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2 Week Old Newborn Development: Peek-a-Boo! Your Baby Sees You! Baby staring at you like she’s had one too many margaritas? No worries, she may look a little loopy, but she’s fine! Even though she’s still too small to focus perfectly on your gorgeous face, she definitely knows it’s you staring right back at her. [...]

3 Week Old Newborn Development: Baby Love Your baby may be keeping hours like a security guard on the nightshift, but this will change in the coming weeks. Gradually she’ll start sleeping through the night. Maybe not quite the 12 hours straight you’re dreaming of, but at least long enough for you to finish that [...]

After 3 kids, and advice from my hubby’s native Autie. I learned of the benefits of The Ancient Art of Swaddling! This is a tried a true baby calmer. If you say pish, posh, my babe can’t stand to be swaddled, can;t stand to have his arms not within sucking range. Then you have not [...]

Everyone is giving you good advice: Swaddle her and put her in a bassinet beside your bed. Swaddler blankets are really nice, they make swaddling a breeze. Music helps my daughter, so she sleeps with my mp3 player on the nightstand next to her. Always put her on her back to sleep, SIDS is most [...]

My first DD did this for the first 3 weeks of her life – it was horrible. I feel for you – I was tired and overwhelmed – I hated the thought of evening and night coming…then one afternoon I sat on the sofa after feeding her and laid her on her belly over my [...]

Can we just talk about this sleep regression? I talk a lot here about the 4-month sleep regression (when you feel bewildered and bleak), the 8-9-month sleep regression (when you feel defeated and hopeless), and the 18-month sleep regression (when you feel insulted and irate). But I haven’t talked much about the 3-year sleep regression. [...]

Cat writes: “You’ve written a number of times about sleep regression at four months and eight months. Since we’re a few weeks away from four months, I was wondering what exactly is sleep regression? Are there theories as to what causes it, like some developmental milestone that all kids hit at the same time? How [...]

Countless parents come for help with their 4 month old’s sleep. Why? This article will explain why “good” sleepers sometimes turn “bad” around the 3 or 4 month old mark. How baby sleeps in the early weeks When a newborn falls asleep, she immediately goes into deep sleep (also known as REM sleep, but I [...]

Baby Sleep Aid We’ve all heard that babies mostly sleep but that is not necessarily true. If your baby mostly slept you wouldn’t be reading this article. My first son was a horrible sleeper who stumped several sleep book authors and both sleep behaviourists we hired. While you can’t force a baby to sleep, you [...]