Sleeping and Waking

After an initial period of wakefulness after birth, many babies sleep deeply until they are twenty-four hours old. They rouse only briefly and may not be very interested in feeding; others are just the opposite, waking, fussing, and feeding frequently.... Read more

Newborn Sleeping Basics

Newborns sleep a lot – typically 14 to 18 hours a day during the first week and 12 to 16 hours a day by the time they are a month old. But most babies do not stay asleep for more than two to four hours at a time, day or night, during the first few... Read more

Sleeping

New babies sleep exactly the amount that their personal physiology tells them to sleep. There is nothing that you can do to make your baby sleep more than this amount and nothing that the baby can do to sleep less. Unless he is ill, in pain, or extremely... Read more