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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6 Must-Have Products for Better Baby and Toddler Napping
Baby naps are, by far, one of the most talked about and searched topics here at The Baby Sleep Site®. We all want our babies and toddlers to take longer, more restorative naps, don’t we? After all, “sleep begets sleep” and a baby who naps well is more likely to sleep well at night, too. So what can we do to encourage our babies and toddlers to get the naptime sleep they need? There are a few tools you need to encourage better napping in your baby or toddler. First and foremost, you
Feeding Schedule or Feed on Demand?
There are different theories about daytime feeding and the link to nighttime sleeping. Babywise is one of the books that popularized the thought that if you can help a baby go longer between feeds during the day, the baby will sleep longer stretches at night. But, attachment parenting advocates recommend feeding on demand, when your baby is hungry. Which method promotes better nighttime sleep? Feeding on a Schedule The benefits of a feeding schedule is that it is predictable for both
Sample Toddler Sleep and Feeding Schedules [Free]
As your baby grows into a toddler, they still need a lot of sleep and many toddlers take long and luxurious naps. This post shares sample toddler sleep schedules by month. If your toddler is having trouble napping, you may be interested in my toddler nap tips. You can peruse all the schedules by scrolling down or use the quick links below. You may also want to bookmark this page for future use. Quick Links: 12 Month Old Schedule13 Month Old Schedule14 Month Old Schedule 15 Month