Thursday thought – Baby’s Normal sleep 😴 💕
This information sheet summarises research-based evidence about normal infant sleep, and how it develops over time.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/isis.online/ISIS_normal_2015.pdf
It is important to remember that babies operate according to their own internal biological rhythms and they are unaware of what their parents are being told. It often takes several months for a baby’s day-night pattern of wake and sleep to become established. During this time many parents just need reassurance that their baby is normal, and that their baby’s sleep patterns are developing as expected. In cases where we are unhappy with our infant’s sleep development it may not be the baby that is problematic, but our expectations regarding sleep and babies’ needs.
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