When you understand your newborn’s sleep patterns and habits, you can start to establish a little more structure in your daily life and build a little more confidence in your decisions and actions during the baby’s first days. While newborns can’t stay on a strict sleep or feeding schedule – mostly due to their many growth spurts in these early months – these sample newborn sleep and feeding schedules can guide you through these stages and make sure everyone is getting the sleep and nutrition
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What You Should Know About Newborn Baby Sleeping Patterns
Before I had children, I remember thinking (based on my very limited experience with babies!) that newborns slept all the time. Most of the newborns I'd see would be fast asleep in their strollers, in their carseats, in their slings, or in their moms' arms, at any given time of day. When I had a newborn of my own at home, however, I learned that my observation was only partly true. Yes, newborns do sleep a lot - but they don't sleep for long!! What's that about, anyway? Why are newborns