Editorial policy

Authorship

Every guide is written by Mara Ellison and carries her name. There are no unattributed pages and no bylines invented to make the site look larger. A guide written by anyone else in future will carry that person's name, their qualifications, and what they were paid.

No part of a guide is generated by a language model and published unread. If a model is used at all, it is for a task like checking that a link resolves, and the result is verified by hand.

Sourcing

A guide is not published until every clinical claim in it is attached to a source a reader can open. Sources appear at the foot of the guide, linked, with the publisher named. The hierarchy used to rank them is set out on the method page.

Where a claim rests on clinical practice rather than research, the guide says so in the sentence, not in a footnote. Ranges drawn from practice are described as ranges drawn from practice.

We do not cite a source we have not read, and we do not cite the same paper for two claims it does not make.

Review

Each guide is checked against its sources twice a year. The reviewed date on the page moves only when the text changes, so it is a record of the last edit rather than the last glance.

A guide is withdrawn if its central claim stops being supported. Withdrawn pages are not deleted: they stay at their address with a note explaining what changed, so that anyone who bookmarked it can see why.

Corrections

Send corrections to hello@sleepschedulelab.comwith the page address and the sentence in question. Corrections that include a source are handled first.

Factual errors are corrected within a week and noted at the foot of the page. Disagreements about interpretation are answered by email and, where they change the text, noted in the same way.

Independence

The site carries no advertising, no affiliate links, no sponsored posts and no paid placements. No brand has ever paid for a mention and none is planned. Where a guide refers to a product category, it names the category and not a shop.

If that changes, it will be stated here before it appears anywhere else, and the disclosure will sit at the top of the affected page rather than in the footer.

Medical disclaimer

This site is educational. It does not diagnose, treat or replace a consultation. Speak to your paediatrician, health visitor or midwife before changing anything if your baby was born early, has reflux or breathing difficulties, is not feeding or gaining well, or has a developmental condition.

If your baby is unusually difficult to rouse, has a fever with lethargy, or is breathing abnormally, get medical help rather than reading a sleep article.