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Meredith Brough is a mother of 5, a a pediatric sleep consultant, instructor and coach to sleep consultants. She founded Sweet Slumber in 2017 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In 2022 she began teaching other professionals about her methods and fell in love with coaching them in marketing and mentoring them in their work.

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Podcast

Watch or listen to "The Sweet Slumber Podcast: Baby-Centered Sleep" on Youtube, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Click below to listen & don't forget to subscribe and review!

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Blog

Learn exciting and helpful tips from Meredith's weekly blog posts. Keep up with the blog to learn about Baby-Centered Sleep solutions, how to meet your child's needs, insight from podcast episodes, sleep consultant guidance, and more!

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Meredith's Resources & Recommendations

This section has been carefully created and curated by Meredith herself! Be sure to keep coming back to see what's new in the world of tiny sleep!

Online Articles

Meredith's articles are packed with life-changing perspective and powerful advice for parents of infants and young children. Read the resources below to move forward with your sleep goals.

5 Signs that Sensitivity is Affecting Your Child's Sleep

Do you have a sensitive baby? Unless your infant is highly sensitive, it can be easy to miss signs of sensitivity. But even a small amount of sensitivity can affect a baby’s sleep and other areas of day-to-day life. For this reason, it is important to learn if your child is sensitive and understand how it is affecting them.

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Riding the Separation Anxiety Roller Coaster

Between 4-7 months, babies start to realize that they are separate from their parents (instead of thinking they are one person). At this age, disappearing from your baby’s sight can cause distress or they may simply notice your absence. Separation anxiety can be a normal part of development for little ones. But it can look different for each child, depending on their temperament and the way they feel from day to day.

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Understanding Sleep Regressions

In my experience as a sleep coach, sleep regressions seem to be widely misunderstood. If you would like to empower yourself with important insight about the causes and signs of sleep regressions, what your child is feeling during these times, and the impact of regressions on sleep, continue reading. You’ll also learn what your child needs from you, how to support optimal development, and ideas for improving sleep during regressions.

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4 Essential Truths New Parents Need To Know

You need a deeper understanding of your baby’s nature and needs, as well as information about the common difficulties of postpartum. This knowledge will empower you and build your confidence as a parent. Parents claim that these 4 essential truths changed everything for them!

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What Causes Bedtime Battles and What Can I Do To Improve Them?

Do you want to learn valuable tips to improve bedtime for your baby or toddler? Read this article to learn lots of helpful insight! Don't forget to use the code SWEETSLUMBERTIME to buy your Dreamland Baby weighted swaddle, sleep sack, or blanket for 15% off!

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A Gentle Approach to Sleep Training

Are you thinking of ways to sleep train your baby so you can get good sleep yourself? We asked sleep consultant Meredith Brough from Sweet Slumber to provide us her thoughts on how you can do this peacefully! From www.Tealbee.com

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Teaching Your Child Strong Sleep Habits

When it comes to building sleep habits, there are some strong advantages, but also disadvantages, when working with children two years or older. It can be simpler to teach them new skills and they may learn quickly. Learn tips on improving children's sleep peacefully. From www.tealbee.com

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Q&A with a Child & Infant Sleep Consultant

Iowa City Mom's Blog

Meredith's tips and tricks have been proven successful time and time again, and we hope that you can find help for your families after reading through her answers to some of the most frequently asked questions that she receives from parents struggling to get their kids (and themselves) a good night’s sleep. From the Iowa City Moms Blog.

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Media Interviews

Listen to these interviews to hear the Sweet Slumber story & some of the lessons that Meredith learned as a young mother. She also shares valuable sleep tips & insight, & explains how to work with challenging children.

(This section is under construction. For newer interviews, look up "Meredith Brough" on your favorite podcasting app. There are several more available!)

The Honest Mom Podcast with Michelle Mansfield "The Walking Dead to Successful sleep Solutions" with Meredith Brough

Sleep. It's one thing we can't do without (at least not gracefully) and the one thing that seems to elude us after becoming a parent. Thanks to people like Meredith Brough, there are solutions out there that can help restore sleep for both you and your baby.

