Newborns need 14 to 17 hours of sleep a day (8 hours during the day and 8 at night) but can't stay awake longer than 1 to 2 hours at a time and newborn sleep patterns change rapidly. If newborns generally eat, poop, and sleep around the clock in the early days, what does a newborn's sleep schedule look like? This post shares sample newborn sleep schedules by week, information about your newborn's sleep patterns, and tips to help get your newborn sleeping. You can peruse all the newborn sleep
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Baby Not Sleeping? You Might Be Surprised to Learn Why!
It's no secret that we at The Baby Sleep Site are dedicated to helping parents help their children to gently fall asleep independently, and take long restorative naps. If your little one is waking up in the night or mid-way through their nap, chances are they need to let go of sleep associations or adjust their schedules to combat over-tiredness. Learning to sleep independently and having an ideal sleep schedule are two of the most important factors to helping your child get the sleep they
How To Get My 14, 15, or 16 Week Old Baby To Sleep
Previous: How To Get My 11, 12 or 13 Week Old To Sleep Congratulations! You’ve just completed your “4th Trimester” otherwise known as your baby’s first 3 months ex utero and helped your 11, 12, or 13 week old sleep. What does this mean? For many babies it means they begin waking up more at night or have difficulty napping. Uh oh! So, it’s no wonder one of the most common questions we get here at The Baby Sleep Site® is "How do I get my 14, 15 or 16 week old to sleep?" While some babies can
Quick Tip: How To Tell If A Nap Transition Is Approaching
Picture this. You've just settled into a nice, predictable daytime sleep schedule, you're feeling good about life, and then, before you know it, your baby gets a little older and blows your perfectly-crafted routine to pieces. I’m positive a lot of you know exactly what I’m talking about (even those of you who've never been able to establish a nap schedule.) The first few years of a child’s life are full of changes, and those changes add up to mean ever-shifting sleep patterns and
4 Tips To Prevent The End Of Daylight Saving Time From Ruining Your Child’s Sleep
Daylight Saving Time tends to be a big topic here at The Baby Sleep Site®; we start getting e-mails in the Helpdesk up to a month before it ends, asking for suggestions on how to help babies and toddlers 'fall back' and adjust to the time change. After working with many, many, many families to adjust to new time change schedules, we've learned a thing or two about how to make the transition a smooth one. And that's what we are talking about today! In this article, we'll outline
Bedtime: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know
Bedtime - depending on your situation, this word either sounds like music to your ears or sends a shiver down your spine! Most of us know from experience just how tough bedtime can be. Far from a calm, gentle wind-down before sleep, for some families, bedtime is alternately a battle of wills, a scream-fest, a marathon hours-long affair, or an eternal game of whack-a-mole in which you're constantly fetching glasses of water and making trips to the potty. So how do we get from nightmare
2 Quick Tips For Making Tough Daycare Nap Schedules Work
You don't have to have school-aged kids at home to enjoy the back-to-school season! But we here at The Baby Sleep Site® know that back-to-school season can be tough - if you have older kids, you have to work on reeling in your summertime schedule and get more serious with bedtime and morning wake-time, for example. And many of our moms of babies and toddlers tell us that fall is the season when daycare schedules shift - babies "graduate" to different rooms as they get older, and that can
10 Must-Know Baby and Toddler Nap Facts. (#7 May Surprise You!)
We've written quite a bit about baby and toddler naps here on the blog, so if you've been following our site for a while, you've had the chance to read a lot of baby and toddler nap tips and tidbits. But, some of you are new moms or new to The Baby Sleep Site® and we strive to educate all of our parents on the importance of good sleep and how to achieve it! Today, we're presenting you with 10 must-know facts about your baby's or toddler's naps. Think of it as your nap "cheat sheet". ;)
Sleep Training Boot Camp, Part Five: What You Need To Know About Nap Training
New to Sleep Training Bootcamp? Check out our overview page to find out what Sleep Training Boot Camp is all about, and to catch up on past Boot Camp articles. BOOT CAMP, PART FIVE: What You Need To Know About Nap Training Boot campers, if you are hanging in there and sticking with Sleep Training Boot Camp, then I have just one thing to say to you - YOU ROCK! I know it probably hasn't always been easy, and that the last few weeks have likely been at least a