Wondering how to help your baby stop crying and start sleeping? Come find out alongside Angel Laketa Moore (@thatchickangel) why healthy sleep habits are so important to cultivate early on.
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At birth, babies will sleep randomly. And there seems to be no predictable pattern to it. They sleep a lot of hours, they sleep about 18 hours. Babies are feeding very small stomachs, they need to be fed more often. When we talk about babies, probably the most common reason they wake up at night is because they're still being fed at night. And the family has to decide how much feeding they will be doing and how much nursing you're going to be doing. But the babies that are sleeping, so called through the night, are breastfeeding less.

Babies start emerging the circadian rhythm by the time they're one week old and by the time they're about six weeks old, they'll have a much more predictable pattern as far as when they are awake and when they'll be asleep.

I think the first thing you wanna do is have the parents have a healthy routine, it's very tempting for parents to try to adapt themselves to the baby. But in reality, the baby is born sleeping randomly and the baby is primed to actually adapt to the parents sleep cycle.

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