The team members here at the Baby Sleep Site® work hard to stay on top of the latest news and trends related to sleep - particularly baby and toddler sleep. It's important to us that we're always using current research, recommendations, and best practices in our work with families. So when one of our sleep consultants passed a local news story about an emerging sleep trend along to the rest of us, we were eager to read it! Imagine our surprise, though, when we read the news headline: Parents
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Don’t Sleep, Be Fat…Maybe
Time Magazine reported that a Harvard study (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-causes/sleep-and-obesity/) concluded that too little sleep in babies and toddlers might be linked to obesity. And, they said TV viewing heightened the effect. No surprise there. At first I was skeptical about this study of the link between sleep and obesity. After all, we are also living in a fast food era, watch hours of television, sit behind a computer for hours blogging, tweeting, and