On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep

become more predictable for you and your baby, and your planned pattern of routine feedings with your baby ...

Mobiles: Moving, musical mobiles help your baby learn to track with his or her eyes. Gym: Crib gyms ...

2½ hours. NOTE: During the first two months, if your baby is not napping well, try cutting back on his waketim ...

appropriate duration, which may only be a total of forty-five minutes including feeding time, and she shows ...

Your baby will drop his late-afternoon/early-evening nap at around six months of age, leaving two naptimes ...

most likely is not getting enough sleep. Even though he or she may cry, your baby will probably go rig ...

much time should be devoted for a nap in a 3-hour cycle? In a 4- hour cycle? Summarize the three “Wake ...

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When Your Baby Cries Your baby cries and the world around you dims. You know that baby wants to tell ...

chemically activated stress hormones from the body. Parents are most affected by a baby’s cry. We can as ...

philosophy calls for the suppression of all crying. Thus, greater value is placed on suppressing a child’s cry than ...

emotionally stable. Marisa’s mom has been bombarded by clichés: “You can’t hurt a baby by picking her up ...

piercing cry may be a signal of either internal or external bodily injury. Such a cry, if persistent, ...

b) immediately after feedings; c) at times when baby wakes early out of a sound nap. Crying during any o ...

sound sleep with a strong cry, it may be the result of a combination of any of the three factors mentioned ...

Normal Crying Periods Other than the abnormal cry periods just discussed (which always require your prompt a ...

of hunger or pain, or because her diaper is wet.”^5 Identifying and knowing your baby’s cry patterns ...

grandchildren. Instead, healthy, continuous naptime and nighttime sleep was the norm. Without knowing your chi ...

asleep. If you have a baby who becomes exceptionally and continuously fussy, consider the possibility th ...

should intervene and when you need to hold back. What is this called? It is called parental assessmen ...