sleep less eat more, which can lead to obesity and related health problems later in life, reports a new study by UCL researchers.

The study found that 16 month-old children who slept for less than 10 hours each day consumed on average 105kcal more per day than children who slept for more than 13 hours. This is an increase of around 10% from 982kcal to 1087kcal.

Associations between eating, weight and sleep have been reported previously in older children and adults, but the study, published in the International Journal of Obesity, is the first to directly link sleep to ene...

It’s something that parents crave like nothing else, a good night of sleep. However achieving this is sometimes easier said than done. Don’t you wish there was a simple way of grabbing information just as you need it.. quickly, easily and accessible in the middle of the night (with a gentle light that you can take with you?) The Safe Sleep Space team have created a mobile phone ‘App’ that might just get your baby to sleep tonight!

When you’re in the pressure cooker world of settling a new baby into sleep routines your nerves are jangled, your thinking skewed and your reasoning is shot to break...

If ‘toddlers and sleep’ sounds like a contradiction in terms, have a read of these tips from Caroline’s Angels.

We sometimes wonder if the words ‘toddler’ and ‘sleep’ belong in the same sentence. It seems that we interact with many families that experience sleep difficulties with their toddler.

Some families explain that their toddler has never slept well and they have now decided to address their child’s sleep. Yet others tell us that as a baby, their child slept wonderfully and the difficulties that they are now experiencing are new.

There are many reasons why toddlers either do no...