Knowing how much sleep your baby needs can be confusing when your neighbor's newborn baby sleeps 17 hours a day and your friend's a toddler sleeps 13 hours a day. Setting your expectations is an important first step. Occasionally, I'll get e-mail from parents who believe their 6 month old baby should nap three times a day for two hours each time and while there are a few babies who need this much sleep, not many do, or if they are napping this much, they most likely aren't sleeping as much at
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Baby Sleep Needs by Age
I am working on a sleep training series where I will outline the various methods, from no-cry to cry, but I don't think it makes sense to write that until I have written out how much sleep we can expect our babies and toddlers to get. If our expectations are too high, we could be trying to sleep our children too often (yes I'm using "sleep" as a verb!) and it will become frustrating for everyone. If our expectations are too low, we might not sleep our children often enough, they may become