Our fact-filled radio programme on the very lovely Women's Radio Station is now a podcast for you to download and enjoy. Click on Freddy the SleepGeek Baby to go straight there.

We're very honoured to have been asked onto the amazing Women's Radio Station to chat about sleep with the fabulous Carolyn Van Beers. We are going to be talking about why we need sleep as well as issues around babies, toddlers, bedtime battles and teenagers and sleep. While planning the show I got thinking about my own children's sleep habits at bedtime. We had our ups and downs and my eldest in particular had many years of real difficulty getting to sleep as an adolescent.

Sleepgeek Lou Toosey is also a brilliant baby massage teacher who is much in demand. If you are in West London contact us to get on one of her courses. She recently did a wonderful baby massage lesson for This Morning's Youtube channel with presenter Sharon Marshall and her baby Betsey. We find that introducing a regular baby massage session into the nightly bedtime routine helps with calming and building positive sleep associations, as well as being a wonderful bonding and c

I'm still spitting tacks about a new American book for parents...

Lou and I really enjoyed visiting Stepping Stones nursery in Gayford Road, W12 last term and talking to some of the lovely parents about how sleep works. We all noticed how everyone came in clutching a huge mug of coffee..."spot the sleep deprived parents!" observed one mum! The session is full of facts about sleep. One fact which I felt was met with a bit of astonishment was that we, the SleepGeeks, suggest keeping bedtime routines down to not more than 45 minutes long. Yes,