How we write, review and correct our guides

The people behind each guide

The Actually Sleeping team drafts our content, drawing on the sources listed below and on what we see again and again while coaching families. Each guide is checked for accuracy by Dr. Sam before it is published, and again at least once a year afterward. You can find her credentials, license and NPI on her profile. She is a pharmacist rather than a physician, and wherever that distinction matters, the site states it plainly.

Where we draw the line

• We will explain the connection between medications and sleep. We will not tell you how much to give an infant; dosing comes from your pediatrician and the product label.
• American Academy of Pediatrics safe-sleep guidance is followed with no exceptions, and we will not describe any practice that goes against it.
• When we talk about our own service, we stick to facts. The guarantee is quoted directly from our Terms of Service, review counts are kept current and linked back to where they come from, and because every plan is custom, we do not publish prices.
• When we compare ourselves with others, competitors are named fairly, and we point families to them when they would be the better choice.

Where our claims come from

For anything medical or safety-related, we rely on the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Library of Medicine (LactMed included) and peer-reviewed research indexed in PubMed. Any guide making claims of that kind closes with a numbered list of references that link out to those sources. Our coaching advice, by contrast, comes from clinical experience with 700+ families, and we label it that way.

Who publishes this site

Actually Sleeping (Actually Sleeping LLC) owns and publishes this site. Its purpose is to give parents accurate answers and, when coaching makes sense for them, to direct them to a free consultation. There is no advertising here, we take no sponsored content, and we never sell data.

Reporting a mistake

Spotted something wrong? Send the page and a note about the problem to sam@actuallysleeping.com. We fix factual errors within five business days and update the review date on that page.

This is not medical advice

What you read here is general information written for parents. Your child’s pediatrician is the authority on your child’s health, and nothing on this site replaces their individual advice.