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EP. 47: Why Your Child Isn’t Sleeping (And What Sleep Is Actually Doing for Their Body)

Most parents have tried everything—earlier bedtimes, blackout curtains, melatonin, white noise machines. Their child is exhausted but wired, awake for hours, and no routine or supplement can override a nervous system physiologically locked in fight-or-flight.

In this episode of Motherhood Aligned and Assigned, Dr. Serena Coffman and Dr. Veronica Schiltz reveal what 35% of US children aren't getting: enough sleep. But it's not about bedtime—it's the nervous system. Sleep is one of the most active healing states (brain organizing learning, growth hormone surges, immune system building…

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