Welcome to the This Girl Loves Sleep podcast, the show that will help your entire family bring back bedtime. Each episode, sleep expert Alanna McGinn discusses your burning sleep questions and provides you with tangible sleep tips for babies to adults and provides tricks to help you create your own sleep plan for your family. Stay tuned for regular episodes also covering parenting topics Alanna wants to talk about featuring professional experts, colleagues, and friends.
Latest episodes
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7 min
068: Napping on the Go
The warmer weather can make things tricky with an increase in events, travel and an effort to get out and enjoy the great weather. It can be hard to find a balance between having y…
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31 min
067: Friendship - Heather Dixon - SavvyMom
Heather Dixon is a writer, a mom to three girls and the Editor-in-Chief of SavvyMom, a wonderful online Canadian parenting publication, one where I’ve had the pleasure of writing f…
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12 min
066: How Your Sheets and Blankets Help You Sleep
Have you ever wondered why climbing into bed and under the covers feels so good? Regardless of whether you like to sleep with just a light sheet or prefer the heaviness of a weight…
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26 min
065: Replay - My Story of Infertility
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month with October 15th being National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. 1 in 4 women will suffer a loss via miscarriage, stil…
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32 min
064: Natural Medicine - Lisa Marie Holmes RH
Lisa Marie Holmes, RH is a television personality and creator of The Botanical Apothecary herbal remedies line launching this 2020. As an entrepreneur, Lisa Marie is inspired to fi…
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19 min
063: 4-Month Sleep Regression
Sleep regressions. They’re one of the most challenging hurdles to overcome when you’re a sleep-deprived new parent. One minute you have this perfect, little gorgeous baby who sleep…
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20 min
062: Delaying the Crib to Bed Transition
Hearing the pitter-patter of tiny feet in the middle of the night can only tell you one thing. What you dreaded is reality. He’s climbed out of his crib. Even though you’re never t…
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28 min
061: Positive Affirmations - Anna Lozano and Lindy Sood
Anna Lozano and Lindy Sood are moms, bestie’s, and founders of Love Powered Co. They launched Love Powered Co on Kickstarter in 2017 - a soul fuel company, powering the next genera…
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16 min
060: Why Your Child is Stalling at Bedtime
Kids who never learned strong sleep skills as babies and toddlers are still struggling with sleep. In other cases, kids who were great sleepers can suddenly be faced with sleep iss…
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22 min
059: Replay - Spring Time Change
The evenings are getting lighter and that can only mean one thing. Spring Daylight Savings Time is just around the corner. Sunday, March 8th, clocks are turned forward 1 hour. I kn…
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12 min
058: How to Create a Successful Family Meeting
When someone in the family isn’t sleeping well, it can affect everyone in the home. And while it’s one thing for babies and toddlers to have some trouble with sleep and bedtime, it…
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21 min
057: Sleep Clinic #6
Sleep Expert Alanna McGinn dedicates this entire episode to her popular sleep clinic, where she chooses sleep questions submitted by you and answers them. On today’s episode she an…
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34 min
056: Parenting Expert - Kelly Bourne
As a Pediatric Registered Nurse turned parenting researcher, speaker, and writer, Kelly’s straight-shooting tips help parents navigate the bumps and WTF moments with their sanity a…
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22 min
055: Sleep Regressions
"Why is my perfect sleeper all of a sudden waking up and not going back to sleep?" Sound familiar? Sleep Regressions are unavoidable for our babies. Teething, illness, travel, even…
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38 min
054: Replay - Stop Taking Sleep for Granted
It’s the start of the new year and all we see are posts on social media on the new diets that will be tried, the best cleanse to start, or how you all joined a gym, that you’ll lik…
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14 min
053: Replay - Toddler Holiday Sleep Hangover
Now that things are starting to settle, and your normal routine is starting to fall back into place, something still seems slightly off...that something is your toddler. It’s a tal…
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28 min
052: Replay - Sleep Tool #4 - The Methods
Our 4th sleep tool is choosing the method - the way we can finally break any final sleep associations, and wean out and final night feeds. You may be asking yourself, why are we on…
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23 min
051: Replay - Sleep Tool #3 - Bedtime and Bedtime Routine
Sleep Expert, Alanna McGinn introduces our third sleep tool, which is a bit of a combo. Today she discusses the bedtime routine followed by an age appropriate bedtime. Get ready fo…
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17 min
050: Replay - Sleep Tool #2 - Lengthen Naps
The second sleep tool in the Good Night Sleep Site Tool Kit is working on consolidating naps. Hands up! Who is struggling with 30-45 minute naps? Nap struggles are probably the mos…
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24 min
049: Replay - Sleep Tool #1 - A Perfect Baby Sleep Environment
Making sure our babies sleep in a safe, conducive, and consistent sleep environment is important and the first sleep tool in the Good Night Sleep Tool Kit. Sleep Expert Alanna McGi…