Does napping more during the day lead to a better night’s sleep for babies?
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How Babies Sleep
Helen Ball (Cornerstone Press (UK); Balance (US))
Like many mothers of young children, I have spent a lot of nighttime hours reading about baby sleep on the internet. I’m fluent in the lexicon – from wake windows to split nights – and the frustratingly impossible exhortation to “put your baby down drowsy but awake”.
I approach all these concepts as I would in my day job – looking for evidence, or at least some semblance of scientific plausibility. Both can be hard…