The Honest Mom

The Heartship Journey Podcast: Episode 33: Life’s Colorful Journey with Meredith Brough

Meredith shares her life journey and experience in which she calls “colorful”.

She shares about her childhood which included frequent moves and changing of schools and how her upbringing impacted the vision she had for her own family and children with a desire for them to have connection and talk as a family.

Meredith shares some of her experience in major moments in US history too!

The Heartship Journey Podcast

You Need a Counselor Podcast Featuring Meredith Brough

On the podcast with Julie and Chrissa this week is Meredith Brough, sleep coach and owner of Sweet Slumber. Meredith works alongside parents, infants and young children who have sleep struggles, as well as expectant parents.

You Need a Counselor Podcast

Crushing 40 with Kimberly Love, Featuring Meredith Brough

Kimberly Love's mission is to empower and inspire women to overcome the struggles of life and to live the life that they have always dreamed of. She covers stories of self-care, business/entrepreneurship, relationships, dating, mindset and plenty of real-life stories from inspiring people who have moved mountains and continued dreaming.

Learn about Meredith's important work and dreams for the future in this episode! Listen on Spotify.

Crushing 40 on iTunes

The Collaborative Healing Spot, "Peace over Pressure" with Brittany Rose Green & Meredith Brough

Host Brittany Rose Green teaches how to have those difficult conversations with respect and integrity while also honoring the fullness of our feelings in the moment. Meredith shares her perspective on this subject, too.

The Collaborative Healing Spot

Instagram Live, "A Gentle Sleep Approach" with Tara, owner of Dreamland Baby

Meredith shares answers to her top 5 questions about sleep. Listen to find out what's different about her approach and learn many unique & effective sleep tips! Use coupon code SWEETSLUMBERTIME for 15% off.

Dreamland Baby

Real Talk with Tonya Sakowicz, "Peaceful Sleep Training for Challenging Babies"

Why are some babies more challenging than others? How do you overcome these challenges and build sleep habits? Find out how to work with your challenging baby to build sleep habits peacefully, from sleep coach Meredith Brough.

Real Talk

Gotcha Mama Podcast-with Amanda Bennett "How to Raise Resilient Children with Meredith Brough"

How do we teach our children to be resilient when all we want to do is protect them? That's what my guest Meredith Brough and I discuss in this episode.

Gotcha Mama

Choose Unstoppable with Kerri Macaulay Featuring Meredith Brough

Meredith Brough is a gentle sleep coach for young children and is changing the way parents approach sleep training. She brings so many entrepreneurial lessons to this episode ranging from how to thrive while feeling alone in your goals and dreams to dealing with fears around charging premium prices for your services.

Choose Unstoppable

Recommended Products

These products are recommended by Meredith, her clients, and Supported Sleep Group members

doTERRA Essential Oils & Diffusers

These are pure, trusted, safe essential oils! doTERRA also makes the best diffuser that is safe for the nursery. Meredith recommends buying lavender and roman chamomile or a citrus oils and adding 1 drop of each to the water inside the Petal diffuser, which runs for 12 hours! You and your child will both experience more peace!

doTERRA website

Homeopathic & Natural Teething Remedies

For teething, try these remedies on Amazon:
Camilia drops
Hylands tablets
Wellements baby tooth oil
Zarbees Natural Gum Gel

Relief for Colic, Reflux, Gas, Constipation, & Pain

Use these products to help your child feel better. (Chat with us to find out safe ways to use gripe water):
Colic Calm Homeopathic Gripe Water
Colic Calm with Gas Drops
Wellements Gripe Water

Magnesium Oil Lotion for growing pains and restless legs

Dreamland Weighted Swaddles & Sleep Sacks

Dreamland Baby makes our favorite swaddle, sleep sack, and weighted blanket. They are safe to use, and science backed. This could be your key to easier regressions! Click on the icon to get 15% off.

Dreamland Website & Discount

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