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That's right, I said it. Your baby will never sleep straight through the night. And neither will you, for that matter. This isn't due to stress, caffeine, lack of exercise, or any other factors that can contribute to a lousy night's sleep. It's a normal, natural part of the human sleep cycle.

Is your toddler not sleeping at the nursery? Judy Clark provides you with three tips to find out why your toddler doesn't get better sleep at nursery.

Teaching a child healthy sleep habits is a combination of lots of different things. Of course, there is no secret, but that doesn't mean there are no shortcuts. With that in mind, today I'd like to share 7 different shortcuts you can start trying over the next few nights to get your child sleeping better.

Here's another edition of 5-Shot Friday by Peter Kim. It talks about last minute healthy gift ideas, extinction rate, life lessons & eradicating sleep debt.

Our little ones need our expertise and authority to guide them through their early years, and probably will for decades after that. This is especially true when it comes to sleep.

A surrogate mother often faces criticism and judgment from others for the choice she have made. However, those are less problematic when compare to the risks that she takes for her own family, friends and spouse. These risks can be daunting and cause challenges she might not have considered before getting involved. These risks can be anything from medical and health concerns to finances and job security and often family and personal risks as well. Medical risk is a huge factor, when a woman becomes a surrogate often times, she and the donors would have to undergo intense examination. These exams range from blood, health tests to the initial process of the implanting of the eggs from the donor. In the beginning the clinic will bring her and the egg donor together to begin a lengthy process of sequencing ovulation cycles. The clinic would put the surrogate mother on birth control and steroids, such as Luprin. These medications are meant to get both the surrogate mother and the donor's cycles on the same schedule. This is crucial because the surrogates' uterus needs to be ready for the embryos. Just having to deal with the pain of insemination and testing can be unbearable, not to mention the unpleasant side effects from all the medication and actual insemination process. However, that is just part of it. The surrogates are also faced with depression, sleep disturbance, guilt and the difficulty to remain unattached. These factors alone cause many surrogates to face the fact that they are walking a long road that not many others might have the strength to do. Many clinics offer support groups and counseling. Aside from medical and emotional risks, there might also be legality issues with the laws of the state they reside in. What kind of laws protect the surrogate, what rights does she have to things such as privacy? And there are also finances to consider. Generally, surrogate mothers are responsible for all insurance costs. As a surrogate you should be financially